by Lawrence Wilson, MD

THE POWER OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT

This is a rather unusual article in that it is a philosophical one, not a strictly practical one, as are most on this website. However, it has very practical implications, such as improved health and far greater spiritual and mental development. This is not the same as intellectual development, which is often greater among non-Christians, at times. However, these intellectual people often lack even the rudiments of manners, common sense and decency. In contrast, the development of which I speak usually gives a person wisdom to endure trials and to succeed in every area of life.

This article is not meant to offend anyone. It is meant to help you understand that not everyone thinks the same way. This fact is not appreciated by many people. As a result, many very honest people are fooled and often taken advantage of by politicians, teachers, partners and others who think it is okay to be shallow, to lie, to think very narrowly and other defective thinking methods explained below.

WHAT IS MEANT IN THIS ARTICLE BY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT?

Christian thought means living by the principles found in both the Old and New Testament of the bible. It means understanding, and doing one’s best to follow, the Ten Commandments of Moses, the Golden Rule and other simple teachings in the Book of Proverbs, the five books of the Old Testament and some of the New Testament as well.

The New Testament is unusual because it contains a lot of repetition, and many letters written back and forth between the followers of Christ. Because of the varying contexts, one must read more carefully for context or otherwise one can be led astray. This is less of a problem in the Old Testament, which is more of simply a written history with a single perspective in most places.

WHAT CHRISTIAN THOUGHT IS NOT

Christian thought, as used in this article, is not about going to church every Sunday, although of course this is fine to do if one is so inclined. It is also not about observing holidays, visiting the sick or elderly, or performing specific rituals associated with any Jewish or Christian holidays.

This is important because some people confuse the observance of holidays and rituals with a truly religious or spiritual outlook on life. Rituals and observances serve as reminders for many people of the principles of the religion, and they have value for this. However, too many people go through the motions of observing Easter or Passover, for example, yet they are missing “the spirit of the law”. This means that they have either forgotten, never learned, or do not want to live as the bible commands us, and thus they do not reap the benefits described in this article.

WHAT IS MEANT BY THE POWER OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT?

It means that some principles taught by the Jewish and Christian holy books build character, give a positive direction to one’s life, keep one out of trouble in hundreds of ways, teach love, forbearance, forgiveness and other positive values, and for these reasons help a person lead a much more happy, productive, prosperous and safe life. This is the power of this thinking.

The best way to illustrate this is to contrast this kind of thinking with some other modes of thinking that exist today on planet earth. I will offend some readers with these examples, but each person is free to disagree with me, and I think time will prove me right.

One theme that runs through most of these examples is the person does not want to be restrained by the apparently limited belief system or behavior system imposed by the Hebrew and Christian bible. This opens these people to a pandora’s box of possibilities that often leads them astray. It is not that this is wrong, but it often overwhelms them with possibilities that are not true or that are impractical or unworkable, which they do not realize as they simply do not have the experience or wisdom to see it.

Example #1. The “new age” and often anti-intellectual approach that whatever feels right is what a person should do. This is very common today. It is what is taught in almost all high schools and colleges throughout the world. It is the reason I would never send a child to most public or even private high schools or to most colleges, as this poison is fed to the minds when they are extremely vulnerable to it by either unthinking professors, or in may cases by those who intentionally want a much-headed nation of slaves in America and elsewhere.

The problem with having no rules to follow, and relying on one’s feelings more and the intellect and logical thinking less is that one often wallows in wishy-washy ideas with little way to grasp and process them. The bible, for example, sets up specific rules such as always telling the truth, acting with politeness, and not stealing, cheating and so on. Without these, most people would drift into activities and attitudes that waste their time and ruin their bodies. This is the fate of most people. They stay up late, waste years on the phone, on Facebook, experimenting with legal or illegal drugs for “recreation” or pain relief, and they adopt moral codes and sexual behaviors that pollute their minds and bodies in various ways.

Their thinking tends to be scant, sloppy, illogical, and often superficial. They tend not to check their facts carefully, instead just listening to those who agree with them or what seems or feels good in the moment. As a result, they are not thorough and often make poor decisions. They also tend to elect incompetent and corrupt politicians who talk a good line but have little substance behind it. Some liberals easily fall into this trap.

