Daniel J. Flynn argues in his book Intellectual Morons that “When ideology is your guide, you’re bound to get lost. Ideology deludes, inspires dishonesty, and breeds fanaticism. Facts, experience, and logic are much better at leading you to the truth. Truth, however, is not everyone’s intended destination…PhDs, high IQs, and intellectual honors are not antidotes to thick-headedness.”[1]
Sadly, I have personally found this to be true over the years. I’ve interacted with historians, scholars, and writers of various stripes and I have been literally stunned by how they have no respect for serious scholarships, rigorous investigation, and ultimately a love for the truth.
Moreover, I have been amazed to see how they tried to get around the obvious in order to preserve their cherished ideology. I later found out that some of them would astonishingly invent things out of thin air in order to rescue their own ideology from historical oblivion.[2] This has been one of my frustrations because you simply cannot reason people out of an ideology that was not formed on the basis of reason.[3]
I have interacted with Ashraf Ezzat in the past, and I am still amazed at how a man of his stature would put his credibility on the line by making fantastically risible statements and by relying on shaky foundations. Here are a few examples from his new article:
“Contrary to what western orientalists and scholars have for so long believed, Messiah has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus Christ or Western spirituality for that matter…
“At the core of this whole Messianic culture is ancient Arabian/tribal tradition intimately interwoven with pagan myths. During the centuries leading up to the birth of Christianity, various cults known as `Mystery Religions‘ spread throughout the Pagan world.
Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the new book Zionism vs. the West: How Talmudic Ideology is Undermining Western Culture. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.
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