tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post8722575028129712588..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: "Sex Pos" Hucksters Are The Anti-Vaxxers Of The "Reality Community" If Not Its Climate Change DeniersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-43765229394768398722014-05-19T10:35:05.921-04:002014-05-19T10:35:05.921-04:00Well, I started the morning making the mistake of ...Well, I started the morning making the mistake of responding to some comments on the weekly "Cosmos Outraged the Fundies!" thread at Salon, via Alternet. Somebody reposted an NYT Op-Ed about the Rev. Thomas Prince critiquing Franklin's lightning rods in 1755 as "proof" Christians be crazy when it comes to the subject of electricity. A quick Google search found that Prince was reflecting the scientific consensus of his time (that perhaps the cause of lightning and of earthquakes was connected, and so lightning rods could cause earthquakes) in his response to a earthquake in Boston that year.<br /><br />And the conversation jumped off a cliff, as one example after another of a Christian with crazy science ideas (Hagee came up) was presented to "prove" all Christians be crazee!<br /><br />Science is what I think is true, and what you think is true is crazee, and probably "religion"! And don't bring that "reasoning" stuff around, because I have evidence of crazy things "Christians" say, so I win!<br /><br />Personal experience is what I want it to be. We all filter experiences and decide which ones establish our <i>weltanschaaung</i>. And in reaction, usually, we establish what is "good" based on what it is not. Rabid Protestants to this day want to be sure, above all, that they don't worship like Catholics. Rabid promoters of Atheism go so far was to say Dawkins has never said an unkind word about religion, he's just shown us how marvelous science is (that's in the post I was commenting on; I knew better than to bring that one up).<br /><br />And the "sex pos" crowd just wants to do away with Victorian strictures and judgments about sexuality and sexual expression, because the best cure for the past is alway to throw out the baby with the bathwater.<br /><br />And never listen to anyone who says otherwise. It is, as you say, all about in crowd identity. I was certainly getting the "He is not of the Body!" treatment in that comment thread.<br /><br />Ah, well; I knew that would happen. I knew better than to comment there. The internet is not a place for discussions; it is a place for confirming one's prejudices, and little more.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com