“Nope, I don’t hold others in such low esteem as to assume they can’t think and research for themselves, especially in this day and “information” age.”
In all due respect, you need to get out more.
It’s not that people ‘can’t’ think for themselves, it’s that they simply will not. Multitudes permit the gossiping neighbors and the newspapers to do their thinking for them. Simple observation of the world should tell you that.
As Mark Twain once asked: “What’s the hardest job in the world?”.
Answer: “Thinking. That’s why so few people do it”.
“It’s not that people ‘can’t’ think for themselves, it’s that they simply will not.”
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If anybody is a member of a church where people don’t think, they’ve got bigger problems than this one to handle!