There is not much difference between a Champ and a Chump, but unfortunately today, too many of those who champion causes, are in the end, just chumps.
I was reading today an article from Apologetics Press: Frauds in Science by Wayne Jackson which demonstrated how some Evolution Scientists commit fraud in their pursuit of destroying religion. It started with this paragraph:
With a cultic-like aura surrounding them, these men and women are seen as the paragons of virtue in the intellectual community. They are a priesthood, arrayed in white apparel, tinkering with test tubes and peering through microscopes in a sophisticated "holy of holies." I am speaking, of course, of the twentieth century scientist.
After providing documented examples of good old fashion fraud the article concludes with two particularly good points:
- [that] There is an important lesson that many Christians need to learn from situations such as these.
- This, at the very least, should suggest caution in accepting the claims that evolutionists make from time to time.
It seems that in the pursuit of ideology, no one is beyond self-deception, let alone public deception. In another article from Apologetics Press: From "In Place of God" to "God's Place" - by Eric Lyons comes a story about the arrogance of some scientists in their determination to kill off God; and the pleasant change to hear some admit that it won't happen anytime soon.
- Even the title of a recent New Scientist article, which reported on the symposium, changed from last year's arrogant heading, "In Place of God," to this year's more sober title, "God's Place in a Rational World"
- Edward Slingerland of the University of British Columbia...."Religion is not going away," he announced. Even those of us who fancy ourselves rationalists and scientists, he said, rely on moral values - a set of distinctly unscientific beliefs.
One wonders why it is that we sophisticated highly educated western luminaries, who preach so much about facts and science, and truthfullness and honesty, deliberately prefer fantasy to reality; deliberately prefer lies when the truth stands in opposition to our ideologies.
Another arena in which good old fashion fraud is perpetrated, and in which we prefer ideology to truth, is that of politics. When it comes to the Middle East, the Anti-Semites hiding behind a facade of human rights, constantly seek to blind us to the truth.
Recently Palestinian Media Watch published an article entitled: Day after Annapolis: Palestinian Authority TV shows" Palestine" map erasing Israel - by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - November 28, 2007
- Just a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the Annapolis peace conference pledged to negotiate a peace treaty by the end of 2008, Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority continues to paint a picture for its people of a world without Israel.
- An information clip produced by the Palestinian Authority Central Bureau of Statistics and rebroadcast today on Abbas-controlled Palestinian television, shows a map in which Israel is painted in the colors of the Palestinian flag, symbolizing Israel turned into a Palestinian state.
- The description of all of the state of Israel as "Palestine" is not coincidental, and is part of a formal, systematic educational approach throughout the Palestinian Authority. This uniform message of a world without Israel is repeated in school books, children's programs, crossword puzzles, video clips, formal symbols, school and street names, etc. The picture painted for the Palestinian population, both verbally and visually, is of a world without Israel.
- The fact that this campaign continues before the ink on the Annapolis agreement is even dry appears to contradict the central promise of the Palestinians at the Annapolis conference: that Israel has a right to exist.
- Palestinian Media Watch Homepage
One is left incredulous that the bleeding hearts club fans simply cannot understand simple direct language; especially when that language stands in direct opposition to the bleeding hearts ideology. The simple fact is, and it is so often stated, that there can never be peace with Israel, ( Hamas: We'll never recognize Israel) because the Muslim leadership hate Jews, and have every intention of taking back the land that never belonged to them in the first place.
Palestine belonged to the Ottoman Empire before falling under the Mandate, and then when war broke out, the West Bank 'fell under the control of' Jordan. The only reason that the Palestinians have suffered so long, is that the Arab world set out to kill the Jews before they could create a state. Had the Arab world created a Palestinian State, perhaps today the people of Palestine would not be suffering as they do, and certainly they would have more land than the Palestinian leadership is now demanding. The 1947 UN Resolution 181 plan was welcomed by Jews but rejected by Arabs.
While all the 'face saving' anti-semites beat their breasts over the fate of the Palestinians, one only has to read the news reports about what is happening in surrounding Arab States to realise that the danger of widespread regional catastrophe is laid squarely and fairly at the feet of Hamas and other totally mad people who care not a wit for what people anywhere suffer, as long as their ideological desires are fulfilled.
Hussein Sharief.... said that until recently, those countries had been reluctant to engage with Israel, "but time is passing, and people are recognizing more and more that the only way to solve conflicts is to have a serious debate and negotiate between the Arab countries and Israel."
Such is their own dire predicament at the moment, that Hamas is actually trying to find a way to organise a 'hudna' - a truce - that will allow them to regroup and re-arm, without loss of face.
And while bleeding hearts cry for the poverty of the Palestinians, a 'hudna' is not peace, and nor is it a recognition of Israel. And "where pray tell is it?", one may ask, that the money for all these arms comes from? The lions share of monies paid to the Palestinians comes from the USA, and the sad and tired fact is, that the West is paying for the terrorism, because it pretends that the money actually benefits the ordinary Palestinian. As it is, the only way for the Palestinians to establish a 'state', is for the world to fund it. But then what? More War?
World powers gather to fund Palestinian State
- Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is seeking US$5.6 billion dollars (AUS$6.5 billion) spread over 2008 to 2010 for an ambitious development plan to underwrite a promised state and tackle economic hardship in the Palestinian territories.
Note: The United States provides more than $2 billion a year in aid to Israel, its closest Middle East ally and single largest recipient of US foreign aid. Egypt, the first Arab state to make peace with Israel, receives about $1.3 billion. Both nations would receive more money over the coming decade under a package announced this year.
Whilst Jordan has been asking Egypt to crack down on Hamas, Egypt, the receipient of so many US dollars, is reluctant to do so. (Jordan seems to be the only Middle Eastern Country with both commonsense and integrity.) Why would the Palestinian leadership who can not ideologically accept an Israeli State, be less inclined to 'take the money' and then do whatever they want than the Egytians.
But my point in this article is not about solving the problems in the Middle East, but about pointing out how 'ideology' is ultimately the 'root of evil' in the world. We cry for the Palestinians and blame Israel for everything, while failing to realise that those whose side we take, care less for the hardships of the people than we do. Our own ideology serves the purpose of the other, but in order for it to become subservient, we must first sell out our consciences.
And therein lies the rub with evolution. There is not now nor has there ever been any substantiated proof that the 'Theory of Evolution' is actually a material fact. In that, it stands on par with it's own accusation against 'faith in God'. Why then do people, whilst fully admitting that they have a theory and no fact, nevertheless present their ideology as 'fact'?
Because they have malfunctioning consciences; or to be more precise, want something that will relieve their consciences of their troubles. Religious morality becomes 'secular Moral judgment', a process in which "the conscious mind develops a plausible rationalization for the decision already arrived at through [secular] moral intuition" (Is 'Do unto Others' written into our Genes?)
At the End of the Day, there is no actual truth in Society. Truth is just whatever we perceive via our own ideologically motivated Political Camera Angle.
R.P.BenDedek
Email: rpbendedek@hotmail.com
R.P.BenDedek is the Author of 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran' and a guest columnist at Magic City Morning Star News.
"The King's Calendar" [ on sale - while the economic recession is on], is a chronological study of the historical books of the Bible (Kings and Chronicles), Josephus, Seder Olam Rabbah, and the (Essene) Damascus Document of The Dead Sea Scrolls. See Chapter Precis page.
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