Opus 2024-369: Orange Feelings

I’m responding to the son of a friend who says that he could never vote for Donald Trump.  I’ve never had a conversation with him on the topic so I don’t know where he would go with this but I’m guessing that he would focus on what we Trump supporters call TDS or “Trump Derangement Syndrom”, sometimes expressed as  “Orange man bad”.  It would be an attitude about Trump that comes purely from the media hype and from all of the things that we’ve heard from the media about how nasty he is.  I’m sure his tweets would come up and his affairs from the past.

What came to me as I was thinking about this today was that if we took our attitude toward Jesus Christ based on the same sources, then we would say we would want to have nothing to do with Jesus.  Think about what the media and the academic world tells us about the God of the Old Testament.  Think about the watered down version of the Savior that they like to portray.  Would you want to base your opinion based on such blatant lies and distortions?  Coming at it from the other side, I recommend people read the entire Koran and not listen to the insipid nonsense that you hear from “influencers”.  

There is little we can do wth people who’s excuse for a mind is made up.  Fossils are once living organisms that died and had the cells replaced one at a time with rock.  You cannot breathe life back into a rock.  You cannot get a Democrat to think.  One advantage of the rock is that if you needed a paperweight it would not shift with every wind that blows by.

Do your own research.  Trust when you have to.  No one has time to investigate everything.  But don’t use it as a substitute for thinking on your own.

homo unius libri