But you also apparently can't say the Book of Mormon might be a valuable/useful cultural symbol without triggering militant atheists so

This sums up the loss I feel over Mormonism because the type of belief system I *actually* find valuable in the religion would get me excommunicated for preaching it.

Not because it's heinously evil.

But because the ingroup bigots have a monopoly on who gets to be a valid "Christian/Mormon"

So many people in the Western world still look at this through a Christian lens. That either it’s true or it’s not, and if not, it is useless.

Well, no, because in many interpretations of Judaism, faith and belief are some of the LEAST important aspects of being Jewish. There are atheist rabbis!

In Houston, you can get these spectacular spicy jalapeno sausage cheese kolaches made by Vietnamese people. That's American greatness! Nazis could never!

The most American shared value is looking at your neighbors doing something you've never seen before and going HEY THAT'S NEAT TELL ME ABOUT IT.

Diversity isn't easy! It's a challenge to make a functioning society when not everyone looks, eats, worships, and thinks the same way. But it's also a super power!

Homogeneity is a death sentence for culture.