Posted on 07/23/2024 7:09:53 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.
2 Thessalonians 2:
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.
8 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
9 that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.
11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,
12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.
And this passage...
Romans 1:
21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;
32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
Yes! Yes! The WORD of GOD as a written immutable STANDARD is and always has been the antidote to a lying culture. In Scripture is THE WAY back to THE TRUTH and LIFE*, no matter how far the world around us strays into insanity.
*John 14:6
VERY well said.
I would add that in America, founded as it is on Judeo-Christian principles, our CONSTITUTION serves a similar foundational purpose for our governance.
Thanks and FRegards!
Yes, there is evil among us. But let not your heart be troubled. In 2016, Billary won 400 Counties in the United States and President Trump won 2,700 Counties. The democRATS and DemoKKKrats have to lie, cheat, and steal to obtain and maintain power.
G-d never gives you more than you can bear.
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What's Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]
The purpose of lying is multifaceted but a LARGE part of it is to demoralize people.
Orange Hair and the Clown both smirked all-day-every-day feeding lie after lie to the WH Press Corps.
Politicians get this weird smirk and $#!T eating grin on their faces while lying. Like the pathologic ris sardonicus of tetanus patients, some politicians have this smirk on their mugs perpetually. It is a real red flag for me when anyone sports one.
The rats know that they are sending code to their followers "We overpower them on this, HA!" and they are downright joyful in their lies.
Notice the war on comedians and humor you see nowadays and always in communist countries.
Humor is a way of both pointing out truth in a sort of parable form that sticks with the listener. AND it is, when people are laughing and silly, a way of overclocking the brain to get them to think around obstacles and figure problems out quickly in real time.
It is very powerful medicine against lies.
Soviet historians could unerringly predict the ineluctable future, but could never foretell the ever changing past.
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
Thx.
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