I was reading about the Contra Celsus, a document written by Christian apologist Origen in 250 AD to a Roman pagan critic of Christianity. I can’t help but think how the conception of religious thought/philosophy in the modern west is so rudimentary and basic compared to thinkers from over 1800 years ago. For example, several years ago there was a major debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye, a Christian literalist and a strict materialist respectively. Both of these views are basically laughed at for being poorly thought out and incoherent conceptions of the world and existence by BOTH Celsus and Origin in the nearly 2000 year old Contra Celsus. Why does modern “intellectual” debate regarding existence seem so dumbed down and limited after all this time and with all of our compiled knowledge available to us? It seems almost artificially enforced.
That’s when I realized - it is. Those who run societally have intentionally dumbed down intellectual discussions regarding metaphysics and epistemology - the discussions involving the nature of reality and knowledge itself - because if this were allowed, humans would at large would be able to attain a far more coherent and logical ability to account for what is and is not true. Take the Holocaust narrative for example, or the strict narrative surrounding evolutionary theory - these things completely fall apart when you try to analyze them from the perspective of philosophy insofar as how true we can actually claim them to be vs how true the modern elite what you to think of them as being. In this assault against classic philosophy the Jews have cut off those of the modern world from truly understanding the Truth - based in Christian thought - in order to relegate us to the literal child tier of intellect our apparent superiors possess.