I’ve always thought of it as the bull’s-eye of diabolical hatred, with each circle hating all those towards the middle, as they represent an antiquity they don’t understand, and a stubborn strength they envy. I don’t mean that everyone hates everyone, only that when hatred occurs, it flows towards the center.: The Jews in the middle, hated the most; even the secular Jews hating the Zionists and the orthodox Jews; then the Christian Catholics, then the secular Catholics, then the Christian Protestants, then the secular Protestants.That makes a lot of sense. (Though you left out the Eastern Orthodox, Non-Chalcaedonians, and Nestorians.)
Yes, I consciously left them out, because I was looking at relationships within a society, and I’d be too sloppy and poorly informed to bracket them amongst Western groups. I have a great empathy for the Melchites, and have been teetering back and forth about joining them.