Ignorance is now spirituality
10/05/06 - 5th Day - Early Morning. I have to tell you I have had an interesting last week or so. Ranchfest starts tonight (most folks will start arriving tomorrow and on the Sabbath), and we have been doing our best to get the place squared away and ready for company.
The fellas and I have been working on the deck and on the root cellar, and I have been working to train Pita as best I can. Training Pita is a workout, because she has to be getting close to 200 lbs. and every day she weighs more and more.
In addition to my chores around here, I have been doing my regular internet work... answering emails, writing, debating, etc. There was something I have known for awhile that has became ever more evident to me this week... in a world of general apostasy, ignorance has become spirituality. Being steadfast and simple, even if it is in heresy, apostasy, or error, is today considered being spiritual and plainspoken. It is really quite interesting.
This past week I was involved in a "discussion" with an ignorant, lying, so-called "christian counselor" who actually prides himself on how little he knows the Bible! This type of thing is now an epidemic. These people say things like this:
"Well, I may not have memorized the Bible, but..." followed by whatever un-Biblical sputum they want to spray out there. You see, today, if you can start a sentence with a disclaimer that actually slanders your enemy, then you are considered spiritual. The less you know the Bible, the more spiritual you are. Your opponent may not actually have memorized the Bible; but if he knows it better than you, then you can accuse him of it. Then you just say stuff like, "I'm just a man (woman/child, whatever). I don't know the Bible as well as you, and I am not as knowledgable about doctrine as you; but my understanding of spiritual things is based on my personal relationship with God, and isn't bogged down with book knowledge."
"I'm not an ivory tower type. I'm down in the trenches, dealing with real people with real issues."
"What does all your knowledge get you if you don't have loooooooove?" (Make sure to spew the word knowledge in a hateful way as if it is contradictory to the word love!)
Then make all the same stupid, senseless, arguments (without any context) like, "Doctrine divides", "Knowledge puffeth up", etc. If you really get on a roll, throw on a southern accent and accuse your enemy of "book learnin'".
Ignorance is now spirituality! The less you know about anything true, the more spiritual you are. Now, don't go off saying that Michael Bunker believes that knowledge is all you need, or that reading the Bible is all you need (without living it, etc.), because then you are doing the same thing the "ignorance is spiritual" crowd is now doing. Of course we know that wisdom and understanding are the perfection of knowledge, that is why people without knowledge want to pretend they have wisdom and understanding! Wisdom is rightly applied knowledge, but in no way is knowledge or Biblical literacy a bad thing, nor is ignorance and stupidity ever championed in the Bible.
It is even worse now in the "Agrarian" blogosphere. If you are a brainless twit who can use homespun lingo, then you can be popular in modern Agrarianism. Here is a hit blog entry for you. Start a blog and copy and paste this as your first blog entry, and if your blog has a catchy title like "Midwest Farmer", or "Missouri Hay Mower", then you will have a popular blog...
Soon you will find that about 40 co-ignorant bloggers will have migrated to your site, and the comments section will fill up with:
MTMilkman says - BillyBob, you hit it right on the head! You are spiritual because you don't know scripture! Forget all these pointy head ivory tower types. You mean, I am a farmer and a Christian Agrarian without ever having walked barefoot to Texas to kiss Michael Bunker's left foot, or reading the Bible? Amen Brother! Keep it up!
ChickenBabe says - Way to shoot straight BB! You are better than those people who both farm AND read and study scripture! No man should be able to tell anyone else that they are wrong, or that what they are doing is unscriptural. PHARISEES! Besides, what they are doing is wrong and they are all goin' to hell like you said!
FLHaymaker says - Yeah! I went to one of those "Agrarian" sites and they were sayin' us Papists follow the Antichrist. If I could, I would tie them to a stake and build up a fire around them and make them renounce that opinion. But until then, I agree with you... they are all goin' to hell!
Just so you know, write it down, ignorance is now spirituality. It is true in the Agrarian blogosphere, and it is true everywhere else on the internet too. The last thing you want is to know why you believe what you believe, and heaven help you if you can defend it. Snipers and slanderers are waiting out there in candyland to defame you and call you every name in the book. But they should, because, after all, you read and study God's Word and are able to put it in context and explain what is true and what is false. By doing so you become the enemy of ignorance, which by now you should know IS SPIRITUALITY.
Welcome to Amerika, 2006.
Michael
The fellas and I have been working on the deck and on the root cellar, and I have been working to train Pita as best I can. Training Pita is a workout, because she has to be getting close to 200 lbs. and every day she weighs more and more.
In addition to my chores around here, I have been doing my regular internet work... answering emails, writing, debating, etc. There was something I have known for awhile that has became ever more evident to me this week... in a world of general apostasy, ignorance has become spirituality. Being steadfast and simple, even if it is in heresy, apostasy, or error, is today considered being spiritual and plainspoken. It is really quite interesting.
This past week I was involved in a "discussion" with an ignorant, lying, so-called "christian counselor" who actually prides himself on how little he knows the Bible! This type of thing is now an epidemic. These people say things like this:
"Well, I may not have memorized the Bible, but..." followed by whatever un-Biblical sputum they want to spray out there. You see, today, if you can start a sentence with a disclaimer that actually slanders your enemy, then you are considered spiritual. The less you know the Bible, the more spiritual you are. Your opponent may not actually have memorized the Bible; but if he knows it better than you, then you can accuse him of it. Then you just say stuff like, "I'm just a man (woman/child, whatever). I don't know the Bible as well as you, and I am not as knowledgable about doctrine as you; but my understanding of spiritual things is based on my personal relationship with God, and isn't bogged down with book knowledge."