They are prone to being taken advantage of financially, socially, sexually and in most other ways. This occurs because they have no standards by which to discern and judge who and what is best for them.

Most importantly, the new age crowd, which includes some of my friends, does not seen to progress spiritually or mentally nearly as well. It appears that even as adults, we need boundaries, discipline, rules and so on. When we turn away from these to just “do our thing”, and “live our own truth”, rather than to seek THE TRUTH that will set us free, the mind does not develop nearly as fast.

A rule of consciousness is that in order to process and learn as fast as possible, one must limit one’s field or ideology, or set up guidelines for study and experiencing reality. In other words, it is not that the new age people are wrong. It is that by not imposing any rules on themselves, there is too much to choose from and they do not process information and inputs from their environment nearly as well.

It is like giving a 5 year-old child who has just learned to read a college physics text and hoping the child will learn what is in it in the next year or two. It is just too much for most 5-year-olds. What Christian thinking does is it gives us, the 5-year-olds, rules to follow in order to evaluate new experiences. It is like at least giving the child a dictionary with his college physics book so that at least he is not totally lost in the vocabulary. It is not the whole answer, but it certainly helps most people.

Example #2. The intellectuals. These people also do not want to impose biblical rules upon their thinking. They differ from the new age people in that they are capable of deeper thinking, however. Their problem is that without a framework, once again, they are like the 5-year-olds studying college physics and they rarely get it right.

They believe the bible, the US Constitution and Bill of Rights and most old documents are just ancient history that is outmoded today, and somewhat old-fashioned and silly. Our current president in 2010, as well as most liberals, as much as say this openly. They take pride in their supposed intellect and their ability to reason things out by themselves without the help of these older documents. This is good in some ways, as they are not tradition-bound. However, in most cases it leads them astray.

Once again, it seems that human beings need to at least know and understand their religious history and philosophy that is biblical and perhaps divinely inspired. It is not enough to just think that, for example, communism sounds good so let us implement it. This is the attitude of present president and those around him. So he and his Harvard and Princeton-trained intellectuals curry favor with the dictators of the world, while ignoring our traditional allies because dictatorship and socialism seems so much easier and simpler than dealing with the checks and balances that were built into the US Constitution and other founding documents precisely to limit the power of the intellectuals who often work for the government.

In so doing, the intellectuals appear arrogant and make serious mistakes. In other words, they have not learned from history that certain systems work, while others do not work. Such mistakes divide the nation and may cost the entire nation its freedom. It also wastes their time terribly, as they have no valid starting point for their thinking other than their whims, which are often conditioned by their early life trauma and not by deep reflection.

Intellectuals and new agers share something else. Both tend to get lost in their own mind and ignore reality. They falsely believe that if they think about something enough, it will come true. Once again, there is a grain of truth in this. However, for the most part it is extremely dangerous because most people’s thinking is far too narrow. This means that most of them do not read widely enough, or do not believe certain things, and instead only trust certain doctrines or books, such as those of Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin. Adam Smith they don’t like, so they don’t read it and digest it.

This kind of lopsided thinking, which is the mark of the intellectual, is dangerous for all of us, especially for the intellectuals, who often die young in revolutions that fail.

What is missing is a broad perspective that is sometimes called wisdom. Sadly, this wisdom is not found in the textbooks today, because most are written by intellectuals. The bible, in contrast, was written by older, wiser men in most cases. It is another reason for paying attention to it.

Example #3. The religious zealots. This is another large group of people on planet earth today. They do impose biblical or Koran thinking upon themselves. However, they focus on one small part or even a single phrase in their holy books and overlook the ‘big picture’ rules such as the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments.

One might call this a focus on the letter of the law, rather than the spirit of the law. Christ spoke of such people when he described the Sadducees and the Pharisees. Many today who profess to be good Jews, Christians or Moslems do exactly this.

It is the cause of most religious strife and religious wars. It is also the cause of religious persecutions throughout the ages, events that would make the religious founders cringe, as it is such a perversion of their original intent.

Events such as the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the witch hunts and other bloody and cruel misuse of the principles of the major religions completely miss the spirit of Christ, of Moses and of the other founders.

