The Ignorance of the Educated

Like many other “professionals,” medical “professionals” suffer from a general lack of education because they cannot comprehend any other way of thinking besides what they were taught in medical school. As I always say, any form of education predominantly teaches you how to think and believe the way your professors think and believe; never how to think critically, objectively, logically, rationally, or even for yourself.

"Experts" are not immune from poor judgment and faulty reasoning. People who are academically accomplished are the most susceptible to media brainwashing and propaganda. They believe that academic achievement removes them from susceptibility, but historically the opposite is true. They ignorantly believe that academia can do no wrong. Academia says it, they believe it, that’s all there is to it!

Based on about five dozen quotes I have read, I believe that professor Richard Feynman was a very bright man. Several of his quotes regarding education would likely offend the so-called “educated.” He basically calls the “educated” dangerous, which they are. Here are a few of his quotes (which confirmed my own thoughts and observations):

“Modern education:
Creating people who are smart enough to accurately repeat what they are told and follow the orders.
And dumb enough to think this makes them smarter than everyone else.”

“The real problem with the education system is that it tests memorization skills, not learning or intelligence.
The two major aspects that lack in modern education systems are education and system.”

“The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.”

“When your ‘education’ limits your imagination it’s called indoctrination. Those who cannot think for themselves are truly lost.
Education should be a rewarding experience which allows you to think, imagine, question, doubt and solve problems.”

“Education isn’t about the ability to remember and repeat, in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.
It is the ability to learn from experience, to think, solve problems, and use our knowledge to adapt to new situations.” 

“You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.
You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting.”

“The goal of teaching should not be to help the students learn how to memorize and spit out information under academic pressure.
The purpose of teaching is to inspire the desire for learning in them and make them able to think, understand, and question.”

“Never confuse education with intelligence. You can have a Ph.D. and still be an idiot.”

“When you are dead, you don’t know you are dead. It’s pain only for others.
It’s the same thing when you are stupid.”

“Be careful when you follow the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.”

Credentials do not amount to a hill of beans. Anyone with half a brain and a shred of intelligence can retain information and parrot it back on tests and exams in order to get the grades, the GPA, the degrees, and titles. You can have the entire alphabet before and after your name and it literally means nothing; it does not mean you are intelligent in the least, that you understand anything you learned, or that you have a clue what you are talking about. The real test of intelligence is whether you can question any of what you were taught to believe and expose it as either antiquated (old) or false, or if you can create a better way of accomplishing it.

A large portion of things we have been taught are patently false, from Big Bang to Evolution to Pangea to modern church practice to medical/pharmaceutical chicanery. Are you going to remain an ignorant fool who goes along to get along, or are you going to stand up and be a beacon of light exposing the great lies with the truth? “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). Will you take the red pill, or the blue pill? “You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”

“Three things cannot be long hidden: The sun, the moon, and the truth.” —Confucius

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” —Arthur Schopenhauer

“[God’s] truth [is] not to [certain individual’s] taste. We all know how soon a man will contrive, against the strongest evidence, to reason himself out of the belief of what he dislikes.” —Matthew Henry

“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the [whole] world.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Stand up for [truth] even if you’re standing alone.” ―Suzy Kassem

“Stand up for [truth] regardless of who is committing the [lie].” ―Suzy Kassem

“Always stand up for truth regardless of who steps on it.” ―Suzy Kassem

“The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.” —Aristotle

“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.” —Booker T. Washington

“Have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?” —Galatians 4:16

“Study . . . rightly dividing the word of truth.” —2 Timothy 2:15

Know the truth. Speak the truth. Stand for the truth.

More on Paul Washer’s Logical Fallacy

“Let’s go back through 2000 years of Christian history. If the men and women who loved and cherished the Scriptures, and had a high view of Scriptures, are all in agreement with regard to a certain doctrine, and they don’t agree with you, then who’s probably wrong?” —Paul Washer

Once again, as godly as Paul Washer may be, and as much as I may respect him, this is a logical fallacy. Especially when you start to exegete the modern church and understand her pagan roots. 500 years ago, the Reformers attempted to recover biblical doctrine (while creating unbiblical doctrines of their own), but they failed to recover the priesthood of all believers and the gathering of the saints as was practiced during the first century.

