April 15, 2015
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
Not so fast. For the third
time I’ve come across photos in the newspaper, or on a flyer, that have been
obviously photo-shopped. I’ve seen headshots of politicians that have been
distorted to make them appear clownish and dimwitted and landscapes that are
manipulated by activists to show environmental damage that comes from their imagination.
I understand people removing a zit and adjusting the shading in photo; however,
to doctor a photo for manipulation of the truth makes the photo a lie. “He who
has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or
swear by what is false. He will receive blessing from the LORD and
vindication from God his Savior” (Psalm 24:4-5 NIV).
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Gail;
-----”The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (II Thes 2”9-13) Deceit certainly is not something new. Nor has there never been times of great deceit. Many people in many places at many times have been greatly deceived. Probably everyone’s mind goes to Hitler’s Germany as a natural example. Take your pick of communist regimes for more examples, not just because we grew up in a relatively free, relatively capitalistic society and so think poorly of communists, but because the social order constructing communism is adverse to human nature and God’s principles. Therefore, it must found upon deceit about the physical as well as the spiritual sides of reality. These are just examples from our times. Many bits of ancient history from several different peoples around the Middle East allude to a great leader who deceived people into building his city and a tower reaching into the heavens. The Spartans were men who took boys for pleasure, wives for breeding, and were praised by their society for it. Deceit always seems to grow like weeds. A few scatter here and yon, but their abundant growth comes in patches. And their encroachment upon good ground is through those patches.
-----I probably said several times too many during the Clinton administration that America was finished. I was jumped a few times for it, too. But people reflect what they see accepted especially by those of iconic stature - movie stars, singers and artists and renowned Professors at prestigious universities. And Presidents. It isn’t quite that simple. Nixon’s Watergate was a real scorching of America’s conscience. Yet Clinton’s affairs and bank scandals and foreign campaign funds and dead bodies scattered along his happy trails never seemed to pique the press’s interest in doing anything other than cover for him. And you know the icon has become iconic for his deceit when his pet name is “Slick Willy”, the Teflon President. You know America’s conscience has burned to a useless crisp when a “Slick Willy” is re-elected to lead the “free" world. America was finished when the press discovered that beyond the power of truth for destroying Presidencies was a greater power of deceit to prop up Presidencies. Bill Clinton made lying a new norm.
-----Because of that decade's lessons, in the Summer of 2000 I suggested to Scott McInnis that if with G.W. Bush elected as President, the Republicans did not take the media to task and publicly expose as greatly shameful its deceitful ways, then their new President could go to war and free fifteen million people and still the media would drum him out of office within four years. Deceit is so very predictable.
-----And yet, nobody of significant stature publicly battles deceit. We saw deceit destroy and wash up Bush's relatively decent administration, and we’re seeing deceit destroy a relatively decent people and prop up an extraordinarily evil administration. The man of lawlessness is probably not Barrack Obama, although Obama is definitely a man of lawlessness. His soul lying in the Whitehouse portends how great has become that advance of deceit preceding The Man of Lawlessness. From evolution to the praise of gay, the shared concepts of this world have dropped off the vine to rot in the dirt, and most people defend them like prize cherries.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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