Those who are called fundamentalists or radicals sometimes fall into this trap, though usually not the fundamentalist Christians, who still retain the whole or big picture. Other fundamentalists, however, often fall into this trap.

Example #4. The oppositionals. These are people who are unwilling to read or study any philosophical work. This is another large group of people today. Sadly, one reason for this is malnutrition, often in subtle ways, that makes it hard for some people to concentrate, to learn, and to recall what they have read. This affects at least half the American children today, I would estimate. The medical profession may give it names like ADD, ADHD, autism, delayed development and many others.

It affects adults, however, just as much as it affects the children. It is simply that the brain does not work well enough to sit quietly and read a book like the bible. The problem is far worse today than it was one hundred years ago, and that was worse than one hundred years before.

The other reason for this tendency is our deficient school system that has effectively banned the bible and even the Ten Commandments from the schoolrooms. This is nothing less than insane, and we have the ACLU and the intellectuals to thank for it. However, those of faith and wisdom have allowed it to happen instead of stopping it when it began in the 1950s and 1960s, when it would have been far easier to stop.

The sad thing about this group of people is that unlike the others above, they mean very well. They are often blue collar working people who struggle to make ends meet. However, because they refuse to really study and learn, they rarely progress too much intellectually or spiritually.

They are sometimes called the great unwashed masses. This is a derogatory term coined by the intellectuals and perhaps some new agers who look down upon this group, whom they view as somewhat crude and unrefined people. However, they are often the most honest and decent among us. I would maintain that many members of the tea party movement fall into this group, though most are Christian thinkers.

Example 5. The macho thinkers. This is a much smaller group of mostly men in modern societies. They act as if they know a lot, but they do not. As a result, they are weak and make many mistakes in their thinking. They often accept Christian principles, and try to live them. However, their immaturity prevents them from digging deep enough to practice them all the time and to really understand them in daily living. As a result, they are often seen as buffoons by the intellectuals, in particular, who can manipulate them for their own ends in elections, the workplace, marriages and so on.

Most are very hard workers who impose too many restrictions on themselves that others then take advantage of.

Example 6. The liars. This is also a smaller group, but a dangerous one. These people know the biblical principles and many were raised in Christian or Jewish homes where they were taught to them. However, they are in rebellion and their form of rebellion is to lie about most everything they please.

This, of course, is a direct violation of one of the Ten Commandments, and perhaps the most important one. As a result, they cannot be trusted at all, and they cause havoc wherever they go and whatever they touch.

Many are found in politics today, and some in government positions, business and elsewhere. Some are found in the clergy as well, especially in Europe and Africa. There they give the church a bad reputation, and indeed they give every profession a bad reputation.

This group is somewhat similar to the new agers and the intellectuals, and the zealots in that they impose their own rules and their own thinking. What distinguishes them is their propensity to lie with a straight face anytime they choose. They think this is okay, that “everyone does it”, for example. they do not realize that human evolution requires factual information and real communication is impossible if one does not tell the truth.

Their creed of “everyone does it” has unfortunately infected the schools, the colleges, the workplace and even the churches today. They prefer political correctness to the truth, and their main goal is getting ahead at any cost. They often love Karl Marx, who taught that “the ends justify the means”. In plain English, this means that if you want something badly enough it is okay to lie, cheat, steal or even kill anyone who gets in your way. This is a common theme in the movies and on television, and is basically the criminal mind. It is as anti-biblical as they come, and unfortunately it is a common type of person in some nations such as Russia today.

Fortunately, lying does not produce a healthy society and those who live this way are usually eventually found out and defeated, but only after causing havoc. Soon I hope the world will simply not tolerate such people. As soon as their tricks are identified, I hope they will be discredited and abandoned, so that the young will realize this is a dead-end path.

A person can exhibit several of the above types of thinking errors, and most do, in fact. This can complicate the picture. An article that may also help one sort this out is called Chakra Personality Types on this website. This article approaches the same subject from the perspective of a person’s level of development.

SUMMARY

This article suggests that thinking based upon ancient biblical principles such as the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule and others has a beneficial effect upon most people.

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