00:00:00.000I think a lot of the confusion firstly comes from obviously race and things of that nature.
00:00:08.960But when we're talking about race and religion, a lot of people do come from the idea that there is some sort of universal and all-pervading divinity that supersedes nations, supersedes cultures, genetics, everything.
00:00:24.080just this overarching kind of global or universal which is the proper term but universal in the like
00:00:31.600the literal sense um of faith and a lot of people don't the first hurdle that they have to tackle
00:00:38.960whether they are uh white or black or red or yellow or whatever color is that they the idea of
00:00:47.360ethnicity with faith and for some groups it's easier for us to digest this um if you were you
00:00:54.400know talking to a um perhaps uh you know like someone in west africa or um perhaps maybe like
00:01:01.840an indigenous um tribesmen or something like that it would make a lot of sense that their folklore
00:01:08.560and their stories and things uh reflect them they see their the divinity their gods in direct
00:01:14.560connection to them and um they set boundaries about where that the divinity interacts with them
00:01:22.080uh as opposed to say others or things of that nature what they they might represent in the in
00:01:27.680the grand chemistry of everything um so i think that's the biggest problem that a lot of people
00:01:33.760have to to get past and if they can understand that there is this applies to you know groups
00:01:41.360of people in and at large and that we as a group promote that all people seek to do this then it
00:01:49.200starts to i think change the volatility and the hostility of the idea behind it um and so if you
00:01:57.280don't see that the ability for people to have their ethnic like makeup and their language and
00:02:04.800their culture as definitive parts of their faith then you know it's like are you a universalist
00:02:11.120and if you are then that's something you should contend with that that in reality no one has any
00:02:17.360sense of those building blocks being part of the religious makeup um and and so that should apply
00:02:24.320across the board and when people get kind of posed with that they suddenly go i don't i don't think
00:02:28.640that's right and it's like well congratulations you know you're the equivalency of what we use
00:02:35.120the word is folkish and so that's our language for it and that's our you know the word in our language