People with ๐ง๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด don't embrace all the items on their tribal checklist. They look at separate issues as separate issues. Indeed, it is my reason for disliking extreme political partisanship, it is a syndrome. Are their lots of people who fall into those syndromes? Yes, of course, but assuming it about others maintains the divide. Who does that serve?
As for having a ๐ง๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ, I try to not make assumptions from that either. I consider it of course but it is not a decider. If it was, thanks to my memory of adult homosexuals offering me money for sex when I was fifteen, I'd be making an assumption about you that I suspect would be unfounded. My memory of the violence of the black guys from the projects that I went to high school with carving people up and beating them down in packs would have me thinking things about Steve that are untrue. Our memories are a limited subset, not the whole. That's where bigotry is found.
The reference to assumptions about reading the Bible cover to cover indicating that the reader is a Christian was a reference to a bad assumption. I don't know the actual number, but I suspect that many become atheists while reading the Bible critically. As an aside, I am well read on world religions, but that wasn't the point.
Jul 1, 2022
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