"I'm not an ivory tower type. I'm down in the trenches, dealing with real people with real issues."
"What does all your knowledge get you if you don't have loooooooove?" (Make sure to spew the word knowledge in a hateful way as if it is contradictory to the word love!)
Then make all the same stupid, senseless, arguments (without any context) like, "Doctrine divides", "Knowledge puffeth up", etc. If you really get on a roll, throw on a southern accent and accuse your enemy of "book learnin'".
Ignorance is now spirituality! The less you know about anything true, the more spiritual you are. Now, don't go off saying that Michael Bunker believes that knowledge is all you need, or that reading the Bible is all you need (without living it, etc.), because then you are doing the same thing the "ignorance is spiritual" crowd is now doing. Of course we know that wisdom and understanding are the perfection of knowledge, that is why people without knowledge want to pretend they have wisdom and understanding! Wisdom is rightly applied knowledge, but in no way is knowledge or Biblical literacy a bad thing, nor is ignorance and stupidity ever championed in the Bible.
It is even worse now in the "Agrarian" blogosphere. If you are a brainless twit who can use homespun lingo, then you can be popular in modern Agrarianism. Here is a hit blog entry for you. Start a blog and copy and paste this as your first blog entry, and if your blog has a catchy title like "Midwest Farmer", or "Missouri Hay Mower", then you will have a popular blog...
"Yessir, I was sloppin' the hogs today and I got to thinkin'. God is pretty simple, and he just wants us to do the bes' we can without all the bickerin' and arguin'. Some folks with big Biblical Agrarian sites (gee I hate titles like that, since they ain't in the Bible) think they know everything and everybody but them ain't a Christian. Well, I am livin' the life these folks just talk about. So, I don't know what the Bible says, and I caint give ya chapter and verse. Well, these folks is goin' straight to hell, because they think they know everything and hate us simple folks. The devil is in 'em, because they say God is only with their denomination or with people who think like them. You see, I may not be a theologian, but Jesus picked us simple folk to work with and he hated the religious folks. I may not know where that is in the Bible, but I love Jesus and I know he hates folks that know where stuff is and who can tell me I'm wrong about something. Jesus hates anyone who tries to tell Catholics they aren't ok, because all denominations are from hell. My ol' country church is just a simple church of farmers who speak in tongues and do divine healings. We don't need no Bible memorizing pharisees to tell us about Jesus, because we know all about Jesus. Now, I have to tell ya that I'm better than everyone else because I'm simple and because I don't know scripture. If I knew scripture I would be puffed up, but I'm not, so I'm better than you. Heck, just a year ago I got this here blog, and now I got hunderds of people out there just like me who come here every day, just to hear my wisdom. Who needs a bunch of Bible verses cluttering things up? And if anyone knows any or puts any in their blog it is because they are a Pharisee and are going straight to hell! Besides, I'm better than them. Now, I gotta go get that back 40 ready for a plow, unlike these so-called "agrarian experts" who all sit around all day typing at computers and raping nuns."
Soon you will find that about 40 co-ignorant bloggers will have migrated to your site, and the comments section will fill up with:
MTMilkman says - BillyBob, you hit it right on the head! You are spiritual because you don't know scripture! Forget all these pointy head ivory tower types. You mean, I am a farmer and a Christian Agrarian without ever having walked barefoot to Texas to kiss Michael Bunker's left foot, or reading the Bible? Amen Brother! Keep it up!
ChickenBabe says - Way to shoot straight BB! You are better than those people who both farm AND read and study scripture! No man should be able to tell anyone else that they are wrong, or that what they are doing is unscriptural. PHARISEES! Besides, what they are doing is wrong and they are all goin' to hell like you said!
FLHaymaker says - Yeah! I went to one of those "Agrarian" sites and they were sayin' us Papists follow the Antichrist. If I could, I would tie them to a stake and build up a fire around them and make them renounce that opinion. But until then, I agree with you... they are all goin' to hell!
Just so you know, write it down, ignorance is now spirituality. It is true in the Agrarian blogosphere, and it is true everywhere else on the internet too. The last thing you want is to know why you believe what you believe, and heaven help you if you can defend it. Snipers and slanderers are waiting out there in candyland to defame you and call you every name in the book. But they should, because, after all, you read and study God's Word and are able to put it in context and explain what is true and what is false. By doing so you become the enemy of ignorance, which by now you should know IS SPIRITUALITY.
Welcome to Amerika, 2006.
Michael
posted by Michael Bunker at 10/05/2006 03:46:00 AM
1 Comments:
There seems to be an overwhelming amount of people today that like to hang out in certain biblical groups, go to church, or even claim the name Christian yet, they have never seek to be grounded in the essential doctrine of the Christian faith. Those who are not grounded in sound doctrine often prove to be wandering stars that do not remain steadfast instead they wander from one opinion to another concerning scripture (Jude) and are often carried by every wind of doctrine (Eph 4). They also often like to show false humilty!
Contend for the faith! Keep up the preaching of Truth.
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