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When Jacob Chanzli got dressed on the morning of January 6th,

he put on his red, white, and blue face paint, his postmodern quasi-native American horned fur hat,

and grabbed the spear to which he had attached an American flag.

Then he headed out to join his fellow warriors of light at the Capitol.

Okay, wait. He may have had a nourishing organic breakfast first.

By the look of his lean, shirtless, Norse pagan tattooed physique,

it was probably low carb.

I'm going to think out loud today about the concept of belief, more generally,

and specifically about the relationship between religious or spiritual beliefs

and our actions in the world.

My thesis is that beliefs are the opposite of trivial

and beliefs that carry and cultureated ultimate truth valences around morality,

politics, and spirituality have powerful implications on how we see the world

and how we act upon it.

When it comes to the common pluralist objection that

critiquing or debunking other people's beliefs is impolite

...