Other Commentaries on False Leaders, Both Civil and Religious

False leaders with their false ideas and those who follow them are always sucked in by arrogance, ignorance or both. The King and Queen of Hearts hold court to determine who stole the tarts, one of the legendary stories perhaps based upon the foibles of bad leadership. Altered and scaled…

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The Ignorant Know-It-Alls, Part 6: Judgmentalism or Judge Not That Ye Be Not Judged? (aka, “Does COGWA ‘Observe” Christmas?”)

  It is possible in some abstract sense that all men are equal. But according to the Bible, Aristotle, and most considerate observers, men are not equal in natural capacity, aptitude for learning, moral education, and so on. If you can get the first belief substituted for the second, on…

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The Ignorant Know-It-Alls, Part 5: Comparing Ourselves to One Another

  Click on image to view full resolution picture I apologize if it seems I am picking on the Pharisees, but my words are hardly more critical than Jesus’ own.  In essence, they represented a contradiction, which if any one of us is truly honest can find such contradictions in…

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The Ignorant Know-It-Alls, Part 3: How to Keep the Sabbath

Jewish tzitzit, or tassels, both styles Picture by Sheynhertz-Unbayg 3 And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand. 2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. 3 And he…

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