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- adjective Being or pertaining to a
divisive belief whereby those outside one's immediatecircle are regarded asenemies .
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Examples
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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.
Fr. Richard Rohr: Mysticism In Religion: Three Ways To View The Sunset Fr. Richard Rohr 2011
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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.
Fr. Richard Rohr: Mysticism In Religion: Three Ways To View The Sunset Fr. Richard Rohr 2011
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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.
Fr. Richard Rohr: Mysticism In Religion: Three Ways to View the Sunset Fr. Richard Rohr 2011
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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.
Fr. Richard Rohr: Mysticism In Religion: Three Ways to View the Sunset Fr. Richard Rohr 2011
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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.
Fr. Richard Rohr: Mysticism In Religion: Three Ways to View the Sunset Fr. Richard Rohr 2011
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If you have ever used us-and-them language to divide sets of people into "normative" heterosexual cultures and "others," you may be part of the reason Tyler Clementi is dead.
Gareth Higgins: Tyler Clementi's Death: We're All Part of the Problem Gareth Higgins 2010
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If you have ever used us-and-them language to divide sets of people into "normative" heterosexual cultures and "others," you may be part of the reason Tyler Clementi is dead.
Gareth Higgins: Tyler Clementi's Death: We're All Part of the Problem Gareth Higgins 2010
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It is a cause for sorrow at our continued inability to realize that there is no such thing as us-and-them, that whatever we do to cause harm to one will harm us all.
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If you have ever used us-and-them language to divide sets of people into "normative" heterosexual cultures and "others," you may be part of the reason Tyler Clementi is dead.
Gareth Higgins: Tyler Clementi's Death: We're All Part of the Problem Gareth Higgins 2010
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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.
Fr. Richard Rohr: Mysticism In Religion: Three Ways to View the Sunset Fr. Richard Rohr 2011
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