The lies are clearly lies. There is no effort to make the lies sound true.
The leader of The Dark Side once said, “Nothing you say has to be true. If you say it, people will believe it.”
Nor is there any attempt to hide the evil: cancer research ended, food withheld from children, and medicine for HIV patients stopped.
The poor will be poorer. Millions of people may die.
And democracy, “the great experiment,” the dream of our founding fathers, may be over.
Yet the latest poll says that 53% of Americans are all for it.
That tells us something.
The great Carl Jung said that, in a crisis, you can depend on only 40% of people to act rationally.
A study has shown that, on the other end, 40% will act selfishly and without compassion.
That leaves 20% in the middle who can swing either way.
So, there is no “moral majority.” There is only a moral minority.
Democracy is always up against these numbers.
And so is the church.
And, sadly, much of the church is in the morally confused category.
The firm moral standard of unconditional love, which Jesus preached, is not popular with many Christians.
Jesus is not popular.
Someone checked the sermons of Rev. Jerry Falwell over 10 years; 93% were based on Old Testament scripture.
Not much talk of Jesus.
So, no wonder! We see why so many conservative Christians have gone to the Dark Side.
They don’t hear much about the Light.