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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and

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faith. Today, are you a full-fledged devotee of the cult of the lie? Oh, socialist tyrannies like

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the one we are under always depend upon lies to acquire, maintain, and extend their power.

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George Orwell said cynically but truthfully, even when the state tells the truth, it is a lie,

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meaning that at the base of the state's power is a big lie and that all things must serve the

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narrative of that lie, even the truth. The narrative does not have to be true, but it must serve the

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interest of the state. For example, the lie of the insurrection of January 6 serves the interest of the

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deep state because its ultimate goal is a conviction of Donald Trump of insurrection under

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the provisions of the 14th Amendment, Section 3, which bars anyone who has served in the government

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but who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, quote-unquote, from holding office

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again. But the cult of the lie goes deeper than getting Donald Trump. It goes to the very core of

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the existence of the socialist deep state and its illegitimate rule over us. The big lie of the

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socialist state is, ironically, that we speak the truth. The state says we speak the truth. That's

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the big lie. And it is the lie that must be believed for socialism to succeed. It was true at the dawn of

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the Soviet Union and the communist Chinese party and has been true of every Marxist state since, including

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the American deep state. Orwell, in his classic 1984, his classic novel 1984, which revealed the true

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nature of communism, by the way, the Department of Government charged with informing the public was

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called, euphemistically, the ministry of truth. Ah. But of course, its entire mission was to aggrandize

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the power of the state and completely tyrannize the people. And more often than not, that meant

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propagating lies rather than the truth. Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, so

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we must invade. Remember this from the debate over Obamacare, right? If you like your doctor, you can keep

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your doctor. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. And the average American will save $2,500

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per year. All lies meant to aggrandize the power of the state. Or this, January 6th was an attack on

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our democracy. It was a violent, malicious event on a par with Pearl Harbor and 9-11. Lies, all of them.

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And all of these lies and more, they were not meant to serve the people, but the power and interest

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of the deep state. In fact, all of the particular lies that fly off from the ministry of truth,

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like popcorn kernels from a popcorn popper, they're all sourced in the original lie. That is,

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we speak the truth. But it is a lie. Rather, our socialist deep state speaks a narrative designed

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to obtain, maintain, and expand its power. That is what the deep state does. That is the propaganda put

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out by the deep state. It is a narrative designed to obtain, maintain, and expand its own power. That

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is all. Truth plays no part in that narrative either, unless it serves the narrative. Now,

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the tyrannical character O'Brien in the novel 1984, at the end of the book, says this to Winston.

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Very insightful. O'Brien tells Winston, the main character in 1984, at the end of the book, he says,

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the party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others. We are

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interested solely in power, pure power. Power is not a means. It is an end. One does not establish a

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dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution. One makes the revolution in order to establish the

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dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture.

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The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me. Unquote. Oh, very baldly put.

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But that, indeed, is the nature of the state. Now do you begin to understand our socialist deep state

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current in America? Power is an end in itself, as O'Brien says. And if it served to acquire power over

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you to tell you that, well, then that would become a part of the narrative put before you. But people

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rebel against that notion, right? Power is an end in itself. It's the truth. And consequently, a lie

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must be told instead, which you must believe as the truth. Power to the people. I remember that

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reigning slogan from the 60s. Or this today, equity for oppressed people of color. Of course, that is from

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critical race theory. Or this, only the voices of the marginalized need be heard. And that,

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that epigram serves as the basis for censorship and cancel culture. Or we're all in this together.

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Remember that from the pandemic? Lies. All of them. The lie which must become axiomatic, however,

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for all other lies is that the state has the good of others. That is, your best interests at heart,

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not its own power. That's the lie which must prevail. That is why we do what we do, the state says.

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And that's why we say what we say. It's for you. We want you to wear masks, not because it's a badge

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of servitude to the state, but because it's for your health and the health of others, for the greater

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good. We want to eliminate fossil fuels and your car and put you in a tiny house, not to restrict you

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and impoverish you, no, but for the environment, for the greater good. We want to confiscate all of your

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firearms, not to disarm you from protecting yourself against us, no, but for your own safety and the

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greater good. So, this axiomatic lie reinforces the big lie. That is, we speak truth. When the state

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speaks, it speaks truth, and it does so for the greater good. That's the big lie. Consequently,

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it must be believed. And this, no matter what your senses or your reason tells you. George Orwell says

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again, one of his characters puts it this way, the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes

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and ears. It was their final, most essential command. Oh, insightful. The state's final and

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most essential command to you is to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. The state lies,

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and it must be believed as truth, the truth, that it speaks the truth. And we, the state, will use all

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the force at our command to make you reject the evidence of your eyes and ears if those evidences

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intrude with contrary information. So, behold, another insight from George Orwell.

