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When we treat a portion of Christians as speaking for all Christians and their rhetoric is of domination and certainty, we all become its victims.

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When we misunderstand each other, is it always a mistake? Or something to fix? Sometimes we work hard to keep misunderstanding each other. On purpose.

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When the public is chilled by an assassination attempt, our responses can be reactionary, ill-conceived, and quite dangerous.

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The thing about being literal is that we think we’re being accurate, but we’re often being pedantic. And refuse to see it.

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We have to start preparing ourselves to proactively adapt for the future to put less pressure on our future selves.

Here’s what I mean about the struggle we have with recognizing things haven’t always been this way.

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Our brains have a natural capacity to adapt. But we often use this natural capacity to refuse to learn, or pretend we were always right.

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We’re driving the very concept of “literal” to such an extreme that it is becoming meaningless. And we’re all actually avoiding the truth.

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The way we see the world is full of optimism and pessimism. It is also full of blindspots and assumptions for how things will be.

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The long, strange history of the call to being different is now mostly found in chicken-little cries of oppression and demands for hegemonic culture.

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Many of us have become so disconnected from what it means for the state to respond to protest—for we cannot kill for peace, or for safety.

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