My two concerns are... expressing confusion, and not being inadvertently viewed as posing as a member of something I'm not. Given Jewish holidays... I have an idea of what's going on at Passover and Yom Kippur. And rarely am I in a position where someone might think I'm posing as Jewish.
More relevant, actually, are disclaimers I issue WRT Southern Baptists and other Christian fundamentalists -- not because of confusion over what they're doing, per se, but because I feel like I need to differentiate my practices and beliefs and politics from theirs, and in some circles I'm assumed to agree unless I overtly dissent. I don't want to be mistaken as passing as a evangelical fundie, even though I *could* in many situations (particularly around my parents' in Atlanta, where it is as much the assumed cultural norm as paganism is an assumed norm in many poly circles) by doing or saying nothing.
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More relevant, actually, are disclaimers I issue WRT Southern Baptists and other Christian fundamentalists -- not because of confusion over what they're doing, per se, but because I feel like I need to differentiate my practices and beliefs and politics from theirs, and in some circles I'm assumed to agree unless I overtly dissent. I don't want to be mistaken as passing as a evangelical fundie, even though I *could* in many situations (particularly around my parents' in Atlanta, where it is as much the assumed cultural norm as paganism is an assumed norm in many poly circles) by doing or saying nothing.