I’m continue to read Letters and Papers from Prison. I have finally the complete text of “After Ten Years.” Bonhoeffer describes stupidity, as an intentional unwillingness to see through deception, a refusal to seek the wisdom of the Lord. For me this is scary stuff, because I see it going on in the U.S. now. It’s not about IQ; it’s a response to an upsurge of political or religious power. People brush aside facts as inconsequential.
As a veteran of the SBC Church Struggle years ago, I saw this happen a lot. Good people who refused to see, refused to hear—lest they turn and be saved.
The great tragedy is that willful stupidity, intentional blindness/deafness if you will, infects groups of people, and renders them vulnerable to misrule by tyrants.
If scientists are right, and our world is ticking away toward ecological meltdown, then we can expect God to call on us to throw our lives away on behalf of the children of the future, from whom we have borrowed and are squandering the world.
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