A Consideration on the Sermons and Philosophy of John Jaspers

Although this piece is more suitable for the Flat Earth blog I own, I wanted to review some of the teachings of John Jaspers according to Against Ignorance. The reason is his sermonizing is interesting in terms of the growth of knowledge in the USA. However, certainly, he is significant because of his “flat Earth” sermon and the unique meaning Christianity in the USA gives to flat Earth as contrary to the meaning of “flat Earth” from other religions and from other parts of the world.

One problem with the philosophy of John Jaspers is our consideration of his work in it’s “original language.” Although his text is sermons, his work is only appreciated in its dialect and not in its reference to scripture. Because of the appreciation of the dialect his work is placed into a greater context of the meaning of a race but not the meaning of the greater field of biblical exegesis. Because of this contextualizing the meaning of his sermons outside of the meaning of the race he is assigned to is lost. Instead, his sermons speak from a person who has been ‘uplifted.’ I have used a chatGPT bot to translate one of his sermons from its original language to contemporary English to highlight the difference. The original can be found here, and the translation can be found here.

The goal of the AgainstIgnorance blog is to extend the method described herein. Representative of the extension of the light of reason from faith to science, the sermons of John Jaspers are crippled when they extend race theory which is expressly and finally discredited according to the method of this blog. The sermons of John Jaspers are significant to the enlightenment of the USA without reference to race or disposition. As I have noted in other posts on this blog AgainstIgnorance provides a method to solve any problem that confronts society. The method is in exactly extending the light of reason given to civilization as an enlightenment, first from religion, and next from science to the betterment of people and society.

It is significant that Rev. John Jaspers does enlighten the USA according to religion. He reaches a distinct and significant group of American citizens whose purpose as Christians helped push the USA into the industrial age and made reason and science, for them, a solution to the problems they face, and a solution for the goals they set.