Worth considering

Railing against "anti-intellectualism" is a cottage industry these days. The secular media, so-called mainline denominations and academia love to denounce anyone who does not agree with their narrow-minded world view as "anti-intellectual".

Here is an excellent reminder of the real history of the 20th century and the murderous effect that those who fancied themselves our intellectual and moral betters had during that time. The key quote:

Part of the problem is that the American distrust of intellectualism is itself not the irrational thing that those sympathetic to intellectuals would like to think. Intellectuals killed by the millions in the 20th century, and it actually takes the sophisticated training of "education" to work yourself up into a state where you refuse to count that in the books. Intellectuals routinely declared things that aren't true; catastrophically wrong predictions about the economy, catastrophically wrong pronouncements about foreign policy, and just generally numerous times where they've been wrong. Again, it takes a lot of training to ignore this fact.

Read the whole thing. The author blames scientists for this attitude, and it is true that many are guilty of using their positions to advance loopy policies and ideas. However, I argue that the secular and leftist denominations share an equal amount of blame. The secular media and mainline churches tend to side with the most radical and intolerant extremists in academia if they advocate the totalitarian government policies these groups favor. Those who speak out against totalitarianism are demonized and dehumanized as "racists", "homophobes", etc.

Lord Jesus, come quickly! We have acted stupidly and have deliberately handed over control of our lives to those who hate us. It's no wonder more people were deliberately slaughtered in the 20th century than in any previous century.

(h/t: Instapundit)