That's a good article. I have no idea who the writer is but in this moment he is thinking like a philosopher.
But to push the point means you just don’t “get” it (you haven’t opened your heart to Jesus, perhaps?).
This is exactly what happens.
"Some thing you just know"
"If I have to explain it, you will never get it"
"Good people know this without having to be told"
I would add Wylted's appeal to "transcendental truth" to this.
The people saying these things aren't trying to trick you, but their thought process exits the conscious and rational and enters the subconscious and emotional. The transition is natural for them but they can't explain what they don't know. It is for the other mind just a dark tunnel their mind has disappeared into.
Those who can dig a bit deeper into the subconscious and explicitly state some more of those connections are the preachers and wisemen, an excellent example would be Jordon Peterson's exploration of various religious texts especially the bible.
The problem is people's subconscious are not reliable. They confuse what is with what they want to be true. They confuse lessons learned as a toddler with immovable truths. They make mistakes and then people who let their subconscious dictate their philosophy disagree with each other and have no way to resolve the difference.
It is the common delusion that everyone is disappearing down the same dark tunnel that creates religious ritual and attitudes.
When it is all conscious, when it isn't something "you just know" but can explain then the logic can be checked. Religions don't form on bodies of purely rational thought because there is no desperate need for communal validation of the mystical experience of drawing from the subconscious. Many people value this sense of magic like a drug and by comparison pure reason is flat, uninteresting, unprofound. To them, a man who needs only an argument to be convicted is isolated, arrogant, shallow.
Sadly I think this author is burning his time at a left-wing publication quickly and this does not represent the left-tribe at all. The point is that if praising people at a riot is guilt by association despite clarification there are quite a few guilty parties among the famous and elite.
