First and foremost, thank you to everyone who contributes to our discussion groups. It’s such a privilege to be with you all and serve you and Armin. This group is an opportunity for us to learn ourselves and viewpoints better, to bounce ideas and questions off one another and debate in a very special way. We are very fortunate!! I would like to propose an experiment, if you’ll indulge me! In the furtherance of understanding myself, I sought out ways to uncover my personal biases and understand what political categories I more strongly align with as I grow in my understanding of the world. I found two really neat quizzes that I want to request you consider taking! One is via a program called “Clear Thinking . Org” and it is a political bias test. The second (to be done in this order for best results) is a pew research quiz to find which political typology group you actually align with most. There is a group quiz option, but I thought I would present the links to you directly, and ask that you do them privately. It is less about the group knowing what your results are, and more about us growing as individuals and sharing what we learned about ourselves in the process. My hope is that we grow closer together and are more equipped to view politics and political discussion moving forward, when we have stripped away what we think we know/identify with, and reveal our most true alignments and intentions. Quiz 1- https://programs.clearerthinking.org/political_bias_test.html Quiz 2- https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/ *** Edit to add: We have seen how the IRGC and their proxies use emotions, misinformation and our own biases in the west to not only divide us, but to also manipulate us. Understanding ourselves better, and identifying those biases goes a long way to stripling them of the power they have over us! This is about so much more than knowing ones self, but protecting what we truly hold valuable and staying grounded and effective!! 💕💪🏼 ***

Babylonia (Falsely known as Iraq) was religiously diverse meaning in the North and East of Babylonia it was inhabited by the ethnic Iranian people known as the Kurds who were Zoroastrians, the Assyrian Christians were located in the North and West of Babylonia, the Pagans were located in the Center and South of Babylonia and there were Pockets of Jewish communities all over Babylonia mainly in the Zoroastrian areas because the Babylonian Jews felt closer to the Iranian Zoroastrians than the Assyrian Christians and Pagan Babylonians Fun Fact: "Baghdād" is an Iranian name which literally means "Lord-given" it comes from the prefix Lord- (Bagh-) and the suffix -given (-dād) this is because under the 4th Iranian Empire of the Sassanid Dynasty it was the case that Babylonia was under Iranian control before the unfortunate Arab Islamic conquest against the Iranian Zoroastrian Empire of the Sassanid Dynasty

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Traditional Iranian Christians who have always been Christians that come from historical Christian ancestry are members of the Eastern Church (aka Orthodoxism) while the New converts (the Ex-Muslims) to Christianity are members of the New Church (aka Protestantism) In conclusion: Iranian Christians are either Orthodox or Protestant which means we don't have Catholics (aka the Western Church) in our Christian community. This is because Orthodox Christianity is geographically located in the East thus it's natural that the traditional Iranian Christians would be Orthodox and the explanation as to why the New Converts to Christianity preferred Protestantism was because of it's liberal flexibility whereas Catholicism is too strictly conservative for them in comparison