It always comes back to that. “My beliefs are better than yours, therefore you must believe them to. And woe unto you if you refuse.”

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one’s own sense of superiority, as well as an increasingly archaic idea in our modern world. We live in multicultural, pluralistic societies. And the people who are outraged by that are the same ones going around trying to convert everyone by hook or by crook, in service to their superiority.

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Evangelism is explicitly a weaponization of identity and social dominance, and it always has been. It’s about enforcing uniformity across a society under the belief that homogeneity creates stability. Which is true, to a degree, but the explicit seeking of that homogeneity is both an expression

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from an academic perspective. But I’d also hazard the statement that I understsnd it a little better than the average person: at least tne role that different Christian traditions have played in the development of western social structure and expectations.

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I’m not religous at all, so it doesn’t bother me in that way. To me it’s a demand for cultural assimilation and the abandonment of the aspects of my identity that make me Jewish, which have nothing to do with my belief (or lack thereof) in God. I’m a historian, and I find Christianity fascinating

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