My Tribe's Better than Your Tribe
On this 12th Sunday of St. Luke, we confront the common spiritual sickness of predh=judice in the human heart. And at the heart of that sickness of self-centered pride is the sin of idolatry. What makes me hate those different than me is the false idol of my "superiority." Idolatry is anything or anyone taking the place of Christ from the throne of my heart.