“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave
them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.” (Romans 1:28)
We didn’t land on two moon plus two other planets,[1] or study the outer
planets on the way out into space by means of Leftist illogic. Neither
did the technology giants,[2] who determine to
straight-jacket communication on social media according to what they deem are
acceptable facts and opinions, develop their working technology
by embracing the same irrationality they are imposing onto all of us.
Those
specific standards which had guarded societal rationality down through time are
now being discarded at an accelerating rate. Empirical[3] facts for example,
aren’t only being dis-regarded at will; but are selectively being
purged from public discourse, even as we citizens are being badgered into
accepting as true their claims, despite being demonstrably false. In
addition the First Principle of rationality known as The
Law of Non-Contradiction,[4] is effectively,
selectively[5] being ignored at will.
In
a Fact Check column that has just been introduced in our local
Summerset, Pennsylvania newspaper, The Daily American, titled
“Biden Has Condemned Violence Before,” Camilla Caldera cited several instances
documenting his decrial of violence this past Summer. The real problem
with her assertion, however, is her failure to assign the blame for the nightly
rioting on the streets to both Antifa and, to a lesser extent, Black Lives
Matter, and secondly to the Democrat mayors and other municipal
leaders. Indeed Biden was quoted as saying, “I condemn violence of
every kind by anyone on the left or the Right. And I challenge Donald
Trump to do the same.”[6] This chronic failure
of Biden to speak to the full truth leads logically to the
reaction by the Left to denounce Donald Trump’s speech that preceded (only
chronologically) the rioting that occurred at the US Capitol on January 6
(2021). The Left thereby committed two gross rational errors that led
them to frame those events as being directly incited by Donald Trump’s
speech. Firstly, they quite clearly refused to watch his speech with the
care and open mind that any scientific investigation required. And they
took no responsibility to specify which specific aspects of his speech it was
that incited the rampage. Secondly, the Left refused to accept blame for
the one hundred nights of rioting in regions that were under the jurisdictions
of Democrat leadership. This posture likewise violated the scientific
principle of the necessity of assembling and assessing the entire body of the
evidence.
Further
examples of sub-rational conduct by people who ought to know better, can be
found in my blog posting, “Leftism’s Claim to be Champions of Science is
a Gigantic Fraud.”[7] Similar themes
posted near it highlight why Leftist tactics are also cowardly.
At bottom, the denial of the strictures of logic and the
disciplines of scientific methodology leads to incoherent nonsense.
Further, Romans 1:28 indicates where this nonsense first began. This
decline can never be creative in the positive and productive sense since it
denies obligation to the firm realities of life that rationality and scientific
research absolutely demand.
[1]
https://astronomy.wikia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_that_have_visited_other_planets
[2] Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Possessing even
massive amounts of money are no guarantee of avoiding lapsing into stupidity.
[3] Empirical facts entail physical entities which can
potentially be experienced with our senses and examined by scientific
instruments.
[4] It says, “Contradictory truths cannot both be true in
the same way and at the same time.” Philosopher of science, Dr. J.P. Moreland
says that science cannot effectively function in the absence of this law. Christianity
and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation. (Baker, 1989), p.
118.
[5] I use the word, “selectively” twice for the reason
that neither of these facets of irrationality be employed uniformly since, to
the extent that they are denied, they contradict the unshakably firm aspects of
reality. For example, denying as real the
image of a concrete barrier on the highway ahead will not diminish the damage
it will cause by running into it.
[6] January 8, 2021, p. B5.
[7] www.offensivechristianity.blogspot.com, dated Nov. 20, 2020.
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