Thank you for such a thoughtful dialogue. I think I was responding particularly to the phrasing included in your original work that sounds like false victimhood - a stance that some have taken (hello Bill O’Reilly) that there is a conspiracy to suppress a Christians, when in fact, it is often assumed to be the ‘default’ religion and anyone who practices differently is deviant.

One thing I would love to see go away, as a former Christian, is the phrase ‘non-believers’. Mainly because people like myself very much believe in a deep sense of spirituality, I am not a nonbeliever, I just don’t believe the same things you do. This phrasing causes separation and insinuates superiority, where there is none.

In closing, I agree with you wholeheartedly, questioning and discernment is key (although often suppressed in many spiritual faiths). I too, have never studied any spiritual teaching where I believed everything.