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The Power of Propaganda
Townhall.com ^ | August 16, 2015 | Michael Youssef

Posted on 08/16/2015 6:32:00 AM PDT by Kaslin

Recently I tweeted a statement that was attributed to Stalin and used by Joseph Goebbels (Hitler’s propaganda minister). Goebbels said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

Our Western media has not only proved that theory, repeatedly, but they have perfected it right before our eyes.

Take the LGBT lobby as an example. The LGBT community represents less than 2 percent of any Western population. Only thirty years ago, they claimed to only want “acceptance of our lifestyle.” Today, the persecution of those who disagree with them enjoys social acceptance.

That is a stunning turn of events.

America has always been a nation that supports the underdog and strives to give fair treatment to everyone. Throughout our history, America has been the most generous and accepting society in the world.

Why else would millions line up each year to come to our country? I was one of those people fifty years ago.

To be sure, America has never been, nor will ever be, a perfect country. But compare it to the rest of the world, and it’s easy to see why it is the most desired destination.

But during the last three decades, a small group of propagandists have used our country’s precious and unique moral values as a weapon in their favor. Once they succeeded in silencing those with different views, they turned their success toward persecution.

That success was accomplished through the aid of the media. Although the homosexual lifestyle is far outside the mainstream—biblically and morally—the media was able to help elevate the LGBT lobby to the role of accusers-in-chief of the mainstream. To solidify that position, they labeled anyone with deep religious convictions as “haters” and “extremists,” and the destruction of their livelihoods was given legitimacy.

Soon, everyone’s liberty and lives could be in danger.

It’s important for us to understand, however, that not all homosexuals agree with their lobbyists and propagandists.

As a Christian believer, I have always reached out to and befriended people who live the homosexual lifestyle. Even during the 1980s, when a gay-rights lobbying group within the Episcopal church (to which I once belonged) tried to silence the views of true Bible believers, I still reached out to homosexuals.

I did so without hiding my opposition to their chosen lifestyle. In fact, it deeply offended me when some of them tried to equate their chosen practice with the color of my skin and my African descent.

But that didn’t stop me. No one is a true disciple of Jesus if they hate anyone—even those who position themselves as enemies. That is not open for discussion, and my homosexual acquaintances know that.

Although true Christian believers will never compromise their convictions and acquiesce to this anti-biblical lifestyle, homosexuals need to know that a Christian is truly their best friend.

Don’t believe me? Then look at what Islamists do to homosexuals.

Their “acceptance” of homosexuality ranges from beheadings to throwing them off high-rise buildings.

Christians, on the other hand, have always been persecuted for the truth of the Gospel. And they find such treatment of homosexuals to be the epitome of evil, even though they vehemently disagree with the lifestyle choice.

It is time for those within the homosexual movement to reassess their fight against Christians and Evangelicals. And more importantly, it is time for them to seek to know the Savior.

By coming to the Savior with repentance and faith—just like the rest of us have done who have come to the Savior—He will have mercy on them and deliver them.

And I pray that His mercy will deliver them as a community from the hands of the Islamists.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: christians; homorights; homosexualagenda

1 posted on 08/16/2015 6:32:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Not only is their a need to get the good news of the Gospel of Jesus out once again, and to preach repentence, conversion, and faith, but know this, at least in this country their are Americans ARMED to the teeth that will be able to take on the Islamofacists.


2 posted on 08/16/2015 6:34:40 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

...deliver...from the hands of the islamists...

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’ “ (John 15: 18-25


3 posted on 08/16/2015 6:49:32 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Kaslin

Our Republic has been taken over by the Progressive Liberal Democrat/Rino Communist Uni-Party.

We The People has sat watched and allowed this to happen, we have the Constitutional Authority to DEPOSE a Tyrannical government yet we still sit and watch as our once Free Republic is destroyed daily, thinking this time we will turn the country around by political means, this same uni-party has spent decades corrupting our election process, just for a time such as this, maybe we will, maybe we won’t, if we do not win... WHAT THEN!

Ultimately when this mess is broken down to the lowest common denominator we the people can blame no one but ourselves.


4 posted on 08/16/2015 6:50:25 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: PoloSec
if we do not win... WHAT THEN!

I think it was Carvill that said it best,"This means WAAAAAR!"

5 posted on 08/16/2015 7:04:49 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Kaslin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I came across this quote on Former Dodger's profile:
Theodore Dalrymple, in a recent interview:
"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."
Thanks Kaslin.

6 posted on 08/16/2015 7:17:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Kaslin

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

Hillary’s campaign slogan!!!!

Just like all prison inmates claim they are innocent.


7 posted on 08/16/2015 7:21:48 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Kaslin

Myself, being a hater and extremist, I find no added value from this 2% of any country. In fact,I would inflict it upon our enemies if it were possible. I foresee nothing but strife in our future by giving these people a bully pulpit and special rights in society. We should adhere to biblical standards in this area lest we waken tomorrow and find smoking craters dotted across the country. no joking


8 posted on 08/16/2015 7:22:16 AM PDT by Movemout (Vision without action is merely a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare - Japanese proverb)
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To: Kaslin

Myself, being a hater and extremist, I find no added value from this 2% of any country. In fact,I would inflict it upon our enemies if it were possible. I foresee nothing but strife in our future by giving these people a bully pulpit and special rights in society. We should adhere to biblical standards in this area lest we waken tomorrow and find smoking craters dotted across the country. no joking


9 posted on 08/16/2015 7:23:34 AM PDT by Movemout (Vision without action is merely a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare - Japanese proverb)
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To: Movemout
I would have no problem peacefully coexisting with them, letting them live their lives they way they wish, as long as I was not required to spend a nanosecond contemplating the depraved and disordered things they do to express their "love."

They were not content with that.

10 posted on 08/16/2015 7:36:02 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Kaslin

God is not mocked.

11 posted on 08/16/2015 8:12:26 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Kaslin

The LGBT community represents less than 2 percent of any Western population. Only thirty years ago, they claimed to only want “acceptance of our lifestyle.” Today, the persecution of those who disagree with them enjoys social acceptance.


12 posted on 08/16/2015 8:21:04 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: SunkenCiv; Liz; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker
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."

?We're naming the problem... it helps to defang liberal elite totalitarians...

"If you feel it, say it"

13 posted on 08/16/2015 11:11:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (Research facilities aren't using a million aborted babies a year. Where's the rest ?)
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