Let's think about this.
My 15-year-old son and I were pulling out of his large public high school when we spotted a bumper sticker on the back of a student's vehicle:
Apparently, this is a popular saying among "free-thinkers" (atheists, agnostics, secularists), and although "religious people are blind followers" is a standard platitude, I had not seen this particular incarnation before.
I started to laugh, but it was my son who nailed it:
"Wow, that's so ridiculous, because I'm sure she goes along with whatever belief is popular right now."
Bam! Good thinking, son!
I would bet the farm that the young woman with the bumper sticker holds the most popular, fashionable, and faddish thinking on abortion, gender/transgender/LGBTQIA, sexuality, gay "marriage", racism/sexism/classism (and "safe spaces"), environmentalism, "death with dignity", gun control, etc., etc., etc.
I don't believe for a minute that she's thought about centuries of Catholic scientists who have done the work and made the discoveries she takes for granted; I don't believe she's thought about, much less read, myriad Catholic philosophers whose entire raison d'être is the search for and love of Truth; I don't believe she's thought about where universities and schools of higher learning originated; and I am certain that she has no background in the thought and history of Western Civilization itself.
I have no doubt that her worldview is as predictable as it is disconnected to any ideas that are actually her own.
The good news is, she's young (we've all been there), and, God willing, she has many years ahead of her to start actually thinking.
Your thoughts?
