Michael Metzler wrote on Thurs., Sept. 7, 2006, on www.poohsthink.com -- under<br>*Tim Dick: Where's the Real Journalism Folks?* "I am amazed about the rough<br>dividing line that seems to present itself when men who have a real following<br>demonstrate corruption and idiocy. There are those who sit back and see it the<br>way it is. This is usually the majority looking in on all of it. But then there are<br>those who have a real emotional iron in the fire; they have just enough social<br>identity wrapped into the person under-going criticism. These people have proven, generally, to lack basic rational skills when confronted with the corruption<br>and idiocy of the person they looked to for instruction and leadership. I have <br>seen this for so long in my own case here within what I now call the pseudo-cult<br>of Christ Church that I have become committed to the thesis, not unpopular, that<br>people are really social creatures, not
rational creatures. But there is another<br>factor that should not be over-looked; I do believe that it is the weak-willed and<br>weak-minded who often get caught up "needing" a ministry like Ligonier, or a <br>prophet-master like Douglas Wilson or RC Sproul Jr. Perhaps it is often just those kinds of people who became trapped in such a personality cult who also<br>have a hard time thinking very objectively or thinking for themselves."<br><br>Very true, Michael. But another point to be made is that people are generally<br>creatures of habit (closely related to the social creatures you refer to above)<br>that seem to prefer laziness (there are more people intellectually lazy and/or<br>intellectually dishonest than physically lazy, though I am referring to all arenas<br>here) and their comforts to confronting the evil in their midst and *really* loving<br>the truth. Unfortunately, this seems to be true of many seemingly sound<br>Christians--even those
in leadership positions. And many of these pastors, etc.,<br>if and when they do speak up, finally and truly publicly, do so only after at least<br>several others have taken the brunt of that evil. Their courage comes with<br>numbers, if at all, not just the manifest truth. And no one is automatically <br>immune to superiority complexes -- even those who make self-deprecatory<br>remarks. They would do well to remember also, "Wherefore let him that thinketh<br>he standeth take heed lest he fall" (I Corinthians 10:12). But unfortunately<br>those blinded by the image of themselves and their own, truly only apply this <br>verse to everyone but they and theirs. "True" repentance is really foreign to<br>them; their ego won't allow it. In spite of speaking scriptually sound words, <br>saving face is of most importance. The pride of life is a most grievious and<br>self-deceiving sin.<br><Scimitar><br><p> 
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