What you and I experience today (and has been experienced for the past 1700 years) as “church” is what Emperor Constantine introduced to the church. Our “temples,” our “clergy,” our “services,” none of that existed for the first 300 years of the church’s existence. Yet Mr. Washer wants to attempt to argue because some belief or practice was held to for so long that that automatically makes you wrong and them right? Sorry, Mr. Washer, but you could not be more wrong.

Add to that the fact that whenever the early church gathered, they did so around a communal meal. The Lord’s Supper (or Communion) never consisted of a tiny shot glass of wine or grape juice and a wafer, cracker, or crumb of bread. Read 1 Corinthians 11 and you can see the problem with this practice. Moreover, in the early church the only requirement for membership was the indwelling Holy Spirit, and you were baptized immediately upon your profession of Jesus. Today, membership resembles joining country clubs, and they employ lengthy waiting periods before you can be baptized. What was that Mr. Washer was saying about the length of time the church believed or practiced a certain thing?

The modern church, and much of her forced exegesis, including that done by Mr. John MacArthur, could not be more wrong. The modern church has eisegeitically tried to force her practices into the Bible by imposing them on particular texts. However, if you bother to pay close attention to your New Testament when you read it, these errors could not be more plain. The New Testament says nothing in defence of our modern temples, our paid clergy, our “worship” services, or even of “tithing.” The New Testament is opposed to all of these.

When you try to share this with those in unbiblical positions they should not hold, they turn on you rather quickly and attack you with deflection, projection, censorship, smearing, framing, ad hominem, name calling, character assassination, and the use of fallacious arguments that have no basis in reality, because they are afraid of giving up or losing the control they have over the people (or their lazy laidback lifestyle of mooching off and fleecing the saints). This exposes them as hirelings as much as the events of the past two years does, dividing their flocks over the lies of this scamdemic (to say nothing of those hirelings who failed to celebrate the overturning of Roe).

Mr. Washer seriously needs to rethink his words. However, that is likely never to happen (as with 90% of professing Christians) because he has been programmed to believe what he believes and he is too proud and stubborn to “search the Scriptures” and see it any other way. Is this true of you as well, reader, or are you like the Bereans with a heart that desires to know and conform to biblical truth? I pray it is the latter.

“Judeo-Christian”???

I dislike the use of the phrase “Judeo-Christian.”

Why?

First, there is no such thing as a “Judeo-Christian” religion. Even the Jews recognize this. Observe:

“You will notice that a great difference exists between the Jewish and the Christian religions. But these are not all. We Jews consider the two religions so different that one excludes the other...we emphasized that there is no such thing as a Judeo-Christian religion... There is not any similarity between the two concepts...” —Rabbi Maggal, President, quoted in the National Jewish Information Service, August 21, 1961

Jews have abandoned the faith of Abraham in place of the traditions of the scribes and Pharisees. Also, Christianity does not have “Jewish roots.” It has nothing to do with the tribe of Judah nor the religion of Judaism, both of which the term “Jew” accurately reflects.

Second, the purpose of the phrase “Judeo-Christian” is to give credit for the good and wonderful things of Christianity to people whose rejection of Jesus forms the core of their identity.

We must stop lumping in an alien religion that holds its additional holy book (the Talmud) as of equal or greater authority than the Bible, just as Muslims (the Qur’an) and Mormons (the Book of Mormon) do. There is no “Judeo-Christian” morality any more than there is an “Islamo-Christian” or “Mormono-Christian” morality.

If God’s people are going to rebuild Christianity in the same way Christ’s apostles did in the first century, we must be just as exclusively Christian as they were. We have to dispense with the fantasy that a religion that has rejected the true Israel—Christ Jesus—has anything more to do with the Christian faith than Muhammad’s or Joseph Smith’s fantastical fabrications.

“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. ... No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Not through Moses.
Not through Muhammed.
Not through Moroni.

Only Jesus. Only Christian.

Was Your Pastor Silent on Roe?

by Andrew Iske

On Friday, June 24th, an epochal change took place in American history: the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. If you are a churchgoing evangelical Christian who somehow had not heard about that before going to church Sunday, June 26th, a substantial percentage of you would have remained unaware that the most significant political and cultural change in half a century had taken place. Yes, many churches were totally silent about this massive victory won by the Lord Jesus Christ.

