Posted: 03/23/09

Are Conservative Christians Ignorant and Less intellectual?

Dr. David M. Berman                                                                             www.wakeupandsmellthetruth.com

There is no doubt about what the so called "progressives" (a fancy word for regressive socialists) feel about the intelligence of Christian conservatives. We all hear it from the elite media, it should be obvious just from their attack on Sara Palin alone. You know the inferences of Christian conservatives as being a bunch of hay-seeds, ignorant of enlightened elitist's world views. There is no end to it. Remember what they say about Obama. There is a rush to make him the savior and clearly the left sees him as intellectually superior to all those stupid Rush Limbaugh listeners.

The "Progressives" (spare me that absurd title) have been pushing social and economic policies that have nothing to do with intellectual prowess, in fact just the opposite. When we examine factual evidence we can only come to the conclusion that it is not Christian conservatives that are ignorant and less intellectual. In fact it is the elitists "progressives" (Again, what a misapplied term).

For the purpose of making my point in this article I will refrain from making it a so typically "Christian article." I will not bring in matters of faith in this at all. I am going to simply and logically address some obvious things that only a person of "secular, socialist faith" would deny. Let me make this plain; I am not talking Republican and Democrat. I am talking constitutional conservative and liberal (progressive)

1)      Under the Presidency of Jimmy Carter we were told that the establishment of a federal department of education would increase education and make a huge impact for the positive on our education system. Let's look at the facts:

·         In 1979 it started as a department with a cost of $14.5 billion. By 2002 it grew to spending $ 47.6 billion. What are the results? Every academic indicator of education has dropped. Test scores for example have dropped significantly.

·         Not one improvement has come from the unconstitutional (see 10^th amendment) federal intrusion in education. (See Cato policy recommendations for 108^th congress)

2)      Under President Lyndon Johnson there was what is known as "The war on poverty." Johnson and his fellow liberals decided that they were going to end poverty by expanding government poverty spending. What happened?

·         Teen pregnancy rapidly increased, the black family was decimated by the encouragement to have unwed pregnancies. In fact the poverty rate among African Americans dropped significantly from 87% in 1940 to 47% in 1960 before the "War on poverty." In the 1970's after the "War on poverty" started, there was only a 1% drop in the poverty rate. Since then the inner cities have become a total disaster. Big city have been mostly run by liberals and that has shown to be a failure based on every relevant statistic (not feelings, but rather facts), (See Thomas Sole article "War on poverty revisited, August 2004).

3)      The liberal Republican Richard Nixon got us off the gold standard. What happened?

·         We now have currency that is based on nothing and that has caused the decline in the value of the dollar. Since there is no standard at all, the government simply prints money at will with no standard holding it back. The actual purchasing power of the Dollar has fallen to under 5 Cents as compared to 100 years ago. What caused it? The massive expansion of government spending exacerbated by the unwise decision to go off the gold standard. 

4)       The liberals tell us that raising taxes is the way to prosperity. What really happens?

See my article on taxes at the following link. It will open your eyes with facts: http://www.worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-1676/Brannon-Howse/Rev-Dr-David-M-Berman-ThD

I could write example after example of the factual disasters caused by liberal policies. The above are just a few of those examples. So here is the question; When a Christian conservative points out the factual destruction of big government policies on the family, education, the economy, and the list goes on, why are they referred to as lacking intellectual capacity? Why is it that failed policies supported by those who advocated them are somehow enlightened? It is simple. The very people, who accuse Christian conservatives of being ignorant believers in what they can't see, are themselves, ignorant believers in what history plainly smacks them in the face with.

The ideology of liberals is nothing more than blind faith in their historical failures cloaked in compassion. What a bad joke that is. It is in this mindset that they hate conservatives and proudly call themselves "progressives." This word is supposed to imply that anyone who is conservative is against progress.

1)      They say we are backward because we believe that there is a creator based on the evidence of creation. They believe in something coming from nothing.

2)      They say it is compassionate to help poor people and that must mean the government spending money. We say poor people must be helped in the private sector and held accountable for their actions. For example, we think you should not reward bad behavior. Liberals think it is compassionate to reward bad behavior and perpetuate the behavior. That is neither intellectual nor logical.

3)      They believe people who can't afford a house, buy one, and are ready to lose it, should be bailed out by the people who made good decisions. We believe that people who bought houses they could not afford should lose them unless they can work out a deal with their lender.

4)      They believe that secular humanistic reason is the answer to all our problems. They often sight religion as causing wars. We believe that trusting human reason alone has proven in history to be a disaster. We also allow history to point out that by far more people were killed in wars by atheists (See facts about deaths in communist countries like China, Soviets, and Cambodia etc.).

The intellectual facts are on the conservative side, not with the liberal socialist progressives. Clearly no system is without faults due to humans running things. However our founding fathers were clear that limited Constitutional government is the only chance for the principles of liberty to thrive. It is both illogical and ignorant to trust government centralized power. If you trust government centralized power after you study history, you are an intellectually challenged (to be politically correct) ignorant fool.

By Rev. Dr. David M. Berman Th.D. Click here for bio and archived articles