While taking care to say I am not claiming that heralds of science or Reason are above similar abuses of language, I hold such use of "we" as you make in your last sentence for characteristic of magic/sorcery.

What I believe is that there is a massive subset of the population that's basically color-blind to the specifics of scientific reasoning and thus (1) rely essentially on the branding of relayed beliefs and affirmations to make a distinction, and (2) constrain by their mass the discussion of the issue to be on their terms. My issue with your use of "we" relates to the latter.