When a Lie is the Truth
and the Truth is a Lie
When a Lie is the Truth and the Truth is a Lie
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2 Thessalonians 2:8-11, KJV
We are living this prophecy right now.
What kind of a twisted, backwards, upside down society is this when someone can speak the truth and not only be branded a liar, but completely and utterly excoriated, pilloried, and essentially destroyed by the Left, and yet someone can blatantly tell an obvious, unadulterated, unequivocal lie and be hailed as a hero by the selfsame Left?
Try asking those who know first hand – Tim Tebow, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz – the list is endless. Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame is only the latest victim of this scourge. If you dare to stand up to the Left that is in command of this society, you can expect the same, if not worse, treatment. For it indeed is getting worse with each successive attack.
If these people had stood up for imaginary gay “rights,” radical views on the environment, the Hoax of All Time commonly called Global Warming/Climate Change/Extreme Weather, or any other value the Left takes great store in, instead of their Christianity, traditional American family values, the US Constitution, and so forth, they would be adulated and celebrated by the Leftist-controlled media that has a virtual monopoly on American culture at the moment. Instead, the Left attempts to destroy them by a ploy they have become masters at – political and character assassination.
Very recently, Phil Robertson, star and patriarch of the Duck Dynasty crew, and his family did an interview with Gentlemen’s Quarterly where he professed his deeply held Christian beliefs, including the correct and Biblically backed view that homosexuality is a sin, as well as humanly unnatural. The radicals in the gay “rights” movement and their equally rabid allies on the Left in the media, news, entertainment, and academia instantaneously went into combat mode and mobilized for war. Their mission: to target and destroy Phil and Duck Dynasty, and punish with extreme prejudice the A&E network for even having the audacity to host such a show with such a character. A&E, like most of the rest of the Western world, are so afraid of the consequences for defying the Left’s Political Correctness Police, as embodied by the news and entertainment industry, that they will bow down at the foot of the Left and do its bidding. Highlighting the hypocrisy so embedded in the Left’s psyche, if Phil had supported gay “rights” in his GQ interview and A&E suspended him for those beliefs, the Left would be so outraged in self-righteous indignation that there would be unending protests, boycotts, possibly even riots and blood in the streets. That last part may be an exaggeration, but just barely.
The Left’ intense hatred of everything on the Right, but most especially Christianity, and anyone who dares to stand up to the Left’s Stalinesque stranglehold on culture and popular thought and opinion, borders on madness—which stands to reason since some have put forth the proposal that Liberalism is nothing more than a manifestation of mental illness. Whenever someone with standing in public affairs does defy the edicts and dictates of the Left, Liberals immediately become berserkers, like automated, guided cruise missiles intent on bringing down and destroying that person, group, or institution. Phil is just the most recent casualty in the Left’s “war” on Christianity, in particular, and the Right in general.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2 Thessalonians 2:8-11, KJV
We are living this prophecy right now.
What kind of a twisted, backwards, upside down society is this when someone can speak the truth and not only be branded a liar, but completely and utterly excoriated, pilloried, and essentially destroyed by the Left, and yet someone can blatantly tell an obvious, unadulterated, unequivocal lie and be hailed as a hero by the selfsame Left?
Try asking those who know first hand – Tim Tebow, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz – the list is endless. Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame is only the latest victim of this scourge. If you dare to stand up to the Left that is in command of this society, you can expect the same, if not worse, treatment. For it indeed is getting worse with each successive attack.
If these people had stood up for imaginary gay “rights,” radical views on the environment, the Hoax of All Time commonly called Global Warming/Climate Change/Extreme Weather, or any other value the Left takes great store in, instead of their Christianity, traditional American family values, the US Constitution, and so forth, they would be adulated and celebrated by the Leftist-controlled media that has a virtual monopoly on American culture at the moment. Instead, the Left attempts to destroy them by a ploy they have become masters at – political and character assassination.
