SHE LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG

We employ an odd idiomatic expression without asking, "Where did that come from?" Such an expression is the odd saying, "Letting the cat out of the bag." Those who research such things tell us why we say, “Let the cat out of the bag” dates back to the Middle Ages. As the story goes, shady livestock vendors in medieval marketplaces tried to swindle their customers. 

When someone would purchase a pig, the vendor would sneak a cat into the bag instead, cheating the buyer out of the higher price for a pig. It wasn’t until the buyer arrived home and, literally, let the cat out of the bag that he'd realize he had been scammed, hence the phrase’s association with revealing a secret." (From "The Reader's Digest," Feb. 9, 2022)

A university professor held the bag and then let the kitty out of it and deliberately so.  (She either was or is a professor, I don't know the status of her employment.) Anyway, she delivered the following report which shows the state of American "education."

Here's what she said, and I'm paraphrasing: "Let's say you're doing research with due diligence. You are examining the data as you should; you're piling up the evidence that leads you to the correct, inescapable and absolute conclusion. The data and research have taken you there. 

But the problem is that you can't publish, teach, or publicize the truth you've proven. You must keep it quiet. Why? Because, if the conclusion hurts a specific group of people, that cat must stay in the bag. 

Let's say your research proves that a civilization based on the Judaeo-Christian ethic (i. e. the Bible) produces more freedom for women, is a more productive, and healthier country than a society based on the Koran, then you MUST sequester that kitty in the halls and journals of academia (i. e. the truth must be hidden). 

The only exception to this cat's staying in the bag is that any "research" that hurts a group of Christians or Jews must get out of the bag. Let's say that your statistics show that Christians were using bullhorns to chant slogans and then to block members of the Young Democrats from going to class in 96.7% of American universities, that cat would be out of the bag and mewing all over the U. S.  (The bullhorns, the chants, the use of force to harass Jewish students is what's happening in our universities, not by Christians but by those of the demonized antisemitic persuasion. In one case, anti-Jewish chanting and harassment lasted for 10 hours on one college campus.)

What this means is the collapse of a civilization because truth is dead.Roger Author Kimball writes, "Our educational institutions. . . have sacrificed their legitimacy on the altar of a corrupt and mendacious ideology... . Civilization, if it is to survive, must acknowledge the radical nature of that challenge and respond in kind."

You and I know the gospel is true; you and I know there is only one way to God and that is through faith alone in Christ alone. The "response in kind" for the follower of Jesus Christ is to let the cat out of the bag no matter what group is "hurt." You and I have the bag, let's open it up.