SAT Score: 1601

Why follow a moron?

It’s a good question, colleges ask it all the time when admitting students, places of employment all over America ask it when hiring new talent, even high school won’t let you play sports if you don’t pass class.

So what’s the big deal?

Well let’s take this one step at a time. Would you want a lawyer who was 13 defending you? Would you enjoy getting the miss-calculated bill from him, later after you lost your case? How long would you let a doctor who failed out of medical school operate on you? Would you let a man who’d dropped out of middle school be the president of your country? Education matters, and the lack-there-of makes a large difference.

So I ask again, why follow a moron? In any context, why? Because if you think the man who leader you in this life needs to know what he’s doing, imagine the Man who will lead the next one. Dallas Willard, a contemporary Christian philosopher, wrote the Jesus was not simply a “mere icon, a wraithlike semblance of a man, fit for the role of sacrificial lamb or alienated social critic, perhaps, but little more.” Willard brings up an excellent point: in a world of Doctorates and PhDs, why follow a moron of the past? Willard continues that not only was Jesus not any of those things (…a mere icon, and the like), but he was the most intelligent person who ever lived.

Well that’s good, then. “Jesus is Lord” can mean very little to someone who can’t hesitate in saying “Jesus is smart”. He is not just nice: he is brilliant. And that sort of brilliance deserves unyielding support and commitment.