[H]atred and tribal violence is endemic to the human condition. Cain slew Abel, and it's been downhill from there. (Rod Dreher)

[H]atred and tribal violence is endemic to the human condition. Cain slew Abel, and it's been downhill from there.

Rod Dreher

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