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Surely I'm stating the obvious but:

If you believe in metaphysical entities, and still manage to make physical, social peace relations the highest priority, based on a humanist moral that constrains your holistic vision for social organization and political institutions, then there is nothing wrong with there also being that part of you experiencing spiritual transcendence through personal faith in whatever metaphysical world feels real to it. But if you allow yourself to be led primarily by a part of you that believes there are metaphysical reasons to neglect and even destroy the peace relations in physical, social space, then your essentialist construal of reality is getting in the way of the sense perception your body uses and needs to survive. The Calvinist doctrine of original sin and the arbitrary perfection of a patriarchal god and "His" chosen "elect" vs. the damned goes hand in hand with the social Darwinism of capitalist logic and Friedman economics that consider preventable phenomena like homelessness and hunger the necessary evils of a "natural" hierarchy justified by an unquestionably moral, divine universal order. But in material terms, it is merely the tendency for autocracies to exploit potential democracies, and our ability to agree to construe it as such instead of as natural and necessary is how we can establish a basis from which to cooperatively act in the interests of a common good. It is important that we all figure out the narrative that we all share and can trust that we share it and are aware that we share it. There comes a point when the popularity of essentialist ideas becomes dangerous to the survival of our species, and when rejecting it, we have to make clear that this is the first and only relevant reason why we object to its dominance. It is not that a person is just... foolish or bad... for believing things that can't be sensibly perceived by everyone or commonly shared--it is that in order for us to all communicate and support each other's survival and our own, each person, to the extent possible, must also be able to see what CAN be sensibly perceived by everyone and commonly shared, and must understand why it is dangerous to lose sight of that.