I’ve always preferred the advice to Keep Your Identity Meta. I’m not an X-believer, I’m a person who processes evidence in way Y.
Yes, that’s still an identity, and it’s still about a belief complex, but it’s much more compatible with actually changing one’s mind.
(Y = “with intellectual honesty no matter what” helped me to leave my religion in a principled fashion, even before I came across this community.)
I’ve always preferred the advice to Keep Your Identity Meta. I’m not an X-believer, I’m a person who processes evidence in way Y.
Yes, that’s still an identity, and it’s still about a belief complex, but it’s much more compatible with actually changing one’s mind.
(Y = “with intellectual honesty no matter what” helped me to leave my religion in a principled fashion, even before I came across this community.)