They say if you want to understand how the world works, notice it in small affairs and then apply that same awareness to bigger ones, where the stakes are higher.
Take a simple game, street football for example. Even there someone will try to cheat, someone will lie and that’s just a game in the street with very little.
Now move to professionals, The incentives are higher, so the manipulation becomes more serious, referees, match fixing, players cheating. That’s why regulations exist, and why they keep improving to fight that constant tendency.
In wordly affairs, leadership is probably the highest aim for people. And following the same pattern, politics becomes one of the nastiest, most dishonest businesses there is.
Yet for us believers, something strange happens...
We somehow trust so called religious leaders and scholars automatically not based on verification, not based on skepticism or even reason, even though the stakes here are supposed to be higher than any worldly affair.
But we don’t question. We trust authority. It seem we confuse trusting God with trusting these who speak on his behalf.
Most of us don’t even read history, and those who do lack the care or scrutiny it requires, we don’t bother to undertand other people’s perspectives or motives, it all black and white, we let go of our reason the very thing that defines us as human and we follow blindly.
And most of these figures, and for a long time now, are not producing original thought. They repeat what they were taught, copy-paste. Sometimes, most of them if we are honest they barely passed their high school final exams, they got the minimum required to move forward into higher education, just enough to get through, leaving them with very little options anyway, yet we elevate them to speak on the deepest questions of existence.
In any other field, we would demand more. Yet here we are turning to them to understand what suppose to be waht matter most.
So why is that, Isn’t that hypocrisy? Doesn’t that reveal our true priorities, what we actually really care about?