“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of
that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he
does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either
opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries
from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what
they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who
actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and
persuasive form.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
“In Chapter 77, you had people of totally different worldviews and ideas joined together,” says Patrik. “You had, for example, democratic socialists on the one side and fervent Catholics on the other side. It was totally normal for me that as a small child, I was being raised in a community of people with very different opinions. So it shattered the bubble around me.”
The lesson of valuing diversity within a broader unity of shared goals is something that Christians today need to embrace.
“When we look at what’s happening in America today, we see that you are building walls and creating gaps between people,” he says. “For us, we are always willing to speak, to talk with the other side to avoid building walls between people. You know, it is much easier to indoctrinate someone who is enclosed within a set of walls.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not By Lies