Eli: no, generosity is too conscious. This is a cognitive bias. More like what you have in mind!

Joel: right on. And then at some point you’ve got to figure out where to stand up for yourself. Sometimes I’ve failed in that, too.

Thanks for your words, friends.

You cannot suspect others usefully unless you first suspect yourself.

It gives me much glee to read a piece entitled “giving bad directions” that discusses religion’s imperfect relationship with reality. I also associate religion with a loose respect for facts and a requisite degree of gullibility, but probably in a different sense from you. ??

Maybe your “gullibility” is more a hermeneutic of generosity.