I know that most people find it odd, but I did spend a good portion of my life in the theological field. At the end of the day, what drove me out was the seminal change from people who sought knowledge and discussed things into people who depended upon inductive reasoning to determine their beliefs and refused to learn anything outside of what they had already decided was their “truth.” In the case of my own denomination of birth, we went from a doctrinal text that delved into the depths of theology to a comic book style “What We Believe.” The dumbing down of theology and teaching is what – in my opinion (and others) has led to the decline of faith in our country. It’s too easy to learn and so little effort is put into it. It was a major factor in my own path to Judaism.
Socrates said that the beginning of wisdom is realizing what you don’t know. When I started on this voyage of Constitution Thursday, it was eye-opening how much I simply did not know. It’s surprising to me that even ten years later, I feel like I am still in Constitution 101.
So when a “Professor of Government” at a large state-funded university in a “Conservative” State writes a major article claiming that the Constitution “is the problem,” I am left to wonder if it really is, or if this is just a continued dumb down of knowledge and dependence upon inductive reasoning?
