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On Being Enigmatic

    People are comfortable with categories.  That's just how they are.   Categories help to take the guess-work out of life.  If you're a Democrat, you are pro-choice, pro-taxes, pro-LGBT, and pro-welfare state.  If you're a Republican, on the other hand, you are pro-life, support tax cuts, have Judaeo-Christian values, and want people to go out and get a job.  Sound familiar?  We complain about the two-party system, but when someone actually challenges it by failing to conform to one of these sets of ideals, we refuse to consider him/her a possibility.  Beyond that we love our musical, literary, and cinematic genres.  We love our simple, clear-cut, black-and-white categories.     The same, I have found, is often true of our theology.  You're a Baptist or you're a Presbyterian. You're a Methodist or you're a Catholic.  You can fill in the blanks with any "ism," "ist," or "an" you like.  It's not simply the deno...