The Easy Way

It's easy to hate someone you've never met.
It's easy to lack compassion when you haven't experienced.
It's easy to be apathetic when you close your eyes.
It's easy to provide an answer even when you don't have all the facts.
It's easy to be depressed when you only have your own troubles.

I highly recommend the documentary Promises. It documents children living in Israel. You have twin boys who are secular Jews, a boy studying as an orthodox Jew, 3 children living in a Palestinian refugee camp (that has been there since 1946..so it's a refugee city), a Palestinian boy living in Jeruselum, and a few others. These children can tell you exactly why their country is in strife and they have very passionate feelings and beliefs. They hate each other. But, then they meet.
It is very easy to come up with your non-negotiables in life if you don't rub elbows with people unlike yourself. If you are pretty sure about most of your beliefs (I mean the ones that aren't in the Bible), maybe you haven't experienced life with people who suffer or haven't become friends with people who should be your moral enemy. All I'm saying is things aren't always so cut and dry. We are a sound bite culture. We think we should have an answer for everything. Life with the struggling and in the suffering world isn't easy, but it's where the Gospel comes alive.