Sir Roger Scruton: How to Preserve Freedom in the West

Real news or fake news? Truth or lies?

How do we know the difference?

Sometimes all we have to do is look to God’s Word, the Bible. Such as in today’s debates over human sexuality, abortion, the historical Adam, the resurrection of Jesus, etc. Other times, more investigation and application of God’s Word is required. In either case, though, God’s Word is our source of all Truth.

Rev. Ben Johnson recently wrote about Roger Scruton’s pursuit of truth in the face of opposition from academia and the left. Oops! There I go being redundant again. Where was I? Oh yes, Rev. Johnson’s article, starting with a quote from Scruton:

“I’ve enjoyed the increasing certainty that there is a real distinction between true and fake knowledge, between truth and ideology, between the affirmation of an inheritance and resentment at one’s inability to receive it,” he said. “The culture which has been entrusted to the universities to pass on is no longer passed on, because those charged with doing so no longer believe in it.”

The trends holding academia in thrall lack not merely the content but the methodology of prior scholarship. “The new curriculum is a curriculum of foregone conclusions,” he said.

More bluntly, he said, new subjects amounted to “nonsense.”

“Nonsense is extremely useful, as I’m sure you’ve all realized, if you want to affect a major change in the culture,” he said. “If you’re speaking nonsense, nobody can correct you.”

Read the rest of Sir Roger Scruton: How to Preserve Freedom in the West.