Lehigh Valley Conservative

Ignorance is turning into evilness and there is nothing the “Talk Show” guys are going to do about that. “Nothing” Why because they cannot teach the depth of subject knowledge needed to understand fully what the problem is and/or what wrongness it carries with it, making truth believable in a 30 second sound bite.  Along with last Saturdays revelation of my understanding that teaching the how to, (I call it the mechanics of the operation) does not give you principles in a candidate.  Because you can teach a “Socialist” just as well as you can teach a principled “Righteous Statesman” how to run and win an election.  Allow me to continue along the same track showing how ignorance and lack of understanding will produce foolishness and evilness within society.    

In the book of John 8:32 we have this;  “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” 

If you look close at that verse it is not truth that makes you/us free, it is our knowledge of some truth that makes us free.  If we don’t have that truth and/or we can’t learn that truth we have a serious problem.  To carry that problem one step further, if we have eliminated the teaching of that truth we have an even big problem.  We have taken away the fact that even if someone wanted to learn that truth it is not there to learn. 

We have this in Hosea 4:6  “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”

Abram Van Engen a graduate student in literature at Northwestern University review the book “The Good, The Bad, and the Puritans” by Sarah Vowell.

He has this to say about Ms. Vowell’s book; hopefully what he says throws some light on this “Ignorance” that I speak of and why from 1620 until 1787 those folks could formulate our “Constitution” and we can’t even figure out which way is the correct way to go even after we have the rules of government (Constitution and Bill of Rights) and the Bible to follow.

 “Winthrop’s “city on a hill,” for example, would ideally be a “model of Christian charity.” In other words, when Winthrop envisioned a godly society, he did not turn primarily to governmental design;(critical factor of today’s problem, what are we doing but turn ever more to the government) he turned, rather, to communal values, to loving one another, to rejoicing and suffering together, to living as members of one body.”
 
 “The Puritans were deeply committed to learning—a commitment so obvious and so interwoven into all they said and did that it is sometimes brutally shocking (as a scholar of Puritanism) to discover popular views that depict the Puritans as anti-intellectual fanatics. Some people build such views on a basic premise that religion itself is opposed to learning. That would come as a surprise to the Puritans. One of the first things they did after building houses was build a school (Harvard). Next, they established a printing press. It would not do to wait for books from England; they must publish books themselves. Yet even then they continued to spend enormous amounts of money shipping boatloads of books to a small colony situated on the edge of the frontier. In their struggle for survival, the Puritans considered learning a basic need.”

 “Reading recently through a theological controversy of the 1630s, I had opportunity to see this respect for learning up close. One clear way it appears is in Puritan citations of multiple theologians: Luther, Calvin, Piscator, Pareus, Bellarmine. That last name speaks volumes. Robert Bellarmine was one of the preeminent Catholic thinkers of his day, and Puritans cited specific passages of his works—book, section, page, and line. In other words, the Puritans felt that in order to argue with one’s enemies, they needed first to read what their enemies wrote—(we haven’t a clue what the enemy wrote or says, not a clue) even to spend money buying and shipping their books across the sea. This commitment to learning, Vowell suggests, might be a legacy worth retrieving.”

So we now have two problems I have outlined.
1/ We are teaching mechanics (how to run for office) and no principles.
2/ We are not teaching truth and I might add, I’m talking of both, in the School’s and Church’s.
Is it no wonder that we have a government that is hinged on “Power” and “Corruption” and is doing everything in some deceptive fashion not to show us that they (government) are taking us away from Jesus Christ and down the path of “Socialism”.  We Shall See and shortly, Lord have mercy on us.