“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9 NIV
We are usually more enlightened when we are freed from an illusion than when we gain some new item of knowledge. Facts are a “dime a dozen,” as it were. Pick up any newspaper, turn on the news or open Wikipedia for some new facts about the world.
But when we are stripped of some longstanding illusion,…