Not Intellectually Honest

The Hypocrisy of it All

Recently, a conservative podcaster admitted to supporting the widespread genital mutilation of boys, until her husband set her straight when she was pregnant with their son. Then, she proceeded to give a free pass to two of the three desert religions that cut baby boys in what she called a “religious rite”. This is coming from a personality that works for a conservative media company that’s been highly critical of the “transing the kids” agenda, which includes “gender affirming” surgeries for minor children.

Intellectually Honest Truth: Genital mutilation is genital mutilation.

Even if the evil entity posing as the creator of the heavens and the earth, tells his chosen people to cut off their son’s foreskins in a blood covenant with the god of the Old Testament, it’s still genital mutilation. If you criticize the genital mutilation of children, any rationalization or explanation, excuse or justification for the circumcision of infants, is intellectually dishonest.

To be intellectually honest you have to not allow your personal views or religious beliefs to interfere with the truth. You have to not purposefully omit relevant facts and information, especially when they contradict your own thoughts and ideas. You have to present the facts in an unbiased way, even when they don’t support your own position or conclusions. You have to choose not to intend to deceive or mislead by lying or using incorrect or incomplete data or faulty reasoning.

Just be consistent. Or, at the very least, be honest about your own hypocritical inconsistencies. Facts don’t care about your ritual blood sacrifices.

If your orthodox religious boss circumcises his son on the eighth day, don’t call it a religious practice. Call it what it is. The circumcision of an infant boy is genital mutilation and a violation of his bodily autonomy without his informed consent. It’s a crime against children.

Another recent example is the religious podcaster who said that the use of porn is “not awful”. His excuse? Men need variety. His conclusion? A porn addiction is better than physically cheating on your wife. In addition to being intellectually dishonest, this is absolutely despicable.

If you’re a secular person who is addicted to porn, watch it with your sex partner or don’t have a problem with sexually objectifying people so you can “get off”, I’m not going to debate you about the evils of porn. It’s not illegal, just immoral. This blog is about those who know better and instead of doing better, rationalize and make excuses for their immoral behavior.

This notion that if something is considered less immoral, less harmful or less evil than something else, it’s ok, is a fallacy. There may indeed be a lesser of two evils but that doesn’t make things that are evil, good.

Intellectually Honest Truth: Immoral is immoral. Harmful is harmful. Evil is evil.

Porn is not a victimless “sin”, to use a religious word. It’s harmful to the people making it. It’s harmful to the people consuming it. And it’s harmful to monogamous committed relationships.

If a man needs variety, he should stay single or get divorced. If a man loves his wife and values their marriage, he will choose to be faithful, not just physically, but in his heart and with his mind. That’s what marriage vows are all about.

Of course there are plenty of other examples of intellectual dishonesty. The “trans” people who don’t want to be classified as mentally ill but also want to claim they have gender dysphoria so their drugs and surgeries are covered by medical insurance. The alphabet community who insist they just want to be accepted and don’t have an agenda but also work to gain access to other people’s children so they can engage in indoctrinating, sexualizing, grooming and transing the kids. The Christians who know rape and murder is evil but defend it when their god commands mass genocide and demands his portion of the spoils of war. The list goes on.

When I left organized religion at 16, I called what the Christians I knew were doing, hypocrisy. I find that it’s the religious people who tend to be the most hypocritical. Their legalistic focus on degrees of evil, ranks sins in order from “an abomination” to “not awful”, instead making good choices in their lives.

Here’s an idea: As Jesus said, “Go and sin no more!”

Instead of joining a religion to get your “get out of hell free” card, maybe consider being a good human. Love and be faithful to your husband or wife. Honor your children’s bodily autonomy. Do the right thing, not because you don’t want to get in trouble (or be sentenced to eternal damnation), but because it’s the right thing to do. And when you do something wrong, forgive yourself and make it right.

Don’t give yourself an out to watch porn. Or expect someone else to die for your sins. Or use euphemisms to hide the satanic ritual abuse of children. Abortion is murder and circumcision is genital mutilation. Let’s stop pretending religious people are any better than secular or satanic people who do the same things, just with different names or for different reasons.

Intellectually Honest Truth: Facts don’t care about your excuses.

So, whatever you do, stop being a hypocrite and not intellectually honest.

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Pearls of Wisdom is a personal blog of the wisdom writings of Dara Eden that fall outside the realms of feng shui, The 8 Elements and her other personal energy work. Established in 2014, the blog is an expression of her highest values: Sovereignty, Truth, Wisdom & Inner Peace. It’s devoted to increasing awareness, expanding consciousness, bringing knowledge, sharing innerstandings and offering wisdom to the sovereign souls inhabiting the Earth.

Dara Eden is a writer and wisdom keepHER. The name, Dara, means “pearl of wisdom”. Pearls are formed when a microscopic irritant, like a grain of sand, embeds itself within the soft tissue of a shelled mollusk. To protect itself, the oyster or clam covers the invading gritty particle with concentric layers of iridescent crystalline calcium to form treasures, pearls of great beauty and worth. Gifts of the sea, pearls are the oldest known gem and the only gem that does not need to be cut, shaped or polished. Pearls are associated with elegance and luxury and are a symbol of mystery and purity. Pearls represent priceless knowledge, the rare wisdom that begins as a tiny, random, common irritant.