{"id":9891,"date":"2019-03-08T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T19:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9891"},"modified":"2019-03-08T14:58:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T19:58:55","slug":"cheap-grandiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9891","title":{"rendered":"Cheap grandiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Mohler, the Very Mightiest Theologian of Them All, exemplifies the intellectual corruption of theology.  <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When clear Scriptural teaching is nullified to ordain women in ministry, consistency indicates it inevitably must be nullified for LGBT inclusivity as well.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheBriefing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheBriefing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ka3JFLqZ1\">https:\/\/t.co\/0ka3JFLqZ1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albertmohler\/status\/1103714244854333440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Before an intellectually honest man cites Scripture as authoritative guidance, he establishes that it is a trustworthy source.  In the instant case, he investigates &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Does a supernatural being exist?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>If so, is the supernatural being the one that <i>Abraham<\/i> was so proud of?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>If so, did that supernatural being superintend the creation of Scripture?<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>If so, are any of the Bibles we have today an accurate rendering of the text whose production was superintended by Abraham&#8217;s supernatural being?<\/ul>\n<p>As we all know, not one of those claims has ever been proved.  Indeed, after millennia of trying, nobody has ever adduced a scintilla of objective evidence in favor of any of those propositions.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how theologians get around the problem: They grandly declare themselves presuppositionalists &#8212; meaning they presuppose the truth of each of those claims &#8212; and set to minute parsings of the texts and ordering people around.  And, believe it or not, more often than not that pack of preening frauds get away with it &#8212; including constricting their neighbor&#8217;s Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness.<\/p>\n<p>There is a reason why there has been a tremendous improvement in the quality of life since Newton got bonked on the head by that apple, and religion has nothing to show for itself but misery: Facts matter.  Gen-u-ine Ph.D. or not, Albert Mohler would wash out of a good science&#8211; or engineering&#8211; or law school about halfway through his freshman year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Mohler, the Very Mightiest Theologian of Them All, exemplifies the intellectual corruption of theology.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9891\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9891"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9898,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}