In some parts of the world, and not long ago in most of the world, the norm was to cast out anyone who was a little strange. In many places, the standard was to treat those people cruelly, as wicked, or as witches, accused of heinous crimes such as conversing with the Devil.
Now in many parts, we have the expression “It takes all kinds to make a world,” which is in many ways a reflection of the finest parts of the legacy of Christ, of Our Great Teacher’s message to treat all people with kindness. Even if we notice that someone is different, and we might not really understand their ways, we embrace the idea that they have a right to life as much of any of us.
This somewhat recent change in worldview is, in part, the cause of so much progress in recent decades. Looking at a man like Nikola Tesla, coming to the US as a foreigner, and a man with peculiar personal habits, he was accepted to an extent that enabled him to share some of his many gifts.
It does indeed take all kinds to make a world, and it is a much more interesting world because of it.
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