A Penny is all it's worth...

Seriously, even with inflation, a penny is overcharging these days for the average person's thoughts. It's basically a rip off for individual thoughts. i just had the same conversation with someone that i had with someone else in college. The difference was that both of them had completely opposite views, and both of them were not worth listening to. Why, you might ask? It's simple, they had very complex, Biblically grounded beliefs. Why is this a bad thing? Brian, aren't you in seminary? How could Biblically-based opinions or beliefs be so bad or dangerous? Ding ding ding... well, they were so incredible un-noteworthy because they had chosen these beliefs before they ever opened the Bible. Duhn duhn duhn... Wait a minute... (yes, i can hear the wheels turning) See, the danger in choosing what you believe God says about how you should live your life before you see what that might be, is that you mold, bend, twist, or ignore what you find there inside. And unless you are more than thousand years old, or you know a very trustworthy person who is (Barbara Walters doesn't count), that Bible would be your best source for what it is God has to say to us. Whether you are radical left wing, or liberation theologist, or evangelical, or a firm believer in the flying spaghetti monster, or you only believe the world is flat and supported on the back of a giant tortoise, you run the same risk of learning nothing as the stubborn atheist when you open that book. It does you no good to open or tell anyone else what you believe.
So i have come to the following conclusion: polarized views, extreme views, right wing, left wing, radical, fundamental, conservative, liberal, apathetic, whatever, it's all modern english for "i stopped thinking and started bullshitting, please don't ask my opinion, it's not worth your time or consideration because i have given it little of either."