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It is an ominous sign whenever a political movement dispenses with methods and approaches of gaining knowledge that are anchored to public revelation and, moreover, becomes openly hostile to them. Anti-intellectualism and a corresponding reliance on innate knowledge is one of the hallmarks of a cult or a totalitarian ideology.

(source: Sacred Beliefs)

One of the benefits of adopting a metaphysical realist’s approach to–well, to reality–is the ability to see moments when “reality happens” amid the constant cut-and-thrust of rhetorical and hypothetical claims as just that:  as contact between creatures-as-such and Creation-as-such, that is, as acknowledgement of what they are and the world is prior to their construals (or mine).  We get to stop trying to claim “wins” based on who is able to keep up a consistent defense of a certain claim longest (a worthy exercise, but in isolation productive of a nominalist habit of thought, not a way of living in the real world).  Instead, we can enjoy the moment of shared access to reality, and engage sympathetically with others in the effort to adjust our habits and expectations and commitments to match.

Besides, nothing important in Christian revelation has ever been done secretly:

It is really cause for rejoicing, then, when advocates just admit (as in the letter cited above) that their “positions” are not tenable as a way of living.  I’ve been there, and I’m happy to say “I got better.”

And we can really hope that it will get better for folks who have enough experience of life to show us the difference between deep, deep sympathy and care for those who are all too easily marginalized, even made vulnerable to harm and mistreatment–the difference between caring for all our neighbors, and attempting to replace the thickness of reality with a thin set of constructs that we can control.  It turns out that our replacements really aren’t the real thing:

Kids of divorced parents are allowed to say, “Hey, mom and dad, I love you, but the divorce crushed me and has been so hard. It shattered my trust and made me feel like it was my fault. It is so hard living in two different houses.” Kids of adoption are allowed to say, “Hey, adoptive parents, I love you. But this is really hard for me. I suffer because my relationship with my first parents was broken. I’m confused and I miss them even though I’ve never met them.”

But children of same-sex parents haven’t been given the same voice. It’s not just me. There are so many of us. Many of us are too scared to speak up and tell you about our hurt and pain, because for whatever reason it feels like you’re not listening. That you don’t want to hear. If we say we are hurting because we were raised by same-sex parents, we are either ignored or labeled a hater.

This isn’t about hate at all. I know you understand the pain of a label that doesn’t fit and the pain of a label that is used to malign or silence you. And I know that you really have been hated and that you really have been hurt. I was there, at the marches, when they held up signs that said, “God hates fags” and “AIDS cures homosexuality.” I cried and turned hot with anger right there in the street with you. But that’s not me. That’s not us.

(source: Dear Gay Community: Your Kids Are Hurting)

And the same sort of adjustments tend to be needed wherever the popular abstract claims, the construals of society best fitted to the colonizing ideology of the post-Christian global West, meet the evidence; there are claims, and there are counterclaims, and eventually there is a reality that we cannot ignore, because it is not in our makeup to deny we are made.