The “News”

Do you watch the news? Do you react to it? Is your reaction positive or does it do to you what it does to me, send you into a towering rage?

Only you know the answer, but I’m guessing that you probably should avoid it as the quicksand it is.

Once caught up in daily news, you won’t die, as only movie quicksand drags you in that far, but you also might now be able to move.

When lies become so debilitating that you can’t function, they’ve got you. The liars, the men with evil agendas, the bad guys. Villains so vile that I understand what Daniel 12:4 means when it says many will run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.

The Internet.

You no longer need go to a library to consult texts. You just punch up a query on a search engine, and link after link shows up.

Anything you want is right there, from the proper pronunciation of a word to people doing unspeakable things to each other.

But that doesn’t make you wise, and quite a lot of information you get steered toward is a bunch of lies.

I’ve gone to Wikipedia many times, and although I mostly trust what I read, I have also gone back to a specific subject I’ve already read to refresh my memory, and what I have found was an entirely different article with no resemblance to what used to be there.

This has also been the case with Snopes, which I no longer trust. It doesn’t mean that I don’t trust Wikipedia; but one must check sources and references to ensure that what is there is accurate.

That responsibility is on each researcher; in a world of lies, you and I are the final judges of what is true and what is false.

A recent lie is that someone in the Trump administration (regime) got representatives of India and Pakistan to meet for peace talks.

The truth is that nobody wants to hear from Americans anymore. And you may think that they are just angry at the administration, but that’s not entirely true. The American people are letting the world economy collapse.

As a democracy, this country is supposed to be above all this. Therefore, we are seen as complicit. Us. All of us.

All we get are lies. Sure, there are many who speak the truth, but the architects of disinformation are scrambling to drown them out, especially with the threat of putting people in concentration camps.

People in other countries don’t understand why we sit here and take it. I understand their puzzlement.

During World War Two, we were supposed to be the good guys, the marauding avengers of the oppressed and occupied people in Europe and the Pacific.

Maybe that’s true, but we didn’t come out of it without lots of innocent blood on our hands. And since the Korean War ceasefire (the war is not over), we’ve never engaged righteously in any armed conflict. Not in Vietnam, not in Iraq, and certainly not in Afghanistan.

Remember that phrase from the Rules of War? That you never attempt to invade Russia?

You don’t do it to Afghanistan, either.

We as a race will tell any lie to engage in our most passionate endeavor: war.

And any lie will suffice to give reason to a new slaughter.

The Nazis did not learn from Napoleon Bonaparte.

America did not learn from the Soviet Union.

Nobody learns. Despite a wealth of available knowledge, nobody learns.

I may have misunderstood Daniel 12, but I can make my case.

The real problem is, those who do learn are silenced by men with the most evil of aspirations.

Jesus Christ said that the devil was the father of lies, of every lie ever told.

Satan will lead us whenever we follow the men who listen to him. He speaks not through words but by temptation. By making his own case through one’s jaded rationalization. How easy has it been for us to justify to ourselves that a lie was the best way out of a bad situation? Or the best way to get what we want?

Or maybe just to get attention?

The news is a wire barrel stuffed with index cards waiting for someone to reach in and announce the winner of a raffle. Good gets mixed with bad, evil versus what’s right. When mixed enough by the crank handle, the people will believe anything.

There are U.S. citizens who still venomously back and defend their “leaders” but their numbers are dwindling fast.

That’s because the price of electing a bigot and a felon has placed them in a position where they are less than a paycheck away from losing the shelter over their heads. Imagine being in such a position. It’s terrifying.

I have no answer. To anything. My own reactions to news are full of hateful comments. I have only myself to blame; I know I can’t handle the lies and the hate. I’m nothing but a sinner and that, I’m afraid, I cannot change.

I only know that desperate times call for prayer and fasting.

Not because it will save the world.

Because it will save your soul from torment far worse than anything we can imagine.

The sacrifice of Jesus Christ was for you. Turn off the news, seek help if you need it, and pray.

And take care of yourself. That’s important, because The Lord loves you.