There are a number of purported reasons for this. Chief among them is the theological view among evangelical leaders that the church should never speak about anything “political” or sully its “witness” by preaching to the culture. Forget the fact that Jesus Christ is king of heaven and earth, reigning from the right hand of God the Father, and that therefore everything is under His authority—No!—the gospel is only about the individual sinner’s heart, and has nothing to say about how he is to live in the world, much less how he is to do things like vote! Hireling evangelical leaders will also point to “separation of church and state” as though the modern liberal understanding is 1. What the Founding Fathers of the American republic meant by the First Amendment’s establishment clause (they didn’t) 2. God’s Word nowhere requires God’s people or ministers to refrain from speaking about politics and culture anywhere. If Jesus reigns, and if the state is the minister of God, punishing wickedness and rewarding the good, as the Apostle says in Romans 13, then God’s people have something from God’s Word to say about it.

And this is not mere politics, either. This is not an argument over whether the top marginal tax rate should be 36.5% or 37%. This is about whether or not it will remain legal for a woman to have her baby dissected in her womb. This is about whether or not one million+ babies will be legally murdered again for the 49th year in a row. This is not trivial partisan politics, these are questions of public righteousness. These are things that Almighty God will judge entire nations over—and much of the church is terrified to even say one word about it!

And the reason for this, no matter what the theological justifications given are, is that so many of the leaders of the American church are utter cowards and people-pleasers. They fear men and not God. Some church leaders were not totally silent about the overturning of Roe but still they refused to rejoice and praise God for it and instead chided congregants who might celebrate, saying “we need to mourn with those who mourn” and “we need to be very sensitive and compassionate to those who disagree with us” and “focus now on pushing for welfare state initiatives to care for single moms and their babies.” It would almost be better if they had said nothing. Such people act as if the Jesus is Mr. Rogers and not the Jesus shown in the Gospels. That is the Jesus of the Psalms, like Psalm 94.

But these men deceive themselves into thinking their cowardice is Christlikeness. They pretend as if the sin of murdering your child, and severing the most precious and powerful human bond there is between mother and child, is no big deal and God just winks at it. They act as if this is not one of the most monstrous things possible for a person to do, that will rightly doom a person for all eternity if they do not repent of it. But by refusing to preach against the sin of abortion, whether by cowardice or sinful pragmatism, they are actually withholding God’s grace from women who desperately need it. It may not seem like it, but preaching against great evil, that causes great shame and grief by those guilty of it, is actually grace

Preaching against sin produces godly grief and godly grief produces repentance which leads to life. By refusing to preach against abortion, and by refusing to celebrate a great victory over it, evangelical leaders are withholding grace while patting themselves on the back for just how gracious they think they are. They would rather women still be in their sin but feel warm fuzzies about them than confront their sin and point them to the grace of God which is faithful and just to forgive them their sin and cleanse them from all unrighteousness—including the sin of murdering your child.

This reaction (and especially the total non-reaction) of the evangelical church to Roe being overturned is illustrative of the deep problems within evangelicalism today. Evangelicals and their prayers and action are the reason, humanly speaking, that this ruling happened. Yet our leaders are totally duplicitous, at worst, and completely aloof, at best. They desire the accolades of the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN. They don’t want to be lumped in with low-status evangelicals they regard as "white MAGA trash" who want to ban abortion and are repulsed by sodomy.

They are terrified of offending anyone because they think can simply nice their way into getting people who believe they have a right to murder their child to come to their church. Church growth strategies and marketing schemes dominate everything for these people. But what good is it to have thousands of people in your church if you are leading them slowly to perdition? The Lord will not measure success by how many rear-ends you put in seats, but whether you were faithful to His Word and His command to feed His sheep.

There is simply no other way to put this: the church leaders who have refused to give God glory for this great victory that will save the lives of millions are hirelings, not shepherds. They are men who are mercenaries, in it for a paycheck and will flee while the wolves devour the sheep. We are in a time where God is taking the world and shaking it up. He is revealing things that were once hidden. Men we thought were faithful ministers have turned out to be anything but. They gladly lock down their churches, they sit back idly as the biomedical security state attacks their church’s worship and their congregants’ businesses, and withholds their ability to feed their families without submitting to a dangerous medical experiment.

After experiencing cowardice to that degree for more than two years now, we should not be surprised by their silence on the overturning of Roe. So if you are one of the many faithful Christians rejoicing over the Dobbs decision and your pastor has been silent, you don’t just have the right to find a new church, you have a duty to do so. There are countless faithful churches and pastors who gladly receive likeminded reinforcements and the encouragement to the boldness that you would be. Now is the time to go find them.