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It is the state's final, most essential command for you to reject the evidence of your eyes and

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ears. Indeed, if they cannot make you do this, then they cannot make you believe the big lie. That is,

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the state speaks truth. That is why the ministry of truth, under whatever name it goes in the particular

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state and culture resides. For example, the captured lapdog lackeys of the mainstream media here in

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America. If they, the ministry of truth, under whatever name it goes, has the greatest effort spent

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in generating narratives which deny the evidence of your eyes and ears. And those narratives reinforce

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the lies which the state wishes to propagate. And of course, the material that results from lies

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propagated is called propaganda. And that is the steady diet of information you are being fed,

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comrade. The author John Grierson puts it this way. He says, the oblique paradox of propaganda

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is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. Oh, isn't that true? The lie

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in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. That's kind of another way of putting it the

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way Joseph Goebbels, German minister of information, puts it. He says, tell a big lie often enough and it

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becomes the truth, right? But of course, none of this would be effective. None of this would matter to the

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human condition if men were not susceptible to lies. If you were not susceptible to lies, dear listener,

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to propaganda, to the big lie. Do you believe indeed that the state speaks truth? Indeed, then you believe

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the big lie. But we are susceptible to these things, aren't we? Many of us fall prey to propaganda

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and we are manipulated by it. And so many do not even know it. So many are unaware of their being

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conditioned and, yea, brainwashed by propaganda. But the state must rely on this fatal flaw in our

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nature in order to acquire, maintain, and expand its power. It must rely on the weakness of the human

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condition to fall prey to propaganda and the big lie. What is it in us then, dear listener, that makes us

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vulnerable to propaganda? Especially to the big lie? That is, the state speaks truth. The state speaks

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truth. Is that a lie that you believe, dear listener? What makes us vulnerable? Who is it that

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falls under the sway of the big lie? Who is it that falls under the sway of propaganda? Oh, let me give

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you a few examples. Number one, those who are afraid are susceptible to propaganda. Oh, it's one of the

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baser, uh, vibrating, uh, wavelengths of the human condition. Fear. Those who are afraid are susceptible

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to propaganda. Fear is golden to the socialist state. Fear is perhaps the chief motivator to herd

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the lemmings towards the cliff. Never has it been used with such effectiveness and devastating

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consequences, however, than during the recent, or might we say even ongoing, COVID hoax. Fear. Fear of an

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unseen virus made us do what we would never do in the calm light of day. That is mask up, lock up, and

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vax up, right? But the masters of propaganda used our fear to play us like a concert violin. And when the

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adrenaline rush of fear subsided, we found ourselves no safer for these measures, but in reality, having

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fewer rights, far more restrictions placed on us than before, and increasingly under the thumb of the

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state than ever before. And we can also say arguably sicker than we were before. Just look at the vaccines

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and their devastating consequences amongst us. The truth is that many more people are under the sway

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of the cult of the lie after being driven by COVID fear than ever before. Are you one of those, dear

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listener? Are you one of those who still believe that Anthony Fauci really has your best interest

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at heart? Are you one of those that still believe that the lockdowns, despite their devastating our

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economy, destroying small businesses, and driving people literally crazy, and doing all kinds of

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negative impacts within our culture? Are you one who still believes that the lockdowns were a good

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thing and a necessary thing? Well, then, you indeed are under the sway of a cult of the lie, because

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those who are afraid are definitely susceptible to propaganda. Well, number two, those who hate and act

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on prejudice are susceptible to propaganda, too. Those who hate and those who act on prejudice are also

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susceptible to propaganda. Hatred of the other is a most reliable motivator for the propagandist.

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Are you one who has fallen prey to this motivation, dear listener? Hatred, prejudice, several of those

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primal emotions that man loves to act upon, even when he knows it's wrong. There's something compelling

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about them, isn't there? Hitler relied upon hatred to prosecute the Holocaust against the Jews.

