[Elsie]

As Carl Sagan wrote in 1995, in The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie, in order that judgment will come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.…

[Obadiah]

Thank you for the reminder. Indeed, and without a doubt, this is what is presently occurring. Let us lift up our heads for the day draws very close.