Dangerous Discernment of Fiction as Fact.

By:  Dale Weckbacher

John 8:31-32

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³² and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

(ESV)

The President is missing and has become the first hostage of a vicious terrorist attack in the Middle East.  The purpose of this meeting was to restore peace in the Middle East, but radical Islamists used the event to orchestrate a well-organized attack resulting in the kidnapping of the President of the United States.  As of this writing, there is little known about the President’s location or well-being.  The Vice President will soon address the nation giving comfort at this traumatic time.  My prayer is that we as a nation will unify in prayer and that our law enforcement officials are able to find our President.   While those hatting Trump, believing he colluded with Russians to win election to the Presidency might view this news as welcome, unification with a purpose of finding our President and dealing with those planning and carrying out this attack must now be the priority of the nation.  Now for the truth.  This report is a total fabrication based upon the fictional novel “The First Hostage” authored by Joel Rosenberg. 

Fiction serves the role of entertaining us.  Good fiction, like that authored by Mr. Rosenberg, has a basis in truth making it easier to believe.  As the illustration in the preceding paragraph illustrated, in a world with numerous terrorist attacks and threats of such attacks, a novel about the President's kidnapping by terrorists is believable and compelling but still fiction and not fact.  However, when the line between fact and fiction becomes blurred, we go down the road of fake news, useless congressional investigations, special counsels wasting taxpayer money, and the needless recusal of a standing Attorney General. 

We now know the truth that the Russian dossier is just a concocted October election surprise designed to propel Hilary Clinton to the White House.  This piece of fiction represents a dangerous depiction of fiction as fact that now endangers the duly elected Trump Administration.  (1)  The danger is that the nation faces an invasion of illegal immigrants taking jobs from unemployed citizens of the nation, especially minority workers.  (2)  The nation faces the continued threat of terrorism perpetrated by radical Islamists, an issue sadly pushed to the back by the mainstream media and political establishment more interested in advancing their agenda designed to force Donald Trump to resign, impeach the President, or use the 25^th amendment to declare him incompetent.  (3) 

The Clinton campaign bought this fictitious report just as I bought Mr. Rosenberg’s novel, all be it their purchase involved a much larger amount of money.  In addition, their purchase is now costing the taxpayer’s money with endless congressional investigations, a special counsel, and the unnecessary recusal of a standing Attorney General.  Now that we know the fictitious nature of the dossier, can we move on to the important issues?  (4) 

While the context of Jesus words that the truth sets us free contained in John 8:31-32 is the truth of the Gospel setting us free from sin, we can also interpret this to mean knowing the truth of the Word of God prevents us from falling for the deception of the Devil (John8:44).  Truth contained in the Bible is contrary to Satan and as Jesus showed in his temptation (Luke 4:1-13), the best means of defeating deceptive lies.  Fake liberal news and educational indoctrination by liberals is making the declaration of the truth difficult and hard for people to understand.  We therefore must focus on exposing fake news and return the educational process back to equipping people with useful skills instead of indoctrinating them to adopt a deceptive liberal political agenda.  We must not allow fiction to become fact and must insure people have the skills to discern the difference. 

Next Saturday we will look at how fake news became prominent in our culture and how the concentration of the means of communication by a politically motivated media prohibits revelation of the truth.  The following Saturday we will look at ways to return education to education and remove indoctrination.  I believe this will pave the way for dissemination of much needed truth into our culture. 

1. Schwartz, Ian. Trump: Clinton-Bought 'Fake Dossier' A "Disgrace," Russia "Hoax Is Turned Around". www.realclearpolotics.com. [Online] Real Clear Polotics, October 25, 2017. [Cited: October 29, 2017.] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/10/25/trump_clinton-bought_fake_dossier_a_disgrace_russia_hoax_is_turned_around.html.

2. Stauffer, Brian. Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers. www.politico.com. [Online] Politico Maazene. [Cited: October 29, 2017.] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216.

3. Riotta, Chris. NEW BILL CALLS ON MIKE PENCE TO ASK FOR DONALD TRUMP’S RESIGNATION. www.newsweek.com. [Online] Newsweek, August 18, 2017. [Cited: October 29, 2017.] http://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-call-donald-trump-resignation-impeachment-odds-new-bill-white-house-652184.

4. Jonathan Easley, Katie Bo Williams, and Morgan Chalfant. Clinton, Trump and the Russia dossier: What you need to know. thehill.com. [Online] The Hill, October 28, 2017. [Cited: October 29, 2017.] http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/357581-clinton-trump-and-the-russia-dossier-what-you-need-to-know.