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The Communist Chinese Party today is relying upon the abiding feelings of racial superiority that is

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prejudiced against other races. The feelings of racial superiority of the Chinese people and Chinese

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culture to aggressively expand China's power all over the world. So, in fact, so prominent is hatred and

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prejudice in motivating people to act by the state. In fact, it could be argued that wars could not be

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fought at all without this primal motivator that is hatred of the other. That's often combined with

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the previous one that is fear. In World War I, for example, we here in America, we still have posters

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ginning up the fear of the primitive barbaric Hun, that is the German. And then in World War II,

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we were taught to hate the inscrutable, slant-eyed, yellow-skinned nip, that is the Japanese. And the

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inertia to refrain from taking another human life built into all of us, and a steady, powerful stream

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of propaganda because of this. A steady, powerful stream of propaganda, consequently, is necessary to

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overcome that inertia against taking a human life. And that steady stream of propaganda is necessary to

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motivate us to kill the enemy. But the primal impulse of the human heart to hate is also strong. And the

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state relies upon it to acquire, maintain, and increase its power over us. In fact, we see it reflected

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even in the COVID hoax, as people are taught to hate the other, that is, the unvaxxed among us.

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Oh, lepers! What would normally be transparent, laughable nonsense, that is, that unvaccinated

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people endanger the vaccinated, who ostensibly are protected by the immunity provided by the vaccine,

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right? What would normally be transparent, laughable nonsense becomes irrational prejudice

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against those unvaccinated. And vituperative hatred is leveled by the vaccinated against the

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unvaccinated, and is fed by the propaganda of the socialist state. We hear official after official

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saying, this is an epidemic of the unvaccinated, and it's really a lie, propagated by hate mongers in

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lab coats. And those susceptible to hate and prejudice come under its sway. Are you one of

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those? Have you fallen prey to the cult of the lie by this motivation? It's a classic example of how a

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lie in the throat by repetition becomes a truth in the heart. Well, another motivation then for coming

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under the sway of propaganda, of enlisting in the cult of the lie, to which many, many Americans have

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fallen prey to the deep state, to the socialist deep state of America, is number three, those who rely

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on authority are susceptible to propaganda. Those who rely on authority are susceptible to propaganda.

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It's also wired into our nature, isn't it, to trust authority for so much of our lives, so much of our

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survival depends on not finding things out for ourselves, but relying on authority. From the cradle,

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we trust our parents, right? Our teachers and experts in many areas of our lives. We trust them for

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information that we otherwise would not have, or maybe die trying to get by experience. But we also

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learn to acquire information for ourselves on our own. As we grow and mature, we establish our own

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authority by gathering our own information. And we are hopefully taught these things, these skills,

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by those same authorities. But that's not always the case. Some never do mature. And consequently,

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some always rely on those in authority for the truth. Oh, and the big lie of the state, of course,

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is we speak the truth. It is really a childlike trait. And it's a sign that the person so brainwashed

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has not matured, who just blindly trusts, then, the authorities for the truth. They say to themselves,

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how do I know it's true? Well, the government told me. Oh, the worst of naivete. Those people

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hypnotized by authority who cannot challenge it or question it or concede that could be wrong

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or possibly even malevolent, these people hypnotized are most susceptible to its propaganda.

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Have you fallen prey then to this aspect of propaganda? Have you fallen prey to the cult

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of the lie? Because you trust authority. Number four, those incapable of or unwilling to think

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independently are susceptible to propaganda. And there's many people in this category today,

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that is, they are those incapable of or unwilling to think independently, and they are susceptible to

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propaganda. It's really a corollary of the previous one, too. America is becoming the land of the

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deliberately dumbed down. It is no coincidence that emerging from public schools, Johnny cannot read

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the very diploma he's been handed, but he will reliably vote Democrat for the rest of his life.

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That's no coincidence. As we see in the headlines on a daily basis, our public schools are places

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where a child is taught what to think, like critical race theory, and not how to think. That is, he's not

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taught reason and logic and history and science. It takes skill and training and plain hard work

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to find and then critically evaluate information for oneself. Information that is not spoon-fed

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by a sycophant media, as the mainstream media is today. But those skills of reason and discernment

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are increasingly rare amid our crisis of learning and thinking, isn't it? Oh, the author, that great

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science fiction author, Robert A. Heinlein, puts it this way. He says, reason is poor propaganda when

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opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men, unquote. That's so good.

