| (Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) |
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| “If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.” – Dwight Eisenhower “The lie in the Soul is a true lie.” – Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) This life’s five windows of the soul Distorts the Heavens from pole to pole, And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not thro’, the eye. – William Blake (1757-1827) To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. – Wm. Shakespeare (1564-1616) DISCLAIMER: Can’t say I’ve never told a lie. Didn’t call it a “talking point” though. Shakespeare wrote: “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not . . .. Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; a fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.” “The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion . . .. Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle.” – Edmund Burke (1729-97) I was just given a book, “YOU SAID WHAT? Lies and propaganda throughout history,” by Bill Fawcett (Harper, 2007), and he says: “The lie was the keynote deception for one of the darkest past of European history. I am not sure what so many Germans’ believing it says about them or the world over half a century ago. What do we believe that is just as wrong today?” Burke said: “Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist . . .. Tyrants seldom [lack] pretexts . . .. Falsehood has a perennial spring.” “The lie that flatters I abhor the most . . .. Stamps God’s own name upon a lie just made, to turn a penny.” – William Cowper (1731-1800) “An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad.” – Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight. – Tennyson (1809-1892) CONCLUSION: “Whosoever loveth and maketh a lie won’t be in God’s Kingdom.” – Revelation Unlike George Washington, we’ve all told them, but I never loved one. In the mouth of two or three witnesses (“bear not false witness”). A few words more from the Scriptures: “They have set up kings, but not by Me.” “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice.” “Woe unto that nation whose king is a boy . . . Women and babes shall rule over them.” “For so is the will of God that you may put to silence the foolishness of ignorant men, not using your liberty as a cloak for malice, but as bond-servants of God.” “Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty.” Burke said, “Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety,” but to re-phrase the imperative above, written by Peter to the scattered Tribes in Asia Minor: “Use your Freedoms to put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.” P.S. “A few honest men are better than numbers.” – Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm . . And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. – Wm. Cowper PPS: Like never before, it’s high time to pray! ———————————————————————————————————- See Curtis Dahlgrens other articles at: Dahlgren, Curtis – Church of God, Bismarck (church-of-god-bismarck.org) Reprinted with permission from: Renew America http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/dahlgren/220131 ———————————————————————————————————- |
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