The problem is that we vaunted intellectuals lost the most basic thing of all: The theory of mind. You put a little kid in a room with a basket and a dresser, then have a man come in and hide a ball under the basket. Then have a woman come in and move the ball from the basket to the dresser. Then ask the kid where the man will go to look for the ball. The kid will say the dresser because he/she hasn't yet sussed out that other people aren't working with the same info.
The hell of it is, theory of mind covers a lot more than that. To use a computer metaphor, that basic example above is essentially about people not having the same data. Problem is, the software and the hardware platforms are also unique and we forgot (or never realized) that. Whatever part of us lets us keep running our code isn't standard loadout and if anyone without the right (or wrong) wiring who tries it is going to fuck it up. So we saw this whole godless trend exemplified by Internet Atheism and thought "Neat! More people like us!" when they really weren't. So we got blindsided by stuff like Atheism+ and the fuck-your-god-dad atheism that thinks Islam is juuuust fiiiine. And, irony of ironies, we're now in a Hell of our own devising.
My pastor sometimes makes references to "Intellectual Barbarians" who are smart people with very perverse hearts, and who don't care how much misery their executed ideas cause.
He also makes references to "Hot Tub Christianity" where people go to Church once a week for a feel-good seminar. They're taught not to worry about sin because not sinning is hard and they'll be forgiven anyways. In some extremes they're taught that God is more an idea than a supreme being who existed before mankind.
And also "Counterfeit Christians" who claim to be Christian but don't put God first in their lives. I tell you it's especially hard to love my neighbors these days, but it's a commandment I must follow. Not because "it makes me feel good" or because "I should be a decent human being;" but because Jesus commanded it; and He did not stutter. (If you look at my post history you'll see I'm bad at keeping it, but I'm trying).
I honestly believe that this country would be different and a lot more souls would be saved if there weren't so many Hot Tub and Counterfeit Christians out there.
The problem is that we vaunted intellectuals lost the most basic thing of all: The theory of mind. You put a little kid in a room with a basket and a dresser, then have a man come in and hide a ball under the basket. Then have a woman come in and move the ball from the basket to the dresser. Then ask the kid where the man will go to look for the ball. The kid will say the dresser because he/she hasn't yet sussed out that other people aren't working with the same info.
The hell of it is, theory of mind covers a lot more than that. To use a computer metaphor, that basic example above is essentially about people not having the same data. Problem is, the software and the hardware platforms are also unique and we forgot (or never realized) that. Whatever part of us lets us keep running our code isn't standard loadout and if anyone without the right (or wrong) wiring who tries it is going to fuck it up. So we saw this whole godless trend exemplified by Internet Atheism and thought "Neat! More people like us!" when they really weren't. So we got blindsided by stuff like Atheism+ and the fuck-your-god-dad atheism that thinks Islam is juuuust fiiiine. And, irony of ironies, we're now in a Hell of our own devising.
My pastor sometimes makes references to "Intellectual Barbarians" who are smart people with very perverse hearts, and who don't care how much misery their executed ideas cause.
He also makes references to "Hot Tub Christianity" where people go to Church once a week for a feel-good seminar. They're taught not to worry about sin because not sinning is hard and they'll be forgiven anyways. In some extremes they're taught that God is more an idea than a supreme being who existed before mankind.
And also "Counterfeit Christians" who claim to be Christian but don't put God first in their lives. I tell you it's especially hard to love my neighbors these days, but it's a commandment I must follow. Not because "it makes me feel good" or because "I should be a decent human being;" but because Jesus commanded it; and He did not stutter. (If you look at my post history you'll see I'm bad at keeping it, but I'm trying).
I honestly believe that this country would be different and a lot more souls would be saved if there weren't so many Hot Tub and Counterfeit Christians out there.
Trust me, Jesus would not be loving these degenerates.
So Joel Osteen and the normie right.