I’m beginning to write again. Though I’ve learned a great deal in the time between my de-conversion from Christianity to my current beliefs, I have not recorded any of my intellectual evolution to this point. Only in sparse commentary on Facebook posts or Reddit boards have I revealed (in an outward manner) my worldview. I’ve been through periods of credulity, skepticism, belief, confusion, and bitterness; all locked between my ears. But recently, a trend has emerged among those people with whom I spend time. People in general seem to have, in my experience as a 31-year-old white male living in the American South, become more openminded. I acknowledge that the data set from which I draw this conclusion is based on my own unique, subjective experience in the world, so it cannot be completely generalized. But my observation of the ‘Other’ in society (anyone *other than* myself) is what leads me to this hypothesis.