Accuracy Really Does Matter | Food for Thought | Critical Thinking Ministry

welcome welcome to critical thinking Ministry for this quick Food For Thought I am so glad you clicked on the video and I guarantee today your world will be rocked because when I ran across my research my world was rocked also but in a good way I want to start this video off with a true story about two attorney friends one day two friends passed the bar and they were now officially attorneys ready to practice law in the state of Georgia they decided to open a law firm together and had to decide on the name of the firm the one guy's last name was Lewis and the other guy's name was Smith so when they were designing their web page they asked one another what should we name the firm Lewis and Smith Law Firm or Smith and Lewis Law Firm well Lewis said it him Smith replied it didn't matter to either so the guy whose last name was Lewis gave the responsibility to Smith to design the page and get the business cards together two days later Lewis asked Smith did he complete designing the web page and get the business card and Smith stated yes he did LS asked Smith to see the business courts and the name of the law firm was officially Smith and Lou Firm so in the end it did matter whose name was first when I hear people say Jesus's race doesn't matter I said you are right but when it's time to present him to the world he always looks like the dominant culture H I guess it does matter I remember when the movie on the late great singer Nina Simone came out people were excited that Hollywood was finally recognizing this iconic singer but when the film finally came out there was great controversy on who played the part of nah Simone out of all of the great and accomplished actresses who could have played nah Simone Hollywood chose her wow wow oh no they didn't and this is the end result of what they presented to the world I guess being accurate doesn't matter in Hollywood either now to my evidence how many of you remember in Middle School what a thesaurus is if you remember click the thumbs up button right now Button a thesaurus to refresh your memory is a type of dictionary which lists words that have the same meaning which we call synonyms and it lists words that have the opposite meaning which we call antonyms one of the oldest thesauruses used today is the Roes thesaurus Dr Peter Ro he was a physician a medical physician created this tharis in 1852 and it has been updated recently and is still considered the standard for thesauruses even today one of the things I absolutely love about old books from the 1700s and the 1800s is their

honesty even if it's somewhat offensive you will see what I mean by this in a minute by the way your discretion is advised I would use some language that some people find offensive so let's check it out the first word I want to look up in Ro tharus is the word prostitute it says of the word prostitute a synonym is harlot we're familiar with that one Scarlet woman unfortunate woman Fallen woman street walker again we are familiar with that one woman of the town so if you would use one of these phrases at a certain point in history everybody would know who you were talking about make sense let's look up another one word let's look up the Thug it says a synonym for Thug is Criminal felon crook Public Enemy law breaker gangster again you can use any of these words for thugs and it would apply well one would ask the question why would a Ministry choose to use words that were somewhat shocking well I wanted to use words that didn't sugarcoat the situation like I told you earlier books from the 1700s and 1800s were not politically correct they called it like they saw it now I must warn you may want to hold on to your seat on the last word I'm giving your heads up on this I promise you it's going to rock your world let's see what Ro's tharis said the word negro meant it said a synonym for negro was darken okay shade black wash charcoal okay ebony it goes on to say more synonyms for the word negro are black and in Jim Crow times it says Negroes were called okay ebony the image of God uhoh stop the Press did you just read what Ro's respected faaris said if you described a negro as the image of God everybody knew who you were talking about have you fainted yet do you feel lightheaded everybody knows who we are but us again I love the books from the 1700s and the 1800s because they called it like they saw it I would have expected it to say or spear chucker but not the image of God I am about to end this food for thought but before I cloes do me a favor please straighten out your back yes now lift your head up because you are not a mistake mishap but you are fearfully and wonderfully made by God if you don't believe me your Pastor Will you then believe this tharus so until we meet again remember Faith plus critical thinking will always lead you to truth God bless