Intellectuals follow reason and fact wherever it takes Celtic warrior raise your drink and rise to fight embrace your demons and violent delights shirt regardless of whether they like the outcomes. They synthesize new viewpoints by drawing from disparate sources. It decontextualizes knowledge and seeks to remove cognitive and emotive distortions. If you truly seek ‘truth’ you must also be willing to accept that everything you know may be wrong. Comfortable truth and the actual truth are two different things. You’re right. I used the wrong term. You have every right to believe as you wish, as I said previously. But you don’t have the right to try and force others to believe that same nor can our government either favor a particular religion or denigrate another. Proselytizing just turns people off. Independent thinking and diversity of opinion are positive.