we need to clarify the essential difference
between an unhealthy form of nationalism, which teaches contempt for
other nations or cultures, and patriotism, which is a proper love of
one's country. True patriotism never seeks to advance the well-being of one's
own nation at the expense of others. For in the end this would harm one's own
nation as well: doing wrong damages both aggressor and victim. Nationalism,
particularly in its most radical forms, is thus the antithesis of true
patriotism, and today we must ensure that extreme nationalism does not continue
to give rise to new forms of the aberrations of totalitarianism. This is a
commitment which also holds true, obviously, in cases where religion itself is
made the basis of nationalism, as unfortunately happens in certain
manifestations of so-called "fundamentalism".