are labels helpful?

Yesterday, I wrote about what C.S. Lewis termed, “Bulverism.” ‘You must first show that a person is wrong before you explain why a person is wrong.’ This is why labels are so unhelpful. Conservative. Liberal. Right wing. Leftist. On and on. Then there is centrist. What is that? You don’t believe in anything?

Labels mean nothing when it comes to discourse and clear thinking. Either your ideas are supported in a principled reasonable way or they aren’t. The search for truth doesn’t wear a label. If the weight of evidence supports your viewpoint, it doesn’t matter what someone calls you or what you call yourself.

It seems we have to categorize everything. I argue we are so bombarded by stimuli that we try to skip some steps in thinking. This may be a defense mechanism in the overload of modern society or it may just be laziness. Careful thinking is simply that. Careful thinking. But don’t take my word for it. I am just an unorthodox orthodox follower of an unorthodox orthodox Master Teacher named, “Jesus.”