Opus 2025-423: Article of Faith

I don’t know if you remember your junior high school English well enough to know the difference, but there is a major difference between the definite article and the indefinite article.  A definite article is the word “the”.  When you say “the” house you are specifically indicating one location.  When you say “a” house, you are talking about a genre of construction.

What brings this up was a sound bite.  I was walking through a room that had a bunch of Talking Heads discussing the speech by Erika Kirk.  Someone mentioned the obvious influence of a higher power in her demeanor and in the things she said.  I didn’t stay to follow it.  I don’t really like Talking Heads .  I listened to her speak because I wanted to hear what she said.  I don’t listen to the Talking Heads because I wanted to hear what she said, not how they interpreted it.  It is much better for my blood pressure.

And this phrase that I heard “a higher power” is a good example of the kind of nonsense that we hear from Talking Heads, who are awash in their mediocrity, political correctness, and editors.  It was not “a” higher power that was recognized and moving.  It was “the” higher power.  We’re not talking about the many spirits that the pagan world looked at as causing trees and animals to do what they do.  What Erika was talking about and responding to was the one and only God of the universe.  He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and you can just keep on down the list of attributes.  That is whom she was referring to, not some vague force that moves above the clouds.

She would use the definite article not the indefinite one.  Know the difference.

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