Is President Obama secretly an atheist, who fakes being a Christian for political reasons?

[auburngrad82]

34. Unfortunately it's human nature to generalize

Generalizing makes it easier to put things in a box and makes it easier for us to understand. We're all guilty of it. I'm guilty of believing that conservatives are idiots. Obviously not all conservatives are idiots, but I generalize and my impressions of conservatives are tainted by my lumping all conservatives in the same category.

You're guilty by believing that being a Christian is a "bad thing" on DU. Obviously, with thousands of members, everyone on DU does not feel this way. I would venture a guess that it's not even a majority of DU users. But you generalize, just as I did above, that DU is anti-Christian.

There was a post yesterday where the person who started it implied that a majority of DU users would heckle Laura Bush. The actual poll that person referred to showed results of 74 individuals, a drop in the bucket when compared to the tens of thousands of DU users. They generalized, based on the responses of 74 individuals, that the majority of DU users were fine with heckling someone on the Right while professing to be horrified at the treatment of Michelle Obama by a heckler earlier this week.

The person who started this thread is guilty of generalizing that there are only two options- Christian or Atheist. It happens all the time and we all do it to some degree.

We all need to get beyond the labeling- myself included. There are way more important things than what religion you are, what color your skin is, or what your sexual preference might be. My priorities would be more along the lines of trying to keep Monsanto from controlling the world's food supply, Nestle from controlling the world's water supply (and I'm not being paranoid here- both Nestle's and Monsanto's upper management have publicly declared their intentions to control the food and water supplies), try to reduce the damage we're doing to the planet so that future generations aren't left with a cesspool for a planet, etc. I don't have any kids, so when my wife and I are gone we'll have nothing to worry about, but I feel that it's our duty to try to leave things a little better than what we started with.