“Common Sense”
My father called it “Common Sense”;
My son calls it “Public Opinion”;
I call it “Devil’s Crap”.
14/2/2009
And
what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple
of the living God; as God saith: I will dwell in them, and walk among
them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore, Go
out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the
unclean thing: And I will receive you; and I will be a Father to you; and
you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. (2Cor
6:16-18)
I looked up the term, “common sense,” in the
dictionary and found:
Common sense: n. Sound judgment not based on
specialized knowledge; native good judgment.
The definition sounds right; but can we still apply
this expression today as it was used in the past?
Quite often I hear people saying:
“That is just a common sense, don’t you think?”
Or: “Surely she knows how to get there---any street
directory would tell her how to reach the place. It is just a common
sense.”
Or: “You’d think that anyone who wants to buy a bike
would go to the bicycle-shop and not to the butchers—that’s just common
sense.”
It is my belief that common sense is a thing of the
past, as is the Christian religion. I’ll explain.
In the western world, for nearly 2000 years,
Christianity was THE religion. Today, Christianity is one religion
among others. With the dethronement of Christianity, that is, its ousting
from its prominent and powerful position to its present secondary [or
tertiary] status, common sense went with it.
For just under 2000 years, truly common sense was the
common denominator that people used for understanding their daily life,
thus Christian life flourished at all levels - morally, culturally,
artistically, musically, etc.
Christianity flourished, because common sense was
embedded in the religion of Christianity, particularly the Gospel.
Notice I wrote, “common sense was embedded,”
because it is now past tense. Today people still use the cliché, “common
sense”, but as a misnomer.
Why do I say that? Because what today people call
“common sense” is nothing but “public opinion” disguised as
common sense— public opinion which has been created and
manipulated by the mass media, which is controlled by the corporative
machinery and the money changers of the temple of mammon, in order
for people to comply with their nefarious political agenda.
The Press
For several centuries now (since
mid-fifteenth century),
we have had this wondrous tool called the press. But since last century it
has become the instrument of a huge commercial conglomerate in the hands
of the plutocrats, for the ultimate purpose of pushing their political
propaganda — to establish One World Government. Consequently, in the last
three decades, common sense was drowned
in its ink and a new turn of phrase took its place, namely, a
convoluted “public opinion.”
Television
If the press failed to accomplish the destruction of
Christianity, then with the event of television, the elimination of the
Catholic Sense
among the populace was complete.
There is no better media tool for mass indoctrination that Television.
The audio-visual technology was invented in the 1920s;
then functionally and successfully developed globally in the middle of the
last century.
Today there is not a household without a television
set - apart from some rare case - and it goes without saying that many
households have more than one. For most people in our society it is
unconceivable not to have a TV set in the house.
“How can you live without television?” they say. “How
do know what is going on in the world if you don’t listen to the radio or
watch TV?” Or: “How do you entertain your kids without TV?” And so on.
So this is the situation today: if you don’t follow
what the media says is News, then you are odd … not part of this
society at all … in another world … you set yourself apart from the
world. You poor thing!
From my part, I am happy to be set apart from the
world, for Jesus said:
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“If
you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because
you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.” (John 15:19)
I
pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou
shouldst keep them from evil. (John 17: 5)
I
pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast
given me: because they are thine. (John 17:9)
And
now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to
thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that
they may be one, as we also are. (John 17:11)
I
have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they
are not of the world; as I also am not of the world. (John 17:14)
They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. (John
17:16) |
And John, in his letters:
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“Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you. (1 John 3:13)
“They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the
world heareth them.” (1 John 4:5)
Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man
love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. (1 John
2:15) |
And Saint Paul wrote:
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Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy, and vain deceit;
according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the
world, and not according to Christ (Colossians 2:8)
If
then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do
you yet decree as though living in the world? (Colossians 2:20)
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Maranatha
Nadir Martello
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