Dennis Prager quipped not too long ago that an 8-year-old child in a Jewish or Christian school has much more wisdom than a PhD philosophy professor that is an atheist. Dennis is right and why would that be so? It seems counterintuitive/
Let us examine what wisdom is. Wisdom in moral knowledge and truth-loving, and when it is used to judge a rationale or selected behavior, these can be accepted as moral and good, or immoral and bad. They can be sanctioned as wise, or ill-advised and foolish.
Those that seek wisdom do grow in it as instructed by God that they honor, believe in, converse with and heed.
The secular professor, bright and highly educated, is usually a Leftist ideologue. He is a bureaucrat stuck in the mid-level hierarchical slot. He is ideologically pure and runs with the members of his ideological clique. There groupthink, conformity, uniformity, and 30 years in educational institutions had bred out all independent thought and all self-esteem. All that is left is his clinging to what he has: some modest status, modest income, and respectable reputation. He is a broken, angry man without a future or sense of hope or gratitude. He is miserable, unhappy, ensnared, groupist, so the system must pay for his victimized, aggrieved status, and be overthrown to make everything right. The web of lies, rationales and illusions that his ideology have fed him, now are believed by him, and not truth, goodness or realism can penetrate his group-consciousness as a cog in the institutional machine.
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