It's the division that's killing me

The pandemic has been rough on everybody in some way. That's a guarantee. The thing that's killing me is the division. *Everybody should be wearing a mask vs. Nobody should force anybody to wear a mask.

*Everybody should get vaccinated vs. Nobody should say what goes into my body. *People who care about others get vaccinated vs. People who see past political facades stay unvaccinated. *People should be forced to vaccinate for the greater good vs. The government should never have the right to force vaccinations. *People who are unvaccinated are the reason this pandemic is still here vs. The truth is not being told about what dangers vaccinated people are facing.

And so on and so forth. That's not so incredibly different from the normal flow of whatever is going on in the world, even if it's a little more intense. What I'm really struggling with though is people within my own religion tearing people to pieces over these differences, publically saying how wrong the other side is, how right they are, who's the wheat and who's the tares, etc. It's fine to disagree. My experience in life almost makes me feel like a disagreement ambassador. People have always disagreed. They will always disagree. You can disagree without dividing. It just requires both sides respecting the other. What I see is many saying, "That's fine. You can have that opinion" and then saying or posting things to other friends belittling the opinion you have or the conclusions you've drawn.

I see people posting about disagreements they've had with people on social media and "I just wish I could get them to see it this way" type of comments. Why? If you feel so comfortable with the conclusions you've come to, why do you have time and energy to spend attacking somebody's conclusions that are different? Don't you have other things to worry about? You can belong to the same religion, come to different conclusions about many social or political issues and neither one of you have to be labeled right or wrong, righteous or apostate, caring or careless, humble or proud, etc. Really respecting and loving other people means that you still hold them in high regard, even if they have different opinions and approaches. You don't suddenly put them in a category of "people who are wrong or less or unrighteous or whatever". I'm just exhausted from the division. That's all.