“Honesty demands that we boldly pursue ideas tested by time, defended by reason, validated by experience, and confirmed by revelation. We will only find truth when we place our confidence in it and not in ourselves. We will only learn when we love truth enough to measure all ideas with a measuring rod outside of those things being measured and are willing to discard those ideas we find to be "intolerable," inferior, and useless.”

Discernment makes the defining difference.

As it is written:

"Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgement."

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." The Buddha. I'm no Buddhist but this quote is right on.

From the Greeks, in the 7th C, BCE, plus or minus, the idea of a completely objective, impartial standard by which one can compare, hence judge, the nature and value of a world external to our emotional, subjective feelings has been the core of Western Civilization and its "science". That includes the rationalization of its primary God. The 20th C, CE, largely changed that concept; but not the desire for its attainment. We call that desire: truth. In between these rationalized truths there is doubt. It is in the state of doubt the objective standard is framed. Truth depends upon doubt for its realization; but not doubt based in cynicism. Whether doubt can ever be made an algorithm is questionable; but it does partake of method, subject to adjustment by comparative analogy. Analogy ? If this smacks of Descartes by way of Plato (cum Socrates) it should.

A very accurate observation ! ! !  John Shuttleworth — said well. The occupying statist theocracy now infesting this land by nature's law can not make honest demands, does NOT pursue ideas tested by time, does NOT defend reason - all such validated by experience, and confirmed by revelation.

Speaking of honesty, the honest appraisal of the conventional arrangement is: it's just a bunch of criminals who have no science or artistry in any real sense, and make up baseless infractions as they go along. Drug dealing and sex trafficking everywhere, and it gets practically no attention, unless it's a foreigner as in the case of Manuel Noriega who was "small fry" compared to his accusers.