text: why do some people assume they know who the asker is, based on the question he asks? from reading back the answers that i get on my questions, i am now officially a muslim-christian-buddhist, a straight-gay guy-girl, who's smart, stupid, ignorant, sweet, nice, brilliant, bigotted, unevenly yolked, intelligent, dumb cow. i'm also 8 years old, and 6 years old at the same time.  is it ok with you that i still don't have an identity-crisis? funny, an interesting phenomenon.  i once was chastised for not realizing that christianity (it was assumed i was a christian) is not the only religion, and told i was very ignorant and arrogant for not knowing this, after i wrote a question primarily addressed towards christians about something i wanted to know about their faith.  incidentally i am an atheist, and wasn't assuming anything, i was just asking about christianity.  people do this all the time "well, liberals like you..." or "christians like you..." etc.  they assume that any opinion they don't like comes from a group they don't like.  they don't want to think that they disagree with anyone from their group, because then how much part of the group would they be?  afraid of independent thought, i think.