The Eighty Percent

Pareto, man-made religion, and a Hebrew Savior none of the systems ever knew.

I often sit and ponder how do people nowadays actually think, myself included. Most days, the honest answer is: they don't. They inherit, they default, they follow the crowd. It's why I've latched onto the label "the counterintuitive thinker," the thing I've built around my name. Why? Because through many God-given experiences, I've learned that what the masses deem qualified is simply not the truth.

When I was young, I read about Pareto and his principle. That beautiful 80/20 rule. A small few actually dig into the source. The rest just inherit the system around it. And when it comes to things like Scripture, especially here in America, the masses still bow to systems built by men.

Yet if you read Scripture, you see it: Jesus was a member of none of them.

Then comes the mass default, that He came to destroy Judaism. And in believing it, we miss the nuanced, unmistakable message of Scripture: Judaism was never His target.

Man-made religion was.

So we build a wall around what we love, and call it justified. It's why people defend their faith so fiercely, and their denomination even more so. Great men have made their names standing on Reformed theology, arguing both sides of it. And there's Catholicism on the sidelines: "Hey, you're both wrong. We started this."

And all the while, I go back to reading about my Hebrew Savior. My Hebrew-speaking Savior and the veil he tore down.

What this all boils down to is simple: most people just don't think critically anymore.

"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness." -1 Corinthians 3:19