Very recently, Phil Robertson, star and patriarch of the Duck Dynasty crew, and his family did an interview with Gentlemen’s Quarterly where he professed his deeply held Christian beliefs, including the correct and Biblically backed view that homosexuality is a sin, as well as humanly unnatural. The radicals in the gay “rights” movement and their equally rabid allies on the Left in the media, news, entertainment, and academia instantaneously went into combat mode and mobilized for war. Their mission: to target and destroy Phil and Duck Dynasty, and punish with extreme prejudice the A&E network for even having the audacity to host such a show with such a character. A&E, like most of the rest of the Western world, are so afraid of the consequences for defying the Left’s Political Correctness Police, as embodied by the news and entertainment industry, that they will bow down at the foot of the Left and do its bidding. Highlighting the hypocrisy so embedded in the Left’s psyche, if Phil had supported gay “rights” in his GQ interview and A&E suspended him for those beliefs, the Left would be so outraged in self-righteous indignation that there would be unending protests, boycotts, possibly even riots and blood in the streets. That last part may be an exaggeration, but just barely.
The Left’ intense hatred of everything on the Right, but most especially Christianity, and anyone who dares to stand up to the Left’s Stalinesque stranglehold on culture and popular thought and opinion, borders on madness—which stands to reason since some have put forth the proposal that Liberalism is nothing more than a manifestation of mental illness. Whenever someone with standing in public affairs does defy the edicts and dictates of the Left, Liberals immediately become berserkers, like automated, guided cruise missiles intent on bringing down and destroying that person, group, or institution. Phil is just the most recent casualty in the Left’s “war” on Christianity, in particular, and the Right in general.
On the other hand, again illustrating their perfect, unbroken record of hypocrisy, a former NBA player recently came out and announced he was gay and had been so during his playing days. In this case, the Leftist-controlled media went into maximum overdrive, orgasmically celebrating this player’s proclamation with so much ridiculous fanfare, pomp, and hoopla that it was disgusting and overbearing. This went on for days, as this player, who we decided not to name here in order to not glorify his actions or status, was declared to be so much of a hero, it was almost as if he was deified by the Left as some sort of twisted, Leftist Second Coming. Apparently, in this case at least, the public was not nearly as interested or so consumed with this news that was literally earth-shattering to the Left, and the player quickly faded into deserved obscurity and was never heard from again.
This is in very obvious and sharp contrast to football hero Tim Tebow, whose accomplishments on the field are so well documented and publicized that to compare him to the nameless former NBA player above is to compare a T Rex to a Gecko. Tim’s one flaw, and to the Left it was viewed as a fatal flaw deserving of decapitation, was his proud and outspoken profession of his Christian beliefs. In the Left’s sick, twisted, backwards religion, that is a sin worthy of death and destruction. And so they worked hard into overtime in order to bring him down. Despite his prowess on the football field, he undeservedly became the butt of jokes on nighttime TV shows and other forms of news and entertainment, and was knocked and disparaged on sports shows and in sports columns across the nation. This for merely having the guts to stand up to the Left’s fascist control of the media and society, and defying their edicts to keep one’s religion to ones’ self, especially if it is a religion openly despised by the Left.
If Tim had been gay, like the nameless former NBA player above, or even a member of the Left’s favorite pet religion, a Muslim, the Leftist-controlled media would’ve treated him as if he was the greatest athlete and person who had ever lived. In fact, he would almost certainly still be playing somewhere in the NFL now just for that very reason. Instead, he is an outcast to be trampled underfoot by the Left and once defeated, forgotten.
In the same vein, if during his interview, Phil had expressed support for the gay lifestyle and imaginary gay “rights,” instead of mobilizing to destroy him, his show, and his family, the Left would’ve pounced upon the chance to make him a cause célèbre, a reformed hick and redneck who had seen the error of his ways and adopted the Left’s enlightened ideas. He would be hailed as the toast of the town, an instant hero celebrated by the Leftists and their media from coast to coast, instead of vilified, cast out, and suspended from his job. By the time you read this, he probably will have been fired and the show canceled. No matter how popular and profitable Duck Dynasty is, or was, to A&E, I have serious doubts they will have the strength or will to stand up to the combined might and power of the radical gay lobby and their Herculean allies and supporters on the Left that control nearly everything having to do with modern popular culture. Other shows and celebrities have been destroyed for far less than what Phil has done.
The Left preaches inclusion and tolerance of every belief out of one side of their mouths but out of the other they spew lies, hatred, and malice toward anyone who opposes their view of the universe and how things should be. They are all for free speech as long as it is them that is doing the talking, but all that free speech crap goes right out the window when someone disagrees with them.
