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So in America, now, let us — Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever — fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one’s enemies. A tall order, that — perhaps the tallest of all. I for one will always fail to heed those words, but I know this: the America that was attacked out of a bright blue sky nine Septembers ago was its best self — and we now are our best selves — not when we rage against differences but when we honor them.