January 3, 2023

When assessing an other's beliefs and views of "God", the ideas of the beliefs, these "realities" are so "ethereal", so distant to the shared daily physical, social, personal lives and minds, that they are hardly treated with much seriousness. Tolerated…even lauded, if the beliefs are not too embarrassing and/or loud.

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