It’s time for us all to stop playing the Name Game

I know you. I know all about you. I know that you are Catholic and you are Jewish. I can therefore make decisions about the kind of person you are. I know that you, over there, are Mormon, and you in that corner are atheists, which tells me all I need to know about what you think and how you live.

It cues me in to your degree of goodness and moral character, and informs me if you need to live in fear.

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