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One way that we humans cope with stress is called denial, which is defined psychologically, according to Wikipedia, as: a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.
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We see denial raised to a way of life in fundamentalist religion, which is locked into denial at the level of abnegating the very geology of our planet.
Although we reckon that the Chinese calendar has a continuous count of 4709 years, and the Hebrew count is 5733 years since they began counting in the midst of the Kingdom of Egypt, this is unacceptable to Creationists who will allow only 7000 years since the actual planet itself was created.
Scientists, who estimate this planet's age at more than twelve billion years, simply get no respect from fundamentalists.
And you might think that their problem lies there, but that is not true.
The actual problem lies in the concept of Biblical infallibility, not in science (although they have no problem "throwing the baby out with the bath water").
The slavish adoration of the Old Testament and its many detailed Laws is contrasted with one breathtaking phrase from St. Paul: "Christ is the end of the Law."
Sorry, but you have to pick one, and it is obvious that Christians, according to Paul, are not obligated to follow the Law in either its good or its bad interpretations.
But the point is that primitive Christianity, which clings to certainty, denies the reality of modern science in its attempt to be sure of their salvation.
http://www.examiner.com/article/denial-doesn-t-work-politics-or-religion
The subject may use:
- Simple denial: deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether
- Minimization: admit the fact but deny its seriousness (a combination of denial and rationalization)
- Projection: admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility by blaming somebody or something else."
We see denial raised to a way of life in fundamentalist religion, which is locked into denial at the level of abnegating the very geology of our planet.
Although we reckon that the Chinese calendar has a continuous count of 4709 years, and the Hebrew count is 5733 years since they began counting in the midst of the Kingdom of Egypt, this is unacceptable to Creationists who will allow only 7000 years since the actual planet itself was created.
Scientists, who estimate this planet's age at more than twelve billion years, simply get no respect from fundamentalists.
And you might think that their problem lies there, but that is not true.
The actual problem lies in the concept of Biblical infallibility, not in science (although they have no problem "throwing the baby out with the bath water").
The slavish adoration of the Old Testament and its many detailed Laws is contrasted with one breathtaking phrase from St. Paul: "Christ is the end of the Law."
Sorry, but you have to pick one, and it is obvious that Christians, according to Paul, are not obligated to follow the Law in either its good or its bad interpretations.
But the point is that primitive Christianity, which clings to certainty, denies the reality of modern science in its attempt to be sure of their salvation.
http://www.examiner.com/article/denial-doesn-t-work-politics-or-religion