This is just one of the infinite hypocrisies inherent in the mental illness that is Liberalism. In fact, it could be the rock upon which the entire panoply of the Left is built. It manifests itself in a myriad of ways. One of its most successful and insidious manifestations is the madness called “political correctness.” This philosophy recommends in the strongest of ways that you agree with what the Left declares to be true regardless of your own views, and if you refuse to support their dictations then you had better remain silent or face dire consequences. Those who do garner the strength to oppose the Left and its mandates on “political correctness” are viewed as outlaws, idiots, bigots, and worse. These are the kinder terms the Left uses to refer to those who indulge in “political incorrectness.” Woe to you if you are a high profile target, like those listed above. If so, then you are zeroed in upon and taken out with extreme prejudice. The Left will gather all of its forces and summarily try to destroy you, assassinate your character, and politically murder you.
This is in very obvious and sharp contrast to football hero Tim Tebow, whose accomplishments on the field are so well documented and publicized that to compare him to the nameless former NBA player above is to compare a T Rex to a Gecko. Tim’s one flaw, and to the Left it was viewed as a fatal flaw deserving of decapitation, was his proud and outspoken profession of his Christian beliefs. In the Left’s sick, twisted, backwards religion, that is a sin worthy of death and destruction. And so they worked hard into overtime in order to bring him down. Despite his prowess on the football field, he undeservedly became the butt of jokes on nighttime TV shows and other forms of news and entertainment, and was knocked and disparaged on sports shows and in sports columns across the nation. This for merely having the guts to stand up to the Left’s fascist control of the media and society, and defying their edicts to keep one’s religion to ones’ self, especially if it is a religion openly despised by the Left.
If Tim had been gay, like the nameless former NBA player above, or even a member of the Left’s favorite pet religion, a Muslim, the Leftist-controlled media would’ve treated him as if he was the greatest athlete and person who had ever lived. In fact, he would almost certainly still be playing somewhere in the NFL now just for that very reason. Instead, he is an outcast to be trampled underfoot by the Left and once defeated, forgotten.
In the same vein, if during his interview, Phil had expressed support for the gay lifestyle and imaginary gay “rights,” instead of mobilizing to destroy him, his show, and his family, the Left would’ve pounced upon the chance to make him a cause célèbre, a reformed hick and redneck who had seen the error of his ways and adopted the Left’s enlightened ideas. He would be hailed as the toast of the town, an instant hero celebrated by the Leftists and their media from coast to coast, instead of vilified, cast out, and suspended from his job. By the time you read this, he probably will have been fired and the show canceled. No matter how popular and profitable Duck Dynasty is, or was, to A&E, I have serious doubts they will have the strength or will to stand up to the combined might and power of the radical gay lobby and their Herculean allies and supporters on the Left that control nearly everything having to do with modern popular culture. Other shows and celebrities have been destroyed for far less than what Phil has done.
The Left preaches inclusion and tolerance of every belief out of one side of their mouths but out of the other they spew lies, hatred, and malice toward anyone who opposes their view of the universe and how things should be. They are all for free speech as long as it is them that is doing the talking, but all that free speech crap goes right out the window when someone disagrees with them.
This is just one of the infinite hypocrisies inherent in the mental illness that is Liberalism. In fact, it could be the rock upon which the entire panoply of the Left is built. It manifests itself in a myriad of ways. One of its most successful and insidious manifestations is the madness called “political correctness.” This philosophy recommends in the strongest of ways that you agree with what the Left declares to be true regardless of your own views, and if you refuse to support their dictations then you had better remain silent or face dire consequences. Those who do garner the strength to oppose the Left and its mandates on “political correctness” are viewed as outlaws, idiots, bigots, and worse. These are the kinder terms the Left uses to refer to those who indulge in “political incorrectness.” Woe to you if you are a high profile target, like those listed above. If so, then you are zeroed in upon and taken out with extreme prejudice. The Left will gather all of its forces and summarily try to destroy you, assassinate your character, and politically murder you.
