New normal: 'Just fake it!'

When I was a kid, my dad would sometimes carry with him the latest issue of the Journal of American Medicine when he thought he was going to have to kill time somewhere. For example, whenever we went to Cedar Point amusement park, only an hour's drive from home, my dad would go off by himself to some air-conditioned theatre or arcade hall, etc., and sit and read JAMA.

On the independent news website Daily Signal was an article last week revealing "The Growing Problem of Fake Science," as the headline read. The piece reported that "respected industry leaders say unseen interests are exerting enormous control over research and what is—or isn’t—published. Their startling claim: that a large percentage of articles in prestigious medical journals are simply not to be believed."

The article went on to state, "Besides Marcia Angell (a former 20-year veteran of the New England Journal of Medicine), another powerful voice is weighing in. The current editor-in-chief of the British journal Lancet, Dr. Richard Horton, wrote a scathing editorial, saying: 'Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Science has taken a turn towards darkness.'"

Just the other week I clicked on an article highlighted on Drudge Report about "Fake Law," where U.S. judges are increasingly falsifying judicial precedent, etc., to support ludicrously unjustifiable, unfair rulings.

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My journalism professors at Ohio State would be rolling over in their graves to see what's become of newspapers and news reporting and the absolute abandonment of journalistic principles and ethics.

It was in News Reporting 101 at Ohio State that my favorite professor, Henry J. Schulte, taught us there are two types of people in the world: those who want the truth and those who don’t. The latter prefer to live in a comfortable reality that is perceived by them to promote their best personal interest, etc.

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The Bible says the truth of God’s Word will commend itself to a man’s conscience that wants the truth. When it doesn’t commend itself to someone, it’s simply because what the person’s looking for is something different.

The reason God uses words to communicate and do His work is because there’s a spirit transaction that takes place through the sharing of words, ideas and concepts.

“If God is a Spirit, you can understand why He gave you a spirit, because essence needs a point of contact,” explains Jordan. “Your spirit has intelligence; it has intellect. Just like you and I communicate with words and we know things because of the words that we communicate, we know the things of God because God has communicated them to us by words.

“People look for the Spirit of God to be working out in the physical realm, but the Spirit of God, if He’s a Spirit, is going to work with your spirit. The spirit is what gives humans the capacity to communicate with each other and with God.

“Now, lost people can’t communicate with God, but their spirit still works; they can communicate with other humans with their spirit as well as ‘the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience.’ ”

"The spirit is connected to the soul, which represents each person’s own personal identity. The soul has a bodily shape and the capacity to animate the body and use the body as a vehicle.

"This is something people don’t grasp the reality of: It’s your soul that goes to hell and there’s a spiritual fire in the spiritual realm that will torment the soul the same as a fire in the physical realm will torment the flesh."

(new article tomorrow)