Patricia Heaton
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It will be the first wedding, yes.
Yeah, I understand being a minority in a community as far as your belief systems go.
And I think if your focus of your life is,
is a spiritual one.
And you're called because of that to love other people.
I think that's the main thing is even the people that are harassing you, you have to feel some kind of compassion for the fact that they harbor so much hatred.
That's not a fun way to live.
And so just in your heart, try to think of them compassionately.
And that's helpful.
That's always been helpful to me, I think.
Great question.
I mean, I was just saying, you know, we see it now all around us where people's ideology has become their religion, their raison d'etre, whether it's far right or far left.
As I said, it's a terrible place to live.
It's terrible to live in all that anger and rage all the time.
And it leads to despair.
It leads to people making crazy decisions about their life.
that they have to leave the country.
I've seen people, it's just, it almost seems like a form of temporary insanity.
And I think when you don't have a foundational moral or spiritual rock to stand on, things like ideologies can take the place of that.
And then that becomes what you fashion your life after.