Who has more in common?

[fantome profane]

Does one aspect of our identity override all other aspects?

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

For some people, sure. For most, not so much.

 

[icehorse]

Does one aspect of our identity override all other aspects?

Meh on the poll, but thumbs up on this question.

AFAI concerned, a big thumbs down to identity politics.

 

[Secret Chief]

Does one aspect of our identity override all other aspects?

Great poll. I voted Gay Bishop.

 

[vulcanlogician]

Does one aspect of our identity override all other aspects?

Nope. A gay atheist might have more in common with a straight evangelical nutcase than he does with other gay atheists.

That's not usually how it works. But the biggest gun nut and staunch 2nd amendment advocate I've ever known was a gay atheist. And that's saying something, because I grew up in rural Appalachia and have known several dozen religious gun nuts.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Such a complicated issue can only be settled using a Gayger counter.

 

[fantome profane]

Meh on the poll, but thumbs up on this question.

AFAI concerned, a big thumbs down to identity politics.

Perhaps it was a pointed poll, but the pointed poll perhaps made the point. I am pleased.

 

[Quintessence]

"Religious" is way too heterogenous of a category to meaningfully answer the question. It's about the most heterogenous category of human culture one can name.

 

[icehorse]

"Religious" is way too heterogenous of a category to meaningfully answer the question. It's about the most heterogenous category of human culture one can name.

But if we constructed a Venn diagram for the world's religions there would be a few almost universal overlapping ideas..

 

[syo]

The gay rel with the straight rel with the gay nonrel with the straight nonrel.

 

[PureX]

I think the more a person sees themselves as this or that, the less they will see themselves in others, and others in themselves. Let's just all be people, and we'll all have plenty to share in common.