Every movement has followers who take on the qualities of those they hate.

When you see the world in black and white, it’s easy to believe that anyone who disagrees with your “perfect” view must see the world as its exact opposite.

Most change is resisted through the perfect solution fallacy, where the arguer fails to realize that Solution B does not have to be perfect, it only needs to be better than the current solution. Progress is usually achieved through small, incremental steps, not perfect fixes.

When you see the world in black and white, it’s easy to believe that anyone who disagrees with your “perfect” view must see the world as exactly opposite of you perceived view.

To many, the Bible is like a Rorschach test: how you interpret it reveals your true character.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupidity is more dangerous than evil. He was right. ​The anti-Nazi theologian explained that stupidity doesn't mean a lack of intellect and why it's harder to battle than malice.

As an American, I think of this way than I wish I would.

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Trump's political rise was openly pandering to racists, claiming America stopped being great once a Black man was elected president and pushing the racist lie that the president was born in Africa. When he’s in trouble, he’s will revert to the same tactics that launched his career.

I often wonder if I fiercely love dogs because they are that great or because as a neurodivergent person, they accept me in a way the most humans won't. And if other people like me love dogs the way I do.

Never understood Christians who believe that Satan is the "prince of this world", getting upset that world doesn't bow to their version of Christianity.

When you see the world in black and white, it’s easy to believe that anyone who disagrees with your “perfect” view must see the world as its exact opposite.

Original sin teaches parents to see defect instead of love in their own children. Acceptance is withheld, love is conditional, and the child is forced to become a “new creature” to be tolerated. Who looks at a baby and thinks sin instead of innocence?

Hatred is usually never cleanly compartmentalized to one cohort. To keep up the us-verses-them mentality eventually every group becomes them.

Believing that the creator of a universe spanning billions of light-years cares only about one nation on one planet is less faith than arrogance.

We need a "Punisher" but for people that are mean to animals.