The crowd was loud at the crucifixion too. Loud has never meant right.

Volume is not evidence. A large number of people saying the same thing with great confidence produces a feeling of obviousness, and that feeling is manufactured rather than earned. History’s worst afternoons had enthusiastic majorities. The pressure you feel to agree is real, and it is telling you about the crowd rather than about the truth.

When something feels unanimous this week, pause long enough to ask who is making the noise and what they have at stake. Decide what you think before you read the replies. If you end up in a small minority and you are right, that is simply what being right sometimes feels like.