[John Asherah]

You were told that God created all, but chose only a single people by the very ones who claimed sole favor.

Can you still wonder at the root of vicious religious intolerance?

Or why hatred even now returns to that self-important group which believes themselves alone to be the purpose of the entire universe?

Nothing worthy and universal can rise when founded upon such self-obsessed quicksand.

Those who once killed for absolute conformity, now demand tolerance.

When proof is inaccessible, dispute is only divisive, not revealing.

By discarding the selfish impulse, we together ascend as one.