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Reason is indeed poor propaganda when it's overwhelmed, when it's opposed, as Heinlein says,

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by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men, which perfectly describes

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the socialist deep state of today. All of the whole pack of them on the hill of Congress

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are shrewd, evil and self-serving men and women, for that matter. Far too many modern Americans are just

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plain ignorant and lazy. These are the easiest men to enslave. The truth is out there from many

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sources, dear listener. For a little work, a little thoughtful analysis, it can be yours. But for many

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of us, it is either a thing beyond our capacities or a thing beyond our will or desire to obtain. We'd

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rather be content with processing what's been fed us by CNN or Fox News or Jen Psaki on the state and

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adjusting our lives then according to that information. And to the delights of the socialist

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deep state, most Americans form themselves in line with tyranny. The author Dresden James, the critic

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and author Dresden James puts it this way. He says, the ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly

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self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are therefore those which blissfully and

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unawares enslave themselves. Oh, the most perfect slaves enslave themselves, don't they? And that's

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what's happening with so much of America these days. Most of America has enslaved themselves.

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We are a nation of the cult of lies. And then fifthly, let me treat briefly another category

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of those who are easily susceptible to propaganda and those who live by tribal identity. That's

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becoming increasingly current in our culture today is that those who live by tribal identity

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are susceptible to propaganda. The human tendency has always been to identify with and gather one

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another into tribes. Within those tribes, one finds a set of beliefs and behaviors that give one a

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distinctive identity from others in the world. And those beliefs and behaviors thus become foundational

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to one's identity. And they are also fiercely defended and nourished by the tribal faithful.

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That includes information and long-standing truths that the tribe accepts without question, right?

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The progressive tribe, for example, diversity is our strength, which is a meaningless phrase,

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or a woman's right to choose the sacrament of abortion, right? Or count all the votes, right? We heard

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that in the last election. Count all the votes, whether those ballots, those votes, are manufactured

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or represent dead people or represent people that have moved out of the state, whatever it might be,

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even the illegitimate ballots must be counted under this thinking, right? Information, long-standing

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truths that the tribe accepts without question. And these are indeed are very susceptible to propaganda.

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The socialist state has relied upon the gathering of its subjects into tribes for a very long time now.

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Many of its lies are indeed tailored to appeal to specific beliefs and behaviors of particular

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tribes. Dear listener, the socialist deep state of America, which is the federal government,

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is a cult of lies governed by the big lie. That is, we speak truth. Have you come under its sway?

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Dear listener, do not fall prey to it, because indeed, our socialist deep state is increasingly

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obvious that they indeed are aggrandizing power for themselves, that they are acquiring and seeking

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power for its own sake, and that they do not have our best interest at heart. In fact, in order to obtain

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and acquire this power, they spin narratives. That is important, isn't it? Like the narrative of January 6th,

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which is a complete falsity, but nonetheless, it is a narrative with a purpose, that is to acquire

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power and to ensure that others, i.e. Donald Trump, do not acquire power at all anymore, even though

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that narrative is composed of lies, exaggerations, and half-truths. And indeed, we are beginning to see

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more and more that those who inhabit, who infest Washington, D.C., that is, the district of criminals,

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are indeed true sons of their father, the first liar. Jesus told those in power, Jesus told the deep

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state of his own day in Israel, that is, the collection, the gaggle of indeed Pharisees and

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scribes and leaders of Israel, he indeed called them sons of their father. He said, you are of your

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father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the

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beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks

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out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Indeed, we find, indeed, the sons of

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this father inhabiting the deep state and, indeed, increasingly becoming a place of lies and cultivating

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and developing a cult of lies. Even the person who does, who realizes this consciously, sometimes

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bends to it because it is, indeed, the trend of the people, and they follow it whether they know they

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should or not. Indeed, when you look at the deep state today, we see that they, indeed, are liars.

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They speak out of their own character, for they are liars, and even as Satan is a liar and the father

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of lies, they follow the character of their own father. Dear listener, do not fall prey to the cult

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of lies today, but seek the truth, first and foremost in Christ, who is indeed the truth. I am the way,

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the truth, and the life Jesus proclaims, and that, indeed, if you seek for him, you seek for the truth,

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that is, the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior. That truth will set you free, and we encourage you,

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then, to seek the truth in Christ, first and foremost, and not fall prey to the cult of lies.

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This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship

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on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 1014th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard, and we encourage you to then

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give us some feedback by calling us, or for more information, at area code 208-523-0196. 208-523-0196.