Posted on 06/22/2014 4:41:43 AM PDT by HarleyD
I always enjoyed listening to Boice on Family radio. I did not listen to Mr Harold Camping, but there were programs on it, that I did listen to.
those Dreamers© that are flooding into America do a lot of critical thinking and theorhetical modeling. I expect good things for our future! skyscrapers and Mars missions- like the Jetsons!
Someone whom we know absolutely nothing about can be so popular without ever saying the word....
We have been Vannitized again by Obamameister
Wow, I wish I could post this on facebook.
Christians would be a good start - even better if all folks developed the habit of actually thinking - and thinking things through.
“You see, if we do not have a perspective on life that is higher than what we can touch, taste, and see, we cannot appreciate that life is not an accident of evolution, but a gift of God and so ought to be preserved.’
Worth repeating
Excellent post! Yes, I can agree with how this applies to modern religion on TV verses getting your butt in the pew on Sundays.
But I’d submit this applies across the board to everything from our history to understanding the Constitution.
I recall in school being taught something call, ‘critical thinking skills.’ I do not believe those skills are taught any longer.
>>I recall in school being taught something call, ‘critical thinking skills.’ I do not believe those skills are taught any longer.
They’re still being taught. Rather, something called “critical thinking skills” are being taught, but it is more like “critical acceptance skills” where they show the student what to think and then demand that they change their mind to accept that.
Just a comment about Vanna White. I’ve never met her, but years ago as a chaplain we had 2 of our soldiers killed when we did Just Cause in Panama.
We planned a memorial service after we returned to the states, and we planned a large memorial stone and park at unit headquarters not just for these 2, but for all who had lost their lives in our relatively new unit.
Vanna White sent us a nice check. She had gone to high school with one of our two comrades who had just died. Moved by the memorials, totally unsolicited, she responded.
Her card was wordy, so that might just be her personality. It was a simple thanks for his service, his friendship, and his memory.
That’s what I know about Vanna White.
Just a comment about Vanna White. I’ve never met her, but years ago as a chaplain we had 2 of our soldiers killed when we did Just Cause in Panama.
We planned a memorial service after we returned to the states, and we planned a large memorial stone and park at unit headquarters not just for these 2, but for all who had lost their lives in our relatively new unit.
Vanna White sent us a nice check. She had gone to high school with one of our two comrades who had just died. Moved by the memorials, totally unsolicited, she responded.
Her card was NOT wordy, so that might just be her personality. It was a simple thanks for his service, his friendship, and his memory.
That’s what I know about Vanna White.
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Boice makes a logical error here. The point if the research is not that humans are no better than animals but that the tendency for such acts exists in many species including humans. A point to be made is that only humans have laws against such acts and severely punish such transgressors.
I just did - post it on FB.
Read anything written before 1900 and the depth of thinking, and expressing that thinking in writing (words, grammar, style) was light-years beyond what we had in the 20th century. Just read the writings of our forefathers......astounding in their depth.....and ability to express their thoughts. My fav reading is that written by authors pre-late 1800’s.
Now in the 21st century, all ability to think and write clearly and in depth has been all but lost. And it shows up in the whole decay of our society overall. It will eventually end in the collapse of society....and we are close. The average person under 30 today cannot think - they can only feel and respond emotionally to what they see and hear. This is like the ducks on the pond. Like animals.
That is why liberals/progressives/Marxists are so powerful - they rely on the lack of the ability to think in our populace. The re-election of O is a perfect example. All part of the Marxist plan for our nation from day one.
And, as the author said - its missing in the church as much as outside the church. The salt has lost its savor. No more restraining factor on the world.
Thirty years later, I would submit, it's worse. Amusement seems almost benign in an age of near universal deception as presented in all of mass media.
Thanks for posting this.
Good article, really. Too bad he didn’t take it even further. But, for thinking people, we should be able to, ourselves. Without “thinking” the church has taken sin in through the cloak of inclusiveness. We cannot judge the sinner, etc. We have listened and reacted to the sinners’ version of Scripture, them taking it out of context, and we not knowing it well enough to challenge back, have accepted many of the worldly tenets as God’s real character and we should adapt. No wonder the church has lost its voice. It doesn’t recognize the voice of its own God.
I know a lot of people no longer attend church, for one reason or another. They watch something on TV and move on as if that is all that is required. However, the local church is only as effective as its members are willing to follow after God’s leading, so if they do not participate in a local congregation for fellowship and for opportunities for ministry, then the whole community loses out. That seems to be happening more and more. Local churches drying up, people watching someone on TV, sending their money there, instead, and their community becoming more pagan and ungodly.
Radios in cars.
I am serious. People get in the car and the first thing they do is turn on the radio. The silence of a car ride is one of the few things people can do that leaves time for thinking things through.
Try it.
Just turn the radio off.
No, you are not going to turn into Plato (and who would want to?) but you will be surprised at how much thinking and pondering you will do.
Well, I do turn on Homer occasionally when I drive, audio tapes of Fagel’s translations. :)
And, I have read translations of everything extant that Plato ever wrote (a number of his dialogues many times, and most of Aristotle as well) and used to listen to Great Courses tapes about Plato’s major works when on the road. :)
But your point is well-taken. Quiet time in the car can be a wonderful chance to think deeply about things, although for me it is also simply a very deep and very rich sensory experience if I pay attention.
Theology is what I sometimes call an "armchair sport". It's a academic debate between gentlemen, engaged in while smoking cigars, sitting in high-backed chairs and surrounded by old books. For me, the thinking and the debate itself is the sport. Theology exercises and disciplines the intellect, with the intended goal of "taking every thought captive to obey Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5). I'm glad to discuss theology with anyone willing to don the requisite smoking jacket, to pour their favorite libation, and to join me in the library to engage in the manly sport of theology. IMO theology is important. But when we doff the jacket and go out into the world, we should leave our debating back in the library. Walking around outside, I pray that our common obedience to God, and our common affection for each other, will look as one to a watching world.
“Theology is the queen of the sciences and all other disciplines are her handmaidens.” ― R. C. Sproul“He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.” ― Jonathan Edwards
Thanks for the comment on car radios. Bur even more than that radios everywhere. Plus ipod/mp3 players, etc. People are afraid to be in the moment with their own thoughts and consciences. People do not realize how unnatural the whole thing is. It is all an escape from the responsibility and opportunity of being in the present. Most people don’t know how to handle that.
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