What do these three things have in common:
- A junior high principal congratulating her honor-roll students by comparing them to Albert Einstein.
- A well-known scientist debunking an uneducated inventor, comparing the inventors theories with that of those who believed the Earth to be flat.
- A clergyman strongly rebuking "worldly sinners", telling them that he is only doing this because according to the Bible, he is commanded to.
I've witnessed these 3 things recently, and what all 3 of them have in common is that their analogies are all totally and utterly WRONG!
It always amazes me that if you say something emphatically enough, everyone around you will agree with you, no matter how wrong you are. What is so incredible about above examples is that the primary people in the examples are in fact the ones proved to be wrong by the examples they themselves have given!
Let's think about it: Do you think Albert Einstein was ever congratulated by his teachers in his early-education? No, Albert Einstein was not an honor student. His teachers said he was 'retarded' and would never amount to anything. His teachers were WRONG!
Was it the educated scientists who first proved that the World was not flat? No, it was the educated scientists who wanted Christopher Columbus killed for promoting such heresy as to suggest the World might not be flat. These scientists were WRONG!
Did Jesus Christ walk the Earth, condemning and rebuking the lost and the sinners? No, according to the Bible, it was the religious people of the day that condemned Jesus for living among the sinners. The only recorded rebuking that Jesus did was when he was rebuking the religious leaders, who were looking down their noses at others who were different than them, while they themselves were secretly harboring evil. Guess what? The religious leaders were WRONG!
If you don't think history repeats itself, you don't have to look far to find that even today, the misfits, the down-trodden, and those adventurers who dare to question the mindset of the vast majority are looked down on and dismissed as worthless, unimportant idiots. And this is WRONG!
Think about it.
(Sorry, just needed to get this off my chest...)
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