Experience

 

Dennis Prager, recently on his talk show, remarked experience will not teach people to be wise. There are plenty of old fools with tons of experience, and lots of wise young people of little experience and great wisdom.

 

What is the source of wisdom? Dennis says you cannot be good unless you are wise, and unless your spiritual and moral orientation comes from your personal love of and intimate relationship with God, the Bible, (or the holy scripture of some benevolent deity) and the Judeo-Christian value system, you cut off from wisdom and truth that come from God.

 

I as a moderate like some secularism, but pure secularism is tied to foolishness, corruption, even totalitarianism. Progressives, deny God and the Bible, so dumb, cruel, arrogant solutions are what they are going to push on society.

 

Dennis pointed out that the 12-year-olds in his childhood Jewish school had more wisdom than most any professor on any campus, for colleges are the most secular institutions in America, therefore its educated teachers are the most foolish, incompetent and unwise people in society.

 

Getting back to experience, you can gain wisdom after years of experiencing life, because you were wise from your early years and learned from what you live through. This line of thinking I attribute to Dennis because it is so true, so original, so important that I agree with it, and the reader needs access to it.

 

I as a moderate do not want to be too much against humanism or secularism, but we need God in our conversation and social dialogue. Humanism as religious humanism is wiser and richer than scientific or secular humanism alone, although all these points of view need heeding and none require suppressing.