Posted on 07/30/2025 4:34:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The “big lie” is the name of a propaganda technique, originally coined by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf (1925), who wrote, “The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” Sixteen years later, Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, actively promoted the big lie as the key principle of the Nazi propaganda machine.
Sadly, lying has become so commonplace in our society that the truth often appears or is portrayed as a lie, and outright lies are given legitimacy by many of our political leaders, our courts, our institutions of higher education, and our religious institutions. In short, tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of people are living in a lie-filled and lie-believing state of mind.
There has been a dramatic decline in church and synagogue attendance. U.S. church membership was 73% when Gallup first measured it in 1937 and remained near 70% for the next six decades before beginning a steady decline around the turn of the 21st century. It has since been between 63% and 37%, with those not in attendance professing no particular religious preference. Thus, growing millions of people are now believing the lie that there is no God, or at least have taken the agnostic position.
This is a dismal rejection of the truth that the universe and our world in particular were created by a Supreme Being and that we owe Him worship, honor, and thanksgiving, for the moral law at the very least, and ultimately for the salvation of our souls.
The noticeable emptying out of many churches is evidence that belief in God is on the wane and that denial is a rapidly spreading lie. Imagine: There are growing millions who believe we evolved
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Amd that seems to be happening...many churches do not preach the gospel anymore...they seem only to be an entertainment venue.
(And that seems to be happening...many churches do not preach the Gospel anymore...they seem only to be an entertainment venue.)
I was just at one Sunday.
Standing in the foyer I heard WHOOMP WHOOMP WHOOMP after the initial Praise and Worship I heard while walking up.
I was texting some verses to a guy that I know and almost turned around and walked out.
But I thought well I’m already here and it’s a ways back to another church which was similar that I had visited for a few weeks.
Sure enough the sermon delivered by a guest had a very rapper / hip-hop feel with very, very little Scripture.
I don’t know if I’ll visit there again. I was definitely disappointed.
This writer, and many others, need to stop using that term, "assigned at birth". No one is assigned a sex at birth, by a doctor or a nurse, or anyone else for that matter. It is assigned at conception, and it can never be changed. That term is one of many that the leftists have created to muddy the waters, and no free thinking, intellectually honest person should ever use it.
(It is assigned at conception, and it can never be changed)
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