One factor is that paganism is tolerant of adding additional gods, practices, or beliefs to your mix. From a pagan standpoint, adding in Christianity wasn’t a big deal, but Christianity was not similarly tolerant, they weren’t cool with you keeping your pagan gods. Plus their belief system had the threat of eternal damnation and the promise of heaven to motivate you.

Ok, I’ll be wrong, I think it’s my turn.

Male ducks are horny little fuckers, it wouldnt totally shock me if ducks pollinated it.

Maybe they are the same in your accent and different in mine? Speech be funny that way.

I usually hear twot / twaht.

Do the candy corns melt into the pizza?

It seems really lame to airgap a system and not have some rigorous way of preventing USB infection. Isn’t that a really well-known vulnerability?

The way you used pronouns, ‘they’ and then ‘we’, suggests you are asking if they become a new person in the eyes of us who haven’t died. Is that really what you meant?

It’s usually the influence of the Darkness that prompts people to put hotdogs in a toaster. Don’t listen to what it tells you about the bathtub either.

I don’t classify ideas in my head into those two categories like that. They are all beliefs. I have a sense of how confident I am of each idea. Like how surprised I would be if they were proved wrong. And I try to maintain awareness of why I have that confidence, like other beliefs that support it, evidence, etc.

That’s imperfect, like I can’t claim that there aren’t ideas that, if challenged, I’d think about what my supporting evidence is and come up with bupkis. Anything is up for doubt and reevaluation.

I feel pretty strongly that this is the right approach, and that people failing to have a similar approach is a serious problem in the world.