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Glad you got the uniqueness of fundamentalism out there right away.

Not sure if the average believer would catch all the subtlety in your final few paragraphs. I should mention a little while back you said something about “not wanting to argue” about proofs, or something like that. I get that, whatever I said I was using some shorthand for the complex discussion we were in. Anyway, here, the idea of seeking out truth where it takes them is somewhat foreign to religion. Religion is, almost by definition, about relying on tradition. I know they evolve, but they do so culturally, over generations, whereas science is designed to be questioned and rewards new ideas and the refutation of bad old ideas.

Sometimes, I think if all the religions just got together and tried to agree on that monolith, they’d realize they were all wrong, except when it came to value choices, like caring and compassion.