[Glice]

Right.

First of all, creationism is utter bullshit - but it's a particular sort of bullshit. Genesis as a allegorical myth? Brilliant. Creationism as a far-right 'Christian' movement, protecting other anti-progressive epistemologies and badly covering a suspicion about anything purporting to expand human understanding? Bullshit.

It's interesting you mention Freud - you could relate that to my general take on things in as far as there's a definite sense, in some circles, that psychoanalysis is 'the' true empirical framework for society, attenuating the truth of the human condition. It might well be. But I'm cautious about any epistemology which purports to explain the world 'as it really is'. I tend to treat it as an Enlightenment lie that any single epistemology can explain all the others, can take and demand sovereignty. Which is, amusingly, where Hegel relates to Christianity the imperial monster.

Fundamentally, I can and do believe some of 'that shit', in the same way that you seem to think that a fantastical narrative is unbelievable. I'm not putting you in the box marked 'Enlightenment activist', but... well, I suppose I appeal to a form of postmodernist 'truth', not the chimerical Baudriallardian one, but the atomic truths inherited from Feyerabend (who, incidentally, absolutely hate Derrida). Does Christianity represent epistemic anarchy to many other people? Probably not, but it works fine for me, though I've yet to round off all the rough edges (an-arche, as in without structure, tabula rasa and the Holy Spirit)

I don't really care to proselytise, but I think it's a very worrying form of progressive thought which would seek to elide other counterpart ideologies and epistemics. Would I defend parapsychology, divination, voodoo, horseracing, Morris Dancing (etc)? Yes, with reservations. Always with reservations. Belief doesn't fall away in the face of alterior narratives, regardless of how those narratives colonise epistemology. I'm unfair on Hegel, always, because it's not his fault, but I think it's important that we don't let anything colonise again, even if that seems like a contradictory position from someone who's at the heart of the worst empire the world has ever seen (that doesn't make me an apologist, yet).

Any of this make sense? Writing in a bit of a rush.