yes, and it sounds crazy but they are among my best friends, and I grew up with a parent with a full federal government career.
A lot of very, very nice, likeable, smart, highly-credentialed, good, kind, well-meaning, well-paid people in positions of power who truly believe that they are doing good for the people of this planet. They beli…
yes, and it sounds crazy but they are among my best friends, and I grew up with a parent with a full federal government career.
A lot of very, very nice, likeable, smart, highly-credentialed, good, kind, well-meaning, well-paid people in positions of power who truly believe that they are doing good for the people of this planet. They believe that their colleagues are all just as good people as they are (and our government is not trying to kill us!).
And that makes them very dangerous.
I am really the odd man out. They see me as stubborn and easily misled by propaganda. Plus, I don't have an advanced degree......
No one said Satan was an idiot. He is nefarious and has planned this out well by indoctrinating everyone in higher learning (also in the K-12 government school system) to believe that what they are doing is for the good of all.
I'm willing to bet most, if not all of your friends an NIH, are non-Christians. If that is the case, then the government has become their god. This was really an 'AHA!' moment for me not too many years ago trying to understand how so many could be compliant with an out of control state or federal government.
When I was younger, "church" seemed to be more of a part of people's lives -- normal, even. Everyone I knew had a place they went to worship (or gather). But these days it seems more normal for people to randomly declare (in almost any context): "I'm not religious." or "Christians don't believe in Science (said with a derisive sneer)" or even "I'm an atheist."
Never would anyone have ever admitted to that scandalous non-belief, back in the day.
I've concluded that these non-Christians (who could be atheists or worship something else, probably without realizing) have decided that if you are a scientist, you cannot believe in God. And vice versa.
yes, and it sounds crazy but they are among my best friends, and I grew up with a parent with a full federal government career.
A lot of very, very nice, likeable, smart, highly-credentialed, good, kind, well-meaning, well-paid people in positions of power who truly believe that they are doing good for the people of this planet. They believe that their colleagues are all just as good people as they are (and our government is not trying to kill us!).
And that makes them very dangerous.
I am really the odd man out. They see me as stubborn and easily misled by propaganda. Plus, I don't have an advanced degree......
No one said Satan was an idiot. He is nefarious and has planned this out well by indoctrinating everyone in higher learning (also in the K-12 government school system) to believe that what they are doing is for the good of all.
I'm willing to bet most, if not all of your friends an NIH, are non-Christians. If that is the case, then the government has become their god. This was really an 'AHA!' moment for me not too many years ago trying to understand how so many could be compliant with an out of control state or federal government.
^^THIS^^
When I was younger, "church" seemed to be more of a part of people's lives -- normal, even. Everyone I knew had a place they went to worship (or gather). But these days it seems more normal for people to randomly declare (in almost any context): "I'm not religious." or "Christians don't believe in Science (said with a derisive sneer)" or even "I'm an atheist."
Never would anyone have ever admitted to that scandalous non-belief, back in the day.
I've concluded that these non-Christians (who could be atheists or worship something else, probably without realizing) have decided that if you are a scientist, you cannot believe in God. And vice versa.
Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, etc., are all part of God's toolkit.
I never got the people that tried to separate God from science. He created it all!
Really open-minded folks--which is what science demands (being open-minded, able to change one's mind when data do not support hypothesis).
They are the "good Germans" of this age.
exactly.
And thank God you do not.