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[Also: For Every Minister Who Struggles With Your Prayer Life] Also: For Every Minister Who Struggles With Your Prayer Life | [View online]( [Christianity Today Direct Newsletter]( Tuesday, September 26, 2017 BOOK REVIEW [Alan Jacobs: Hating Your Neighbor Will Make You Dumb]( How tribalism and culture-warring have ravaged our ability to think. Stephen Backhouse We're alarmingly content to retreat into cultural bunkers, adopting a scorched-earth, winner-take-all mentality and a violent attitude toward argument and disagreement. Debate becomes warfare, thinking becomes a weapon, and people with opposing ideas become enemies who must be dehumanized before they can be defeated. In such an atmosphere, changing one's mind is an act of betrayal, and friendship with the opponent is treason. Jacobs thinks this is detrimental to society because "it prevents us from recognizing others as our neighbors, even when they are quite literally our neighbors. . . . 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