Is there a link between Neuro Disorders and this US Craze of Deconstruction?

A contributor to a podcast got everyone to sit up and take note when this comment of his was shared on air.

He observed that in the last ten years there has been an explosion of deconstruction while at the same time; there has been a blow-up of another kind. We see an explosion in cases of ADD, Autism and anxiety disorders.

He believes what we call neuro diversity is to blame for this state of affairs. He and his peers at Uni often discuss it he claims.

Why stop there we may ask. What about personality disorders; they have exploded too. Narcissists are everywhere. It is the same for others of the cluster B type.

The hosts of the show said they did not know if there has been any research done on the topic and threw the question open to their audience. Let us know if you know anything about it.

While this may well be, or turn out to be a sizable factor, I have some thoughts of my own.

You would be interested I am sure to know how the above, and then some more, connect with people on a cognitive and perceptual level. I know I would.

First there is the dearth of proper theology. With the result there is a dire lack of knowledge about it. Both of them have been in short supply for years now.

Listening to podcasts every now and then my gut feel on many of them is you talk too much. Their lips flap in the wind constantly; non- stop. If only they would give their brains a chance!

To borrow a phrase; theology is for the birds as far as deconstructs go.

So where do they pick up their alternate theology from: possibly social platforms? You will hear lots of guff there. Deconstructs will insist they ex-evangelical but you have to wonder. How come they never from a mainline Church? Isn’t that odd. In a country with more Churches, all kinds of Churches, per square mile it does not gel. They appear to read from a script then just fill in the details. How much theology did they take in anyway? How much did those who taught them know?

Many just jump on the bandwagon for the ride.

Is the Zeitgeist to blame? Well it would help to explain a lot.

That we seeing a social contagion play out right in front of us is likely.

Many of those who promote deconstruction seem to have landed on the post -Christian block some time ago. Why do they continue to do what they do? To pack them in and keep their books on the roll is my guess. This charge they will avidly deny.

Those on this ‘journey ’insist they have not abandoned the faith they have just created a better one. This allows them to keep the bits they like while dumping the bits they don’t.

So they are cafeteria religious believers. What they not are believers of the New Testament. They of the Jewish faith they just don’t know it. The clue is in their words; the teachings of Jesus. Oh how they love themselves some of that. It makes them all seem so virtuous somehow. This is done without respect for context. The gist of it is they want to unburden themselves from what they see as the burden of theology.

Yet the scriptures say people are destroyed through lack of knowledge? The reason for this is that they reject knowledge. It is right there. Okay I can hear the screams of indignation from here but so what! They’ll say it is not what you believe but what you do. Sure pal. Now zip it.

Time to do some grappling!

Jesus mission was threefold; first to teach and expound on the Jewish faith and to convince Jews he was the long-awaited Messiah. Finally his mission was to bring in the New Covenant.

Liberals like to quote from the passage that starts off with- the spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me to bring the good news, the one Jesus read out in the Synagogue. To many of them this is a social justice message; meantime it is from Isaiah, the book of prophecies that point to the Messiah. To the believing Jew of the day this would have been the good news.

The odd take that Jesus was a rebel, a honcho hippy, a revolutionary or a liberal just does not tie up, sorry!

He did not break all the rules like they so fond of saying. What? You beg to differ? Well the Pharisees said he did too. Only they left out that it was their rules he broke, the ones they made up on the fly. It also means you on the same side. Talk about a gotcha moment.

See it helps to get your sides right.

The Pharisees were not the orthodox of the day that they like to think they were. They were the usurpers. They had hijacked Judaism for their own ends; the prophets would not have even recognized the religion. Jesus was a Torah Man.

This Pharisees were not happy with its straightforward instructions so they had to think up 101 rules of their own. There was the fight between Jesus and them re the Sabbath war.

And the takeaway lesson for the ages; do not add to or take away from what is written. This was said by Jesus himself.

If you fancy yourself an observant person you will notice Jesus does not read the whole passage from the Book of Isaiah. Rather he ends with today the prophecy has been fulfilled. Why then did he leave the remainder out? The part he read out was for the first Advent and the other was only for the Second Advent?

Then there is the Sermon on the Mount. Liberals take this as a socio political blueprint when no one really knows what it means. All we know it is very different to the world’s values and here is the clue. The Kingdom of God is like….

From prophecy we learn that The Gospel of the Kingdom of God will be preached to all nations. Then the end will come.

So that knowledge is still to come.

I conclude with a story that is right out of the Twilight Zone. This is a true story bro which makes it even grimmer and leads us to ask, is it time? If not right now it can’t be far off.

A Church, and I use the word very lightly, has a new worship ‘song.’ They made it up themselves. And the title, oh you will never guess. This one is a real dozy. It is one of a kind.

Now for the name; it is titled ‘We have no Idea of What We Doing’. I’d say. Yes you read it right.

I don’t want to have to state the obvious but if this is how they think why do they even bother to show up. Don’t give me that for the community spiel. You know what I mean.

Here is a sample of what is in the song.

God bless The Christian

God bless the atheist

God bless the Muslim

God Bless the rest of us

We’ve got no idea of what we doing.

Let all our friends in

And all our enemies

All of our children

All of our families

We’ve got no idea of what we doing

We tried to find you through the centuries

Different religions in different countries

We’ve got no idea of what we doing.

This comes from the Well Church in Gilbert in Arizona.

Don’t know about the well part. Horribly confused is what they are.

Deceived maybe.

Or did those who wrote the words know exactly what look they were going for.

Either way they bewitched.