I find the question - and the answers - very interesting.
But even more interesting was my response to it: I was raised Christian through high school, was born-again in college, and when it came time for me to find my own path, carried very little baggage, least of all images of hooded figures, etc & so on.
In fact, I find that I'm far enough out of that box now that I can't believe any intelligent person would stay in it. My perspective has changed so much that anyone who claims to know the Mind of God through the reading of His Own Words, and then interpreting them in modern political lexicon, as though they could possibly understand what it was like to be a first-generation Christian in Jerusalem under Roman rule...I can't stand to be around them. I turn off the CB, leave the room, whatever.
What is your baggage, or did you not bring any?
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