Science has beliefs and people believe in science. Should they? Is this what was meant by freedom of belief? 

Wasn’t that one of the basic freedoms we learned at school?  Or was that freedom of speech? Or thought? Or worship?  But then speech and thought and worship are all close companions to beliefs.

I am a champion of freedom of belief and freedom of thought. So I am sensitive when these freedoms are under threat. And they are. Freedom of belief is not being threatened from the pulpit or by church-backed governments these days.  We have moved on.  Instead, it is under threat from science and politics.

Let’s leave political ideology for the moment, where people demand that politicians proclaim beliefs and they hypocritically comply.  This is so obvious and silly. 

Let’s focus on science instead. Whiter than white and disdainful of political shenanigans, science has become the new political correctness. More...

I am who I am.  But who am I?  And the same applies to everyone.  Identity means being the same.  But social life is about everyone being different.  We do grow, but in many ways we stay the same as we grow.  That is why we feel we can be ourselves and are stressed if a situation seems to make that unsafe.

THEE has a particular take on identity.  It could be viewed as an identity-specifying taxonomy. Overall, it is about our identity as human beings.  But in every part of it, we find that there are sharply different ways of being human. Inquiring, prospering, deciding, communicating—all these everyday activities and more have an identity stamp.

As a result, we want to do something More...