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In the last few years, we've witnessed the woeful effects of the destructive policies of the Department of Education on our young people. From one public university to another, policies which can be shown to have been formulated and implemented by occultist enemies of Christ (such as former U.N. under-secretary Robert Muller's admission that his "World Core Curriculum" - of which the "COMMON CORE CURRICULUM" is a carbon copy - is based on the ideas and philosophies of supersonic Luciferian Alice A. Bailey) have resulted in a new generation of young people who cannot tolerate any opinions which challenge their own. Critical Thinking skills are left undeveloped, while heavy emphasis is placed on leftist agenda indoctrination. When confronted with such challenges, their response usually ranges from mild rudeness to fiercely violent verbal and physical attacks, along with appeals to an authority to silence their opposition.
Why? Cognitive Dissonance.
When you've been told year after impressionable year that Global Freezing/Global Warming/Climate Change is going to kill us all, and then are confronted with the fact that the 1980 explosion of the Mount St. Helens volcano bombarded the atmosphere with as much Ozone-depleting material as everything expelled from every single smoke stack and exhaust pipe on the planet since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution - and, yet, we're all still alive and kicking with all these other volcanoes ceaselessly erupting - well, such facts don't only cause cognitive disharmony, they also inflict emotional and psychological harm. When a person finds himself holding as true two diametrically opposed views, the resulting cognitive disharmony is too much to bear and the cognitive "coping mechanism" kicks in, where the "uncomfortable new truth" is rejected and the "comfortable old truth" is retained in order to restore cognitive harmony. However, as we get closer to the coming of Jesus and the warning to "take heed that no man deceive you" goes more and more unheeded, those seduced by satanic leftist thinking have now elevated their beliefs to the level or religion - the mind which was once an arena of ideas is now an ideological battlefield and anything perceived to be a threat must be neutralized - ideological tolerance will not be tolerated.
So, what about Christianity? Is it possible a new generation of Christians - so emotionally unstable, so intellectually stunted, so devoid of the Holy Spirit while convinced they are His favorite vessel - are found vulnerable to similar cognitive issues?
Can it be it's now more important to cling to "old comfortable truths" that have been a crutch for so long than it is to heed Paul's admonition to "despise not prophesying, prove all things, hold fast to that which is good"?
Does "new uncomfortable truth" so disturb Christians that instead of plucking up the courage to responsibly and maturely reexamine both "truths" until it becomes evident which is actually true and which is false - the response to theological challenges is to report "offensive", "mean", "abusive" posts to the "authorities" so that the opposition can be silenced and we can go back to our "safe space" echo chambers and enjoy "free speech" as long as that speech agrees with our own?
The job of the Holy Spirit is to "convict" us of wrong and "guide" us into all truth, which by definition requires that He lead us out of our error. A mature, genuine Christian will be tolerant of those perceived as holding wrong ideas because time and time again, he's been shown the darkness in which he's been stumbling when the Holy Spirit shines the light of truth - but the professing Christian who resorts to the same tactics as our unbelieving friends? That speaks encyclopedic volumes about their their spiritual health.
"LET THE MINDS CLASH, BUT KEEP THE FISTS DOWN" - Martin Luther
Why? Cognitive Dissonance.
When you've been told year after impressionable year that Global Freezing/Global Warming/Climate Change is going to kill us all, and then are confronted with the fact that the 1980 explosion of the Mount St. Helens volcano bombarded the atmosphere with as much Ozone-depleting material as everything expelled from every single smoke stack and exhaust pipe on the planet since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution - and, yet, we're all still alive and kicking with all these other volcanoes ceaselessly erupting - well, such facts don't only cause cognitive disharmony, they also inflict emotional and psychological harm. When a person finds himself holding as true two diametrically opposed views, the resulting cognitive disharmony is too much to bear and the cognitive "coping mechanism" kicks in, where the "uncomfortable new truth" is rejected and the "comfortable old truth" is retained in order to restore cognitive harmony. However, as we get closer to the coming of Jesus and the warning to "take heed that no man deceive you" goes more and more unheeded, those seduced by satanic leftist thinking have now elevated their beliefs to the level or religion - the mind which was once an arena of ideas is now an ideological battlefield and anything perceived to be a threat must be neutralized - ideological tolerance will not be tolerated.
So, what about Christianity? Is it possible a new generation of Christians - so emotionally unstable, so intellectually stunted, so devoid of the Holy Spirit while convinced they are His favorite vessel - are found vulnerable to similar cognitive issues?
Can it be it's now more important to cling to "old comfortable truths" that have been a crutch for so long than it is to heed Paul's admonition to "despise not prophesying, prove all things, hold fast to that which is good"?
Does "new uncomfortable truth" so disturb Christians that instead of plucking up the courage to responsibly and maturely reexamine both "truths" until it becomes evident which is actually true and which is false - the response to theological challenges is to report "offensive", "mean", "abusive" posts to the "authorities" so that the opposition can be silenced and we can go back to our "safe space" echo chambers and enjoy "free speech" as long as that speech agrees with our own?
The job of the Holy Spirit is to "convict" us of wrong and "guide" us into all truth, which by definition requires that He lead us out of our error. A mature, genuine Christian will be tolerant of those perceived as holding wrong ideas because time and time again, he's been shown the darkness in which he's been stumbling when the Holy Spirit shines the light of truth - but the professing Christian who resorts to the same tactics as our unbelieving friends? That speaks encyclopedic volumes about their their spiritual health.
"LET THE MINDS CLASH, BUT KEEP THE FISTS DOWN" - Martin Luther
