Faith, Belief and Ideology

    It's been a while now since I have launched forth into the sea of ideas, but it has occurred to me that their is a lot of confusion regarding what we do and what we think we believe about a whole range of things.  We call belief "faith," for example, and then turn around and act in faith about something that originates from our ideology and has nothing whatever to do with what we really believe.

   The politician, for example, who encourages voters to support programs that help the "poor" by giving them "free" money, food, cell phones, etc. fully understands that he is taking money from people who have legitimately earned it and is offering it to others who have not earned it.  Yet when one examines his personal finances, one finds that he has financial counselors who manage his money so that he has very little or no debt and minimize his tax liability. His money is carefully invested in the very companies he asks voters to hate.  He has created and "ideology" which he does not believe and presents it to people as something they should have faith in, at least to the extent that they would vote for him on election day.

   Focus now on the individual who is presented with this scheme.  His belief system comes largely from the synthetic environment created for him by "news" media, Facebook, the internet, movies, peer ideas, public school indoctrination.  In short, he has spent very little time honing his own personal analytical skills so that he can parse the ideas presented to him.  He has received little or no training in his home or in public school that would give him any way to challenge the validity of any ideas at all, let alone ideas that are presented to him in a way that seems to pander to his immediate needs.

   If faith can be defined as a motivation for action, it then takes on significance for the individual because it permits him to act in certain way without the tension of questioning the wisdom of his actions.  Belief, on the other hand, is  based upon a whole collection of impressions, most of which may not be scrutinized at all.  Man-made global warming, for example, is taught openly in our public schools as a fact to first grade children.  The idea is not challenged in the classroom and the student "believes" it even though the whole scheme arose out of an ideology perpetrated by the teacher to achieve future political goals.  The same is true about ideas relating to capitalism, religion. wealth, work skills, reading, math proficiency, freedom, rights, etc.  

   Without the ability to challenge and test these ideas, the individual is at the mercy of those who would manipulate him for the advancement of their own ideological goals.  

   Look around, seekers.  Have your own kids been taught to parse the ideas presented to them and question the wisdom of placing faith in whatever comes down the road?

The Frog Is Boiling

   We are now well into the fourth generation of people here in America who have been exposed to the low-information teaching goals in our public schools.  It should not be surprising to anyone that we now have millions of people who have been taught the following, either overtly or subliminally:
   1. There really is no "God" or creator.  Science has shown that everything we see around us arose as a result of "natural" forces.
    2. Since there is no supernatural origin for mankind, there is no basis for God-given "unalienable" rights to anything, especially life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  How could a non-existent "God" endow anybody with anything?
    3. Our founding fathers, since they based their views about man on this debunked idea that God endowed us all with certain rights, created a constitution which is now out-of-date and quaint, but no longer binding upon our modern "enlightened" society.  The phrase "In God We Trust" on our currency is increasingly offensive to many people.
   4.  Our founding fathers were slaveholders, rich landowners,  some fathered children by raping their slaves,  created a constitution which empowered them to become rich while keeping the poor from escaping their poverty, and a host of other "historical" accusations intended to discredit them in the eyes of our gullible children.
   5.  The wealth in America created by people somehow belongs to all of us .  The rich people got their money by exploiting their employees and overcharging for their goods and services, thus making them richer while everybody else became poorer.  These people are to be identified and their wealth stripped from them and "re-distrbuted" to the "poor."
   Yet the idea of personal freedom, which can neither be conferred upon or denied to anyone, is a Christian idea.  In order for our freedoms to be stripped from us, we first must be convinced that we never had them.  This fundamental premise has now been actively taught to our children by us as parents, by our churches, by our public schools, and our federal government.
   A steady drumbeat has been created by all of us who have tolerated this encroachment upon our society.  We now tolerate the killing of millions of our babies, the devastation of our economy, the destruction of our homes,  the subversion of our children forcing them to grow up with no useful skills or knowledge, resulting in millions of our children living day-to-day on the meager handouts from a bankrupt goverment, stripped of the dignity of earning their own way.
   Are we now so lazy and ignorant that we cannot even see the folly of all of this?
   I plead with you, seekers, to start today to rescue your children from all of this.  It is easier than you think.  Get rid of the outside influences your children have that are robbing them of learning and take charge of that process yourself!  We cannot take another whole generation of children who have no direction, no knowledge, and no motivation to be in charge of their own lives.