Russ it can be painful to have our beliefs challenged especially when these beliefs have helped us make sense of lives and our suffering and they are beliefs that we have respect for and hold dear to our hearts. We are all in the same boat and all learning, hopefully. Beliefs systems though thankfully are open to question because they effect the way we live our lives. As individuals and groups we brush up against others with often opposing or differing views as well as those similar to our own. What are we to do? I think if we expect that everyone should just go along with what we believe and say we are ultimately going to suffer and others will also suffer as we become more and more insistent that we are right and they are wrong. This is what you may be have been pushed to face up to in recent weeks