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If one is going to insist that a practitioner of a set of beliefs answer for the history of that set of beliefs, what is to stop others from holding us to the same level of accountability and suspicion?
For example, many Americans talk about states' rights. But how many could lay out the intellectual, political, social, military, and cultural history of that concept and its many twists and turns? Should today's advocates of states' rights be held accountable for how that belief system has impacted adversely not only this country's history, but the history of the world as well?
My point is that we take grave risks if we set standards of inquiry and conduct for other peoples without holding ourselves to a similar set of rules.
My $0.02.
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