Few things are more dangerous to an egalitarian ideal than the concept of a chosen people, and the divide drawn by the early iteration of God's Church helped to exacerbate the many ideological faults that already underlay the landscape. When they chips were down, Tear's people were ready to turn on each other, and the fall of the Town was very quick, so quick that this historian wonders whether all such communities are not destined to fail. Our species is capable of altruism, certainly, but it is not a game we play willingly, let alone well . Erika Johansen
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This is a very pessimistic view of the early Church. The Church was founded on the belief that humans are equal, and that all human beings are created in the image of God. The early Church was based on ideas of love and forgiveness, rather than hatred and judgement. Tear's people were cruel because they were tribal. Most people these days are cruel because they are tribal.

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