It’s nice to see that there are still people out there able to see past and cut through the kinds of increasingly simplistic and Manichean binaries that define our times. I’ve been fighting this battle myself for awhile, in articles such as this, where I argued that race rather than racism is our principal problem:

https://medium.com/@Zoobahtov/hate-the-sin-not-the-sinner-675119cb2cc4

Your points about the unspoken, unquestioned and often untrue assumptions that underlie many of our sacred creeds are great and useful to keep in mind. Thank-you.