I was thinking about the 'he told people to inject Lysol' line.
It occurred to me people will swallow whole the first level reporting of any story that confirms their confirmation bias.
In this case, people had Trump so much they're willing to believe the worst about him. Even willing to accept edited clips obviously meant to look bad. Classic shoot the messenger and don't even bother with the message because the messenger is literally Devil-Hitler.
And boy does the media love to do that.
It fascinates me how even smart people suspend all rational thought in order to continue convincing themselves Trump is that dumb and cruel.
Amazing they'd think this of someone who has been in the public eye for around 40 years.
Trump never ever said 'inject Lysol' nor did he even insinuate it. It takes a person that lost in their hate of Trump or an incredibly uncurious or lazy person to take the press's account at face value.
Plus thy have remedial reading and listening comprehension skills.
Trump is a terrible speaker. He's not suave to say the least and he can be quite inelegant and inarticulate.
Whatever it is, it's people's jobs to investigate and inquire about stories sold by the press.
Which reminded of a quote often misunderstood by people who hate religion and Christianity in particular.
It's Ephesians 5:22 where it says, "wives be subject to your husband". The common erroneous interpretation of this passage is women should be submissive to their husbands.
But what they don't tell you (or probably don't even know because 99% of people never read the Bible. Too icky a book for their genius minds) but was pointed out to me is in Ephesians 5:25 it adds, "Husbands love your wives as Christ loves the Church."
Paul wasn't saying stay in an abusive and dangerous relationship. A wife should only submit to a husband who loves her like how Christ loves humanity and the Church.
It's death by a thousand cuts at this point. People believe so many misreadings of the Bible it all but killed Christianity. They want to believe the worst to justify not 'submitting' to it.
The philosophes of The Enlightenment (of which Cartesian logic is from) looked to put reason about faith. It was here notions of secularism was born. To them, Christianity was no better than superstition and I learned that they were largely wrong about this. They preyed on the backward elements that existed in the Church, and magnified it to espouse their rational views. Man can only grow through reason.
But reason for its own sake comes with its own set of problems too. St. Thomas of Aquinas looked to bridge faith and reason and perhaps we should reconsider this thought.
And part of me wonders just how hostile they really were against the Church. I think they had a natural skepticism of it but I don't think it reached the level of deep cynicism we see today.
In reality, the only way to extricate yourself from being deceived is to simply investigate it for yourself.
So next time you find yourself blindingly angry about what Trump said. try and examine it with some nuance.
Just like it takes some kind of extraordinary suspension of belief to think Paul advocated for women to be submissive for its own sake, it takes a really dubious mind to actually take at face value Trump believes it's ok to drink disinfectant.
Just like it's foolish to actually still believe these lockdowns and containment measures actually work to the degree you think. It's like trying to salvage wreckage. It's waaaayyyy too late for that and you're just mice in an experiment run by mice in lab coats. Blind leading the blind. But that's another topic.
And that's the truth.
It occurred to me people will swallow whole the first level reporting of any story that confirms their confirmation bias.
In this case, people had Trump so much they're willing to believe the worst about him. Even willing to accept edited clips obviously meant to look bad. Classic shoot the messenger and don't even bother with the message because the messenger is literally Devil-Hitler.
And boy does the media love to do that.
It fascinates me how even smart people suspend all rational thought in order to continue convincing themselves Trump is that dumb and cruel.
Amazing they'd think this of someone who has been in the public eye for around 40 years.
Trump never ever said 'inject Lysol' nor did he even insinuate it. It takes a person that lost in their hate of Trump or an incredibly uncurious or lazy person to take the press's account at face value.
Plus thy have remedial reading and listening comprehension skills.
Trump is a terrible speaker. He's not suave to say the least and he can be quite inelegant and inarticulate.
Whatever it is, it's people's jobs to investigate and inquire about stories sold by the press.
Which reminded of a quote often misunderstood by people who hate religion and Christianity in particular.
It's Ephesians 5:22 where it says, "wives be subject to your husband". The common erroneous interpretation of this passage is women should be submissive to their husbands.
But what they don't tell you (or probably don't even know because 99% of people never read the Bible. Too icky a book for their genius minds) but was pointed out to me is in Ephesians 5:25 it adds, "Husbands love your wives as Christ loves the Church."
Paul wasn't saying stay in an abusive and dangerous relationship. A wife should only submit to a husband who loves her like how Christ loves humanity and the Church.
It's death by a thousand cuts at this point. People believe so many misreadings of the Bible it all but killed Christianity. They want to believe the worst to justify not 'submitting' to it.
The philosophes of The Enlightenment (of which Cartesian logic is from) looked to put reason about faith. It was here notions of secularism was born. To them, Christianity was no better than superstition and I learned that they were largely wrong about this. They preyed on the backward elements that existed in the Church, and magnified it to espouse their rational views. Man can only grow through reason.
But reason for its own sake comes with its own set of problems too. St. Thomas of Aquinas looked to bridge faith and reason and perhaps we should reconsider this thought.
And part of me wonders just how hostile they really were against the Church. I think they had a natural skepticism of it but I don't think it reached the level of deep cynicism we see today.
In reality, the only way to extricate yourself from being deceived is to simply investigate it for yourself.
So next time you find yourself blindingly angry about what Trump said. try and examine it with some nuance.
Just like it takes some kind of extraordinary suspension of belief to think Paul advocated for women to be submissive for its own sake, it takes a really dubious mind to actually take at face value Trump believes it's ok to drink disinfectant.
Just like it's foolish to actually still believe these lockdowns and containment measures actually work to the degree you think. It's like trying to salvage wreckage. It's waaaayyyy too late for that and you're just mice in an experiment run by mice in lab coats. Blind leading the blind. But that's another topic.
And that's the truth.
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