No, You Are Not Your Beliefs
As political and social tensions rise to unprecedented heights — save for pre-Civil War era America — a growing belief that a person’s beliefs determine their worth is gaining conscious and unconscious popularity.
In his book I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn’t Already, author Roger L. Simon highlights the difference between the statements “I am best” and “I know best.” Essentially, the first statement is dubbed an almost necessary belief a person holds about themselves in order to compete in their chosen field and in life. The latter statement, dubbed the morally narcissistic belief, reveals that a person insists that their belief system holds authority over all other belief systems. Further, they believe that convictions that vary from their own degrade a person’s worth. They, as stated, know best. Period.