![]() ![]() If our commitment to diversity is more than skin deep, we must cultivate deep friendships with smart people with whom we fundamentally disagree. But our society seems to be losing the art of debate within friendships, and we instead surround ourselves with people who think like us. Indeed, I debate hardest with the people I respect the most, because I take their ideas seriously. (45)ĭisagreement is not evidence of disrespect. If you care about diversity, don’t dismiss Christianity: it is the most diverse, multiethnic, and multicultural movement in all of history. Read the New Testament, and you will find that trying to marry biblical Christianity to white-centric nationalism is like trying to marry a cat to a mouse: one is designed to hunt the other, not mate with it. The idea that Christianity is a diversity-resistant, white Western religion of privilege is utterly irreconcilable with the New Testament. Indeed, calling Christianity “Western” is like calling literacy “Western.”. While Christianity held a monopoly on Western culture, Western culture never held a monopoly on Christianity. ![]() ![]() Turn this data on its head and the trend toward secularization in America is a public-health crisis. In general, religious participation appears to be good for your health and happiness. But to say that religion is bad for you is like saying, “Drugs are bad for you,” without distinguishing cocaine from life-saving medication. We need only open a newspaper to see that religious beliefs can cause harm. ![]()
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