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Confessions of a Homeschool Dad
Sep. 14, 2006
Postmodernism isn't all that modern...
Have you ever heard people argue emotionally? It's a postmodern technique that says, basically, the feelings / emotions that a person has are true, regardless of fact.
For instance, I was listening to Sean Hannity recently and he played a little clip of when he was "debating" Rosie O'Donnell. Her entire arguement was speaking loudly, with passion, that something is obviously true.
When asked for proof, she said (loudly, of course) things like, "Do you read?! Do you read the British papers!?!" Asked which papers or what stories, her answer was basically that the "facts" of which she was convinced was "everywhere!"
In other words, she didn't have any actual proof for her theories. She was convinced in her own mind that they were true and therefor - POOF! - they were true.
POSTMODERN DEBATE IN ANCIENT TIMES
This is why it is basically impossible to debate (in its classic meaning) postmodern people. Debate requires the presentation of a position and then facts to back it up. Postmodernism has no facts but what someone feels.
I used to think that this was something relatively new. It turns out that I was wrong.
Back in Jesus' day, as you may recall, the Pharisees were seeking to get rid of Jesus. And one time, they sent out a crew of people to go get him while he was teaching at the Feast of Tabernacles. When they came back without Him, here's what happened:
Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why have you not brought Him?"
The officers answers, "No man ever spoke like this man".
[Confessor Translation: "Gee - He seems to be right about a lot of stuff...."]
Then the Pharisees answers then, "Are you also deceived? Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed."
[Confessor Translation: "You morons! No important people believe Him, so He can't be right. Everyone that is listening to him has a demon!"]
Nicodemus (he who came to Jesis by night, being one of them) said to them, "Does our law judge a man before it hears him and know what he is doing?"
[Confessor Translation: "Ummmm...you seem to have already convicted Him of something. Should you, you know....listen to Him and see if He is speaking the truth?"]
They answered and said to him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."
[Confessor Translation: "Are you some kind of moron, too? No prophet could ever come out of a dirty, rural, out-of-the-way, unimportant place like Galilee!"]
-John 7:45-52
Did you see how they "proved" Jesus couldn't be a prophet because of their feelings about Galilee (which was, back then, sort of the armpit of Isreal)?
Here's the great part in the notes of my study Bible:
"Actually, the prophets Jonah, Hosea, Nahum, and perhaps Elijah, Elisha, and Amos were from Galilee or close to it."
Yeah....but, other than those guys....
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Abiding in the Vine!