Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015
Dear Richard,
I’m a columnist not a journalist. Columnists have more fun. We break rules.
Quick aside: Ann Druyan and I started a religious war on Kauai. In the November/December 2003 Skeptical Inquirer ‘Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe…and Carl Sagan’ and I responded. My letter appeared in the Letters to the Editor section in the March/April 2004 issue. It then appeared as a column in The Garden Island Forum.
Eleven years later and I still don’t understand what it was in that letter that set ‘them’ off. The war’s still waging.
The current column –better known in this back neck of the woods as a bettejo– was a hoot to write. Have already had one response. Before the letter was published–I think there’s a leak–someone named Jerry Terui from Lihue cautioned me, quoting 1 Corinthian 1:18-25, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
….blessed are the dense for they will inherit the earth?
My Editor wants more Richard Dawkins. Will try to work something up about A Candle in the Dark and see if I can include the densers. Don’t want to leave them out.
By the way, I found, on my desk when I returned home, two books: Sense of Style and 36 Arguments for the Existence of God. I’m trying to read Candle, Sense, and 36 Arguments all at the same time.
If gawd had a hand in this, I think he’s got his fingers crossed.
Aloha,
Bettejo
PS: New comment: ‘I’m a Dawkish adolescent.’ In a way I’m kind’a flattered. Adolescent? Don’t I wish.
bettejo 
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