John
8:31-32 KJV
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in
my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
(32) And ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free.
The
godlessness and lawlessness of the American left are apparent to the believer.
American Thinker
| Articles: Liberals Wage War on the
Truth http://bit.ly/1vvgge5
By Trevor Thomas
When it comes to political “wars,” in spite of
the meme perpetrated by most liberals, no one is more hawkish than modern
liberals and the political party that they own, the Democrat Party. By
and large since the 1960s, their efforts are summed up by one succinct and
extremely accurate appellation: a war on the truth.
In the history of our nation, only the
pro-slavery Democrats of the 19th century rival the political deception
employed by today’s liberals that lead the modern Democrat Party. Support
of everything from abortion, to gender perversions, homosexuality, pornography,
a redefinition of marriage, wicked climate policies, and an enslaving welfare
state have made today’s Democrat Party little more than a modern-day
Mephistopheles. Instead of magic to lure their Faustian targets, today’s
Democrats employ, among other things, bribery, class warfare, fear, greed,
lust, propaganda, scientism, vengeance, and violence.
This is really unsurprising. When
your politics regularly conflict with absolute truth, constant deception is
required. The evidence is, of course, all around us. This is especially
the case given that we are in the midst of another election season. Take note
of the political ads run by Democrats. How long before we get to meet the next
Julia or Pajama Boy? How many times will we get to hear about, if elected, what
Democrats will do in order to give out more goodies from the government? Where
will the next fraudulent statistics in the “War on Women” originate?
How much “linguistic limbo” will Democrats
perform in order blandly to describe their embracing of the “right” to kill
children in the womb? (Or they simply video their abortions and tell us that
everything is “super great!”) What deceit will liberals [not] use to
explain or embrace the fiscal and medical disaster that is Obamacare?
How many times will we get to hear the phrase “marriage equality” (knowing full
well that the liberal position on marriage also “discriminates”)?
How far away will Democrats
attempt to run from what they really are in order to keep themselves in power?
Liberals all over the country are running from Obama and their own party in an
attempt to win elections. As most who are following this election season know
well, Democrats are going so far as to avoid the label “Democrat” or even admit
that they voted for Obama.
In Kansas, Greg Orman is a Democrat running as
an Independent. He has shamelessly refused to say with which party he would
caucus if elected. “Truth makes the Devil blush,” wrote the English historian
Thomas Fuller. As liberalism has created a culture that is nearly bereft of
shame, today’s Democrats rarely blush, even as they mock their wheelchair-bound
opponents. This usually happens only when someone becomes a political liability
(as did the Democrat candidate that Orman replaced) and not because some proper
moral standard has been violated.
If Orman does win, as theWall Street Journal
notes, he will most certainly owe his election to Washington Democrats.
Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes squirmed like Jim Carrey in Liar Liar
as she attempted to avoid revealing to the Louisville Courier-Journal editorial
board whether she voted for Obama in the last presidential election. Mary
Landrieu and Michelle Nunn have played similar games as they try to win U.S.
Senate seats in conservative states.
Given how far our culture has fallen morally,
getting elected in the United States these days is much more challenging when
you are accountable to absolute truths. As I noted earlier this year, because
their moral bar is so low and easily adjusted to whatever is politically
popular, liberals today generally have an easier time “playing politics” than
conservatives -- especially Christian conservatives.
When asked recently how to break the stalemate
in the culture war that divides American conservatives and liberals, Catholic
scholar George Weigel replied, “When you have a gnostic philosophy that ignores
the very fabric of reality -- and it is wed to a coercive state -- it’s hard to
know where to go.”
Ignoring “the very fabric of reality” is a
frequent practice of modern liberals. Liberalism is so far removed from truth and
reality that many liberals today can’t even acknowledge explicit evil when
confronted with it. Ben Affleck has plenty of company among his fellow leftists
when it comes to denying the rotten fruit of Islam. As the recent exchange with
fellow liberal Bill Maher illustrated, many American liberals, in the name of the
supreme virtue of liberalism – tolerance -- will eagerly and angrily deny
lesser virtues of their “faith.”
“Tolerance is a virtue of a man without
convictions,” wrote G.K. Chesterton. A “man without convictions” who frequently
“ignores the very fabric of reality” and who is enthusiastically “wed to a
coercive state” is an apt description of modern liberals, but not perfect.
In spite of what they themselves might think -- lost in their fallacy that is
today’s tolerance -- liberals are not completely tolerant, and
thus not devoid of convictions.
The convictions of modern
liberalism are numerous and growing: Abortion, homosexuality, hook-ups,
same-sex marriage, gender confusion, man-made global warming, universal
healthcare, income redistribution, and whatever is the next perversion or
deceit that will strike at the heart of biblical truths.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident”
helped launch the American Revolution. If America is to remain, we need a
spiritual revolution bringing us back to those truths that were once so
“self-evident.”
Trevor
Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics,
Science, Faith, and Reason.
Trevor and his wife Michelle are the authors
of: Debt
Free Living in a Debt Filled World http://amzn.to/1sfHgud
tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com
[My emphasis and links.]
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