Now TV Guide does not count. Hosea says people are destroyed when there's no knowledge. Now the irony in our American situation, and it must be unique in human history, is that while our academic standards our falling, our self-esteem is rising. We may not be very bright, but we sure feel good about ourselves. But it's not funny.
People perish for lack of knowledge.
The tragedy is in America we have made a virtue out of ignorance. In fact, we love to look down our cultural nose at anyone who pretends to be intellectual, to think, to use logic or reason. We've made it very fashionable and 'in vogue' to call ourselves skeptics or cynics, or perhaps our favorite word, agnostics, as a culture. I love to remind you sometimes of the meaning of words. It comes from Greek.