My first recollection of this tactic manifested itself in the person of Jimmy the Greek, aka Jimmy Snyder, years ago when I was a school child. Jimmy had the audacity to state the obvious, and scientifically proven, truth that black athletes excelled at sports because they were the descendents of slaves which were bred for such athletic traits as speed, strength, and stamina. You’d think the Left would’ve adored Jimmy because his statement seemed to prove a theory of one of the Left’s favorite icons, Charles Darwin – Survival of the Fittest. Yet the Left, which even back then had near total control of the media, though it wasn’t yet so overt or obvious, went into a hissy fit. Jimmy was called every word that had any connotation to racist and bigot that the Left could think up. Despite the fact that several African-Americans wholeheartedly and completely agreed with him and supported his contention, he was fired from his job by the Liberal Political Correctness Overlords at CBS.
At that moment, though I was still in junior high, I realized that you could be severely punished just for speaking the truth, especially if it was a truth that people, mostly those on the Left, did not want to hear, or did not want publicized.
Since then it has only gotten worse. Much, much worse.
Now the sick madness that grew into and became “political correctness” has insinuated itself into the very fabric of this society, where the Left dominates news, entertainment, and academia. It has gotten everyone so afraid of the consequences for not toeing the line, that those who know and see the truth are so cowed that they dare not speak it. That command is only reinforced when those who do so are publicly and severely excoriated by the Left that controls the media. In fact, it smacks of Stalinism.
At the same time, highlighting again the immense hypocrisy that is the basis of everything on the Left, those who constantly tell the most obvious and blatant lies are considered the heroes and leaders of the Left. One needs only look at what currently sits in the White House to see that perfectly illustrated, along with his very own Axis of Evil, Dirty Harry Reid and Nasty Pelosi. Barrack Hussein Obama is the Greatest Liar in the Entire History of the Known and Unknown Universe. And I do not bestow that title lightly, considering all of the massive and prolific liars the Left has produced over the years. Just as hypocrisy is at the very basis of Liberalism and the Left, lies are at the very basis of Barrack Hussein Obama. If you take away all of Obama’s lies, all you are left with is an empty suit. And even the suit would still be lying.
Yet the boot-licking, sycophant, lapdog media, controlled by the Leftists allied with Obama’s intentions and agenda, protect him better than the Secret Service. The media is so deeply in bed with Obama, the Democrats, and the rest of the Left, they should be called the Whore Media instead of the Mainstream Media. When Obama lies, which is to say, every time he opens his mouth, his slave media either ignore it, cover it up, or lie again for him.
But, it is not just Obama that the Whore Media protects. It is anyone on the Left that is aligned with their agenda or supports their causes. Those favored minions are given carte blanche to say or do anything they want to promote the Left’s agenda, including things that, if someone on the right were to have said or been found doing, the very same Whore Media would rake them through the coals and publicly crucify them, which brings us full circle back to the hypocrisy that is the very basis of everything on the Left.
Probably the best example of this, among an infinite number to choose from, is the radical gay “rights” movement under the full support of the Left’s immense power and weight in the media and society. Gays and their cheerleaders on the Left jump up and down and scream the loudest in their demand for tolerance of their so-called “lifestyle.” At the same time, they are undeniably (and by far) the least tolerant of anyone who disagrees with them or opposes their “lifestyle.”
These people on the Left have the arrogant and megalomaniacal belief that they can say and do anything they want and you had better shut up and listen and take it, do whatever they dictate. But you better keep your darn mouth shut and don’t you dare say nor do anything they disagree with or disallow. By any other name, this would be called social tyranny or social fascism. Just one step away from George Orwell’s Thought Police. In fact, this has already been carried out in other countries. Just a few that come quickly to mind – the USSR, Nazi Germany, Communist China, Cuba – the list is almost as endless as the hypocrisies practiced by the Left. Does that suggest to you just how close we are to the abyss?
To be honest, I never thought I’d live to see the day when the truth is considered a lie and a lie is considered the truth, at least in my country and in my culture. I also never thought I’d live to see the day that an obvious and unabashed Marxist would be elected President of the United States or that the people of the US would be so blind, ignorant, or deluded as to elect one, but here we find ourselves.
