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Tag: forced affirmation

Itching Ears and Mad Prophets

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Wed Jan 22, 2014 at 09:06:46 AM EST
Tags: Dave Agema, Republican National Committee, Republican National Platform, gay marriage, illegal immigration, creeping sharia, "itching ear disorder", donor blacklisting, smear campaign, selective outrage, Reductio ad Hitlerum, forced affirmation, Saul Anuzis, Ken Braun, Betsy DeVos, Leon Drolet, Nolan Finley, Kathy Hoekstra, Dennis Lennox, Paul Welday, L. Brooks Patterson, Rick Snyder (all tags)

My pastor, when he's discussing contemporary culture from either the sanctuary pulpit or the classroom lectern, likes to refer to what he calls, "itching ear disorder." The primary Scripture reference is 2 Timothy 4:3-4, referring to a time when people will have no further interest in the truth, and won't tolerate listening to anything that contradicts their philosophical predispositions. As a student of Scripture, I can say with some certainty that the prophets and apostles were well acquainted with this disorder. Hosea even wrote about a time when hostility against the truth would become so great that those who insist on speaking it would be considered fools and maniacs. According to a disputed George Orwell quote ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."), "itching ear disorder" isn't exactly an unusual condition in the human experience.

And this brings us to the current philosophical skirmish involving Michigan's Republican National Committeeman, which involves the latest escalation by some unsavory elements within the Michigan Republican Party, who seem to be in a desperate quest to reclaim lost relevance.