By Bill Bonner
Heresy or Truth?
RANCHO SANTANA, NICARAGUA – In the fifth century, Christian scholars counted 88 different heresies. Arianism. Eutychianism. Nestorianism. If there was a way to “offend” God, they had a name for it. One group of “heretics” argued that there was no such thing as “original sin.” Another denied the trinity. And another claimed Jesus was not divine. Which one had the truth?
Depiction of the first Council of Ephesus in 431 AD, convened by Emperor Theodosius II. It was the third ecumenical council (after the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 and the Council of Constantinople in AD 381). The patriarchs Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius of Constantinople clashed over church doctrine at Ephesus. The synod ended with Nestorius and Caelestius and their supporters being condemned as heretics. The council precipitated the first major church schism (called the Nestorian schism), which led to churches in the Sassanid Empire separating from the rest of the church. The Roman Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East finally laid their dispute to rest in a common Christological declaration issued in 1994 – a full 1563 years after the first Council of Ephesus.
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Not waiting for divine revelation, they fought it out in the streets… in wars and mass murders. Heretics were persecuted, tortured, and burned at the stake. Our subject this week is the elusive nature of truth. And today, we toy with it. We try to tease it out of public life.
“The seething resentment and unhinged attacks of what is rightly called ‘fake news’ have reached unprecedented levels of irresponsibility and dishonesty,” says Newt Gingrich, a man with more than a passing acquaintance with fakery.
But wait. He goes on to say that this unprecedented attack on fake news has been directed “against President Trump – because he is determined to pursue an agenda which benefits the American people instead of the establishment elite.”
Heresy or truth? We don’t know. Sometimes, there is no truth to tease out. Remarkably, Mr. Gingrich claims insight worthy of the Grand Inquisitor Torquemada, reaching beyond the physical world into the president’s “determination,” not just his words and acts.
Even more remarkable, he claims to know that Trump’s policies would “benefit” Americans. How does he know that? Harvard economist Peter Navarro says they would. Walk into the economics department in Cambridge and you will find a dozen others who say they won’t. They might as well be arguing about the Virgin Birth.
Mr. Gingrich has jumped in with both feet. He is not merely commenting on the vast pool of fake news. He is splashing around in it.
Newt Gingrich… evidently he did have truck with that space alien.
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The mainstream media, commentators, politicians, do-gooders – left and right – all frolic in the same swamp. And heck, we’ll jump in, too. As near as we can tell, the Trump administration poses no threat to the establishment elite.
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Source:: Acting Man
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