Unless this country wakes up from its dangerous and suicidal slumber and heeds the warning in the Bible about what happens when a society believes a lie is the truth and the truth is a lie, American Culture is doomed, and along with it, Western Culture itself, since the US is the last bastion that those in Europe lean upon for support, having for the most part abandoned it themselves years ago. All it would take now is one small push to send the entire thing right over the edge of the cliff and down into the abyss to oblivion.
God help us all.
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
John 8:32, NIV
Jeff Vanderslice
At that moment, though I was still in junior high, I realized that you could be severely punished just for speaking the truth, especially if it was a truth that people, mostly those on the Left, did not want to hear, or did not want publicized.
Since then it has only gotten worse. Much, much worse.
Now the sick madness that grew into and became “political correctness” has insinuated itself into the very fabric of this society, where the Left dominates news, entertainment, and academia. It has gotten everyone so afraid of the consequences for not toeing the line, that those who know and see the truth are so cowed that they dare not speak it. That command is only reinforced when those who do so are publicly and severely excoriated by the Left that controls the media. In fact, it smacks of Stalinism.
At the same time, highlighting again the immense hypocrisy that is the basis of everything on the Left, those who constantly tell the most obvious and blatant lies are considered the heroes and leaders of the Left. One needs only look at what currently sits in the White House to see that perfectly illustrated, along with his very own Axis of Evil, Dirty Harry Reid and Nasty Pelosi. Barrack Hussein Obama is the Greatest Liar in the Entire History of the Known and Unknown Universe. And I do not bestow that title lightly, considering all of the massive and prolific liars the Left has produced over the years. Just as hypocrisy is at the very basis of Liberalism and the Left, lies are at the very basis of Barrack Hussein Obama. If you take away all of Obama’s lies, all you are left with is an empty suit. And even the suit would still be lying.
Yet the boot-licking, sycophant, lapdog media, controlled by the Leftists allied with Obama’s intentions and agenda, protect him better than the Secret Service. The media is so deeply in bed with Obama, the Democrats, and the rest of the Left, they should be called the Whore Media instead of the Mainstream Media. When Obama lies, which is to say, every time he opens his mouth, his slave media either ignore it, cover it up, or lie again for him.
But, it is not just Obama that the Whore Media protects. It is anyone on the Left that is aligned with their agenda or supports their causes. Those favored minions are given carte blanche to say or do anything they want to promote the Left’s agenda, including things that, if someone on the right were to have said or been found doing, the very same Whore Media would rake them through the coals and publicly crucify them, which brings us full circle back to the hypocrisy that is the very basis of everything on the Left.
Probably the best example of this, among an infinite number to choose from, is the radical gay “rights” movement under the full support of the Left’s immense power and weight in the media and society. Gays and their cheerleaders on the Left jump up and down and scream the loudest in their demand for tolerance of their so-called “lifestyle.” At the same time, they are undeniably (and by far) the least tolerant of anyone who disagrees with them or opposes their “lifestyle.”
These people on the Left have the arrogant and megalomaniacal belief that they can say and do anything they want and you had better shut up and listen and take it, do whatever they dictate. But you better keep your darn mouth shut and don’t you dare say nor do anything they disagree with or disallow. By any other name, this would be called social tyranny or social fascism. Just one step away from George Orwell’s Thought Police. In fact, this has already been carried out in other countries. Just a few that come quickly to mind – the USSR, Nazi Germany, Communist China, Cuba – the list is almost as endless as the hypocrisies practiced by the Left. Does that suggest to you just how close we are to the abyss?
To be honest, I never thought I’d live to see the day when the truth is considered a lie and a lie is considered the truth, at least in my country and in my culture. I also never thought I’d live to see the day that an obvious and unabashed Marxist would be elected President of the United States or that the people of the US would be so blind, ignorant, or deluded as to elect one, but here we find ourselves.
Unless this country wakes up from its dangerous and suicidal slumber and heeds the warning in the Bible about what happens when a society believes a lie is the truth and the truth is a lie, American Culture is doomed, and along with it, Western Culture itself, since the US is the last bastion that those in Europe lean upon for support, having for the most part abandoned it themselves years ago. All it would take now is one small push to send the entire thing right over the edge of the cliff and down into the abyss to oblivion.
God help us all.
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
John 8:32, NIV
Jeff Vanderslice
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