By: Dale Weckbacher
1 Timothy 1:4
4 Don't let people
waste time in endless speculation over myths and spiritual pedigrees. For these
things only cause arguments; they don't help people live a life of faith in
God.
NLT
As we witness the devolving of our culture with increased
violence, perversion, and animosity towards the people of God, this warning by
Paul to Timothy is even more applicable.
In my previous post, we looked at various false doctrines permeating the
early church and the church today.
However, the church is not the only place where falsehood is in
abundance or what I term liberal mythology.
Each election cycle concerned citizens search for honest
candidates that will govern according to truth.
Unfortunately, these candidates campaign on a platform of truth that
causes a majority of voters to vote them into office, only to have the
candidate flip and begin governing according to a platform of liberal mythology
once in office. We the voters demand
truth for truth,
1)
Liberates – Scripture tells us that truth sets
us free (John 8:32). Besides protecting
the President, the Secret Service also protects the currency against
counterfeiting. In their training,
agents not only receive training to detect counterfeit money but also become
experts in real currency. The theory
here is that if an agent becomes an expert in recognizing true currency, a
counterfeit bill will be obvious to them.
Liberals have controlled the education system for several generations
now and as such have succeeded in suppressing the true history and heritage of
the United States. However, we can help
liberate the next generation by educating them on the truth using social media
and befriending them. We must not be
afraid of engaging these young people for, like it or not, they are the future
of our nation.
2)
Provides security – We were all horrified last
Sunday when the news broke of the massacre in Orlando. My prayers go out to the victims and their
families for having lost loved ones and friends in my life, I am familiar with
the grief they are experiencing, but cannot imagine losing someone in such a
horrific manner. What really shocked me,
as well as others I know, is that I was not surprised that we had a terrorist
attack for our leaders refuse to acknowledge the existence of radical Islamic
terrorists. This lack of truth has
caused us to become lax in our diligence leaving us vulnerable.
3)
Truth destroys falsehood – Unfortunately, the
votes of well-informed voters are often cancelled by the votes of those
educated on falsehood. However, as we
begin educating these low information voters, the falsehoods of their liberal
educations will be destroyed and they too will become educated voters.
Liberal mythology is dangerous and only,
1)
Enslaves – Liberal education conditions people
to depend on government to solve their problems. This liberal conditioning was the basis of
the infamous “Life of Julia” video during the 2012 Presidential election. (1) Those believing what the video teaches might
believe they have no need to pursue truth for no matter what happens in their
lives, they have a nanny government to take care of them. However, the dirty truth is that in order for
that to occur, one must be willing to settle for whatever the government
decides to give them, thus enslaving them to government subsistence instead of
encouraging them to think on their own and pursue truth that liberates.
2)
Endangers innocent people – A co-worker of mine
told me he found it hard to believe one person could kill and wound as many
people as the shooter in Orlando was able to do. I did not have an answer right away but as I
thought about it, the answer became obvious.
Nobody in the club was armed for the club was a gun free zone. In addition, those in the club were oblivious
to any danger believing they were protected by club security and law
enforcement. Unfortunately, these
victims found out too late that by the time law enforcement responds, the
damage had been done. Guns do not kill
people for if you take a gun, place it on the table, and leave it alone, it
does not hurt anyone. A gun only does
something when someone picks it up and uses it.
In most instances this usage is recreational or in self-defense. However, in the hands of someone intent on
killing people in the name of their religion, a gun becomes a weapon of mass
destruction. The best deterrent in these
instances is an armed citizenry using guns in self-defense that can eliminate
the threat.
3)
Deceives – The liberal myth that big government
can meet all of an individual’s needs or that eliminating guns will eliminate
tragedies like what we saw in Orlando is a deception. The economic collapse in Venezuela is a
stark example of how government fails in its attempts to take care of
everyone’s needs. (2) The fact that mass shootings like the recent
one in Orlando occur in gun free zones, places where nobody can legally carry a
gun, proves that elimination of guns only leaves law abiding innocent people
defenseless and easy targets for those intent on killing them. (3)
In this election we must obliterate liberal mythologies with
truth in order to change the nation’s collision course with disaster by voting
for candidates campaigning on truth. We
then must hold these people accountable and should they begin governing
according to liberal mythology, we must let them know we will vote them out of
office in the next election, replacing them with someone that will.
1. Fox News. 'Life of Julia': Welcome to
Obama's Government Utopia. video.foxnews.com. [Online] Fox News, May 4,
2012. [Cited: June 15, 2016.] video.foxnews.com/v/1622104534001/life-of-julia-welcome-to-obamas-government-utopia/?#sp=show-clips.
2. Toro, Moises
NaiTorom and Franscisco. Venezuela is Falling Apart. www.theatlantic.com.
[Online] The Atlantic, May 12, 2016. [Cited: May 28, 2016.] www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/05/venezuela-is-falling-apart/481755/.
3. Richardson,
Samuel. Gun-free Zones are Dangerous, Not Safe. columbiadailyherald.com.
[Online] The Daily Herald, December 13, 2015. [Cited: June 15, 2016.]
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