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Fascinating!

I just sent a regular email to my dear sister in Christ, betty boop – using that exact same term, ”parrot”, to characterize the decline in mentality world-wide – and keenly so among evolutionist web-combatants.

It is most evident around here in the responses she and I receive to things we did not say – almost as if, ”since you are not in our cabal, then your thinking is type X and therefore you mean A and so my response is B”.

For anyone who missed the irony: that is group-thinking accusing others of group-thinking. It is self-condemning (Romans 2:1).

On the world scene, I submit as examples the Islamic response to the remarks by Pope Benedict or the Danish cartoons. On the crevo threads here and across the web, the same phenomenon occurs in creationist reactions to evolutionist claims and vice versa, evolutionist reactions to creationist claims.

What ever happened to reason?

I went on to speculate in my email to betty boop that IMHO the likely cause for widespread parroting in the world is the education system. From kindergarten to post-grad, people are taught to parrot – much more so than to think on their own. Talk about "political correctness!"

Speaking of mindless knee-jerk group-parroting, just take a peek at this exchange on Darwin Central.

betty boop and I are called “Blavatsky twins … new age spiritualists who think they are Christian reincarnations of Plato.”

What ever happened to reason? Jeepers, for that matter, what ever happened to reading? Or better still, reading comprehension?

betty boop and I are clearly Christians, neither of us embrace theosophy. Moreover, if anyone would care to actually read what we write, both of us are interested in the great Greek philosophers precisely because of our Christianity not despite it.

Talk about “new age” – parroting is the means of the "in crowds" from Islamic fundamentalism to 911 conspiracy theorists to anti-war mobs to [pick a type] political correctness.

Plato and Aristotle were not only not parrots, they were the exact opposite of “parrots”.

Thank you, Jesus! Maranatha!

Or how about this one from the same link calling us ”lapdog and nameless … they are nearly indistinguishable, they are usually found side-by-side, and each is assuredly a boob.”

For anyone who missed the irony: the only mortals who can actually know what the other guy is thinking are the ones who share the mind of Christ (I Corinthians 2). Of course, only Christians have this kind of knowledge. LOLOL!

If anyone would care to lay aside his talking points and pick up his thinking cap – then, bring it on – and we’ll let the readers judge for themselves if we are boobs (ignorant and foolish) --- who is reasoning and who is parroting --- and which is more valuable.