I've reached out to some internet acquaintances, some scientists and communicators, telling them about my new blogging effort ConfrontingScienceContrarians, trying to get a little feedback. Nothing much by way of response, these are busy people with bigger concerns filling their days, plus they come from a more establishment background. And me, what am I, a terrified spectator, low on anyone's priority list. Plus most simply don't understand what I'm trying do, which I shouldn't be surprised at. In many ways they can't understand me any better than I can understand them. Still, I try, so along with a couple other posts, I shared my list of 14 Observations regarding communication failures.
One response I did receive:
"Your section 12 Faith-Based Thinking makes absolutely no sense to me."
On reread the text it seemed straightforward enough, so I figured the main problem was with my convoluted title and I made it more concise;
12) Faith-based Thinking - God or EGO?
Possessing the hubris to fancy that we petty, jealous, fearful, prideful humans can access and understand the real God of Light and Time, Life and Love, leads to a profound disconnect from our planet’s physical reality, and an immoral absolutism.
It's one thing to believe in an unknowable god, quite another to mistake one’s own hyper-inflated EGO for God.
Unhinged from reality is not too harsh a descriptive.
I shared my change and added some explanation.
The right-wing and evangelical faithful tell us to our faces that they are in direct communication with God Almighty of Time and Light, Creation and Life. They tell us they are doing God's duty. For instance, it's God demanding that Government interfer with a woman's right to self-determination and to self-defense when it comes to having a child, or not - though it matters not one bit to the State what any woman does with herself.
It's God telling people that Evolution is Satan's plan and that liberals are enemies who are going to hell. They really and truly believe and broadcast it. It's God telling them scientists are liars.
That is something Children of the Intellectual Enlightenment really ought to start facing up front - it demands a new sort of language and questions and open rejection of such nonsense.
