<quote from Real Faith & Reason, vol 2>
Using the discoveries of Sir Francis Bacon, let’s shed light on a few of the many ways thinkers lose touch with reality and how those ways work together to create extremely deceptive illusions. Sir Francis Bacon categorized all fallacies under four headings: idola tribus, idola theatri, idola fori, and idola specus. We know of only one way to avoid losing touch with reality, and this way is focusing on Jesus Christ, the Truth, the Reality.
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Idola Theatri Fallacy
Concepts enter the mind through various sources and seem like reality.
Movies, TV dramas, and cartoons are three methods of implanting concepts through storytelling, which automatically creates a trance state. This trance state bypasses our inner filters and changes our worldviews because it reduces our natural human resistance to change. Reality blends with make-believe in a trance. In this state, persuaders implant lies into our worldviews. With any story, even novels, we need to remember that the author is working to influence us and change our worldviews. The author wants to persuade us, and the point of this persuasion is called the theme of the story. Often, multiple themes work together. TV drama is the most powerful mind-molding method known because of the number of people that it reaches and the number of hours that people spend absorbing the ideas. TV dramas also use music as part of their ability to draw us in. Music comes right behind storytelling in its ability to influence, but on another level.
“Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?” ~ Romans 6:16 Berean Study Bible
Whenever we watch a show, we offer ourselves to the show in obedience. We sit willingly to watch the show.
Of course, a trance isn’t necessary to change a worldview, but rather, people build their worldviews from several sources. In children, these sources include the influence of parents, teachers, other children, video games, and animated cartoons. In adults, more sources become available. For instance, adults receive the impact of novels, non-fiction books, news media, or comedians. We can also allow classes, friends, museums, and many other powerful persuaders to brainwash us.
This confusion gets worse when several communication systems repeat the same propaganda message. These communication systems include textbooks, schools, universities, news broadcasts, social media, museums, parks, zoos, and entertainment.
Persuaders often state the concepts that they push in assumptive language.
It’s as if a single false prophet speaks with a single voice through all these sources, secretly inserting concepts into the worldviews of unsuspecting people. It’s a false-prophet-pseudo-education-pseudo-news-pseudo-analysis-pseudo-entertainment cabal.
Even now, teachers of evolutionism are trying to find ways to make their stories seem more like reality by working on new more convincing presentations. Yes, they’re using tax money taken from Christian taxpayers to develop methods to deceive those Christian taxpayer’s children.
With all of the many ways of programming us, if we yield ourselves to them and willingly allow them to brainwash us, we become slaves of those who indoctrinate us.
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