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Very powerful advice Kirby. Many times in the Bible God's folks not only new their position in the Lord but the enemies position as well. To me the greatest example of this is found in Matthew 4:1-10 when our Lord Jesus knew the position of the enemy and His position in the Father.

Love in Jesus,
Steve

April 17, 2012

Blindsided
by Kerby Anderson

Before the oral arguments at the Supreme Court concerning the health care law,
most people in the media and in President Obama’s administration were confident that
the law would be upheld. It is fair to say that many were surprised at the skepticism
of some of the justices and unprepared for many of the arguments of their political
opponents.

Ran Simberg (PJMedia.com) wrote, “Having seen the transcripts of Tuesday’s
hearing before the Supreme Court of the United States, I can only conclude that such a
concept—testing their arguments against those of their political opponents—not only
never occurred to the solicitor general or his defenders in the media, but that the very
notion that their arguments had any flaws never crossed their minds.”

Peter Suderman (Reason.com) asked, “What can explain liberals’ widespread
failure to anticipate the Court’s wariness of the mandate? Research conducted by the
University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt suggests one possible answer:
Liberals just aren’t as good as conservatives and libertarians at understanding how their
opponents think.”

James Taranto has even put forward what he calls the Taranto Principle. “The
liberal media work against the interests of liberal politicians by misleading them into
thinking that ‘everybody’ (or ‘all thinking people’) sees the world the way they do.”

Often liberal pundits and politicians have trouble understanding the views of
conservatives. And secular people often do not understand religious people. And usually
it puts them at the disadvantage.

I saw this at work in many of the debates that I have attended or moderated. In
the early days of the debates on creation and evolution, I would often begin to feel sorry
for the evolutionists who were outmatched by creation scientists who knew not only
their own scientific arguments but also their opponent’s. Debates between atheists and
Christian philosophers were often a mismatch for the same reason.

Whether a debate on campus or arguments before the Supreme Court, we can
see the danger of overconfidence and the failure to appreciate the arguments of your
opponent. I’m Kerby Anderson, and that’s my point of view.

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