He ain't too sharp but he gets things done,A liberal co-worker mentioned today how I must like Sen. Brownback and I said I agree with his views on social issues but I think that political devices are largely ineffective and the only way forward is to change hearts and minds. He said I should just worry about hearts; the life issues are anti-rational. He implied you either have to be religious or stupid to be a pro-lifer.
Drinks his beer like it's oxygen. - John Prine song
I disagree, but it's not a bad idea to go after hearts anyway. Minds will follow. The pro-life movement is necessarily subservient to the saving souls movement anyway since souls are more important than bodies, and it seems hearts have more to do with souls than minds, St. Thomas Aquinas notwithstanding. Not because Christianity is anti-rational, but because humans often are, including those who pride themselves on their rationality.
I don't see how being perceived as being unintelligent or even intolerant is necessarily an impediment to spreading the Faith. Wasn't St. Paul laughed at when he spoke to the followers of the Greek philosophers? Weren't the early Christians perceived as being intolerant for not bowing to the pantheism of Rome? Didn't Paul say that preaching Christ crucified would be perceived as folly? Certainly the Apostles themselves, with the exception of St.Paul, were of average to less-than-average intelligence. So I'm skeptical the intellectual front will bear much fruit. To quote Johnny Cash's song One: "Love is a temple / Love the higher law / Love is a temple / Love the higher law". Doesn't one Mother Teresa trump ten [fill in your favorite Christian intellectual]s?
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