If Truth Is To Survive

May 30

Words. Words are cheap. We live in an age of mass communication where words bombard us from so many sources and with so many conflicting ideas that it is virtually impossible to know what to believe. The sheer volume of TV advertising is enough to boggle the mind, let alone the need to sort through the ‘news’ to ascertain truth.

As with the ads from products offered for sale, the news itself is now presented with an agenda in mind. It is no longer delivered objectively and factually but reflects the marketing strategy of its presenters who want the viewer to be persuaded to a point of view, rather than to be informed.

The new bias in news reporting as well as in general TV and movie viewing is geared toward tearing down our culture—the value system, the laws, the faith—that made us the people we are. The new bias is bent upon transforming us into part of a ‘new order’ which negates all that made us unique and all that blessed us as a nation. Our leadership is shifting gears away from truth and embracing a lie.

As we see our values, based on the Judeo-Christian belief system denigrated and others extolled, as we see our common faith denied, we must keep in mind the essential truth of John 3:16 if we are to survive and if truth is to survive in the onslaught of lies: “God so loved the world, He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”