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Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice Shame On Me

  It is very hard for us to lift up our heads in confidence if we have been deceived.  We need to understand that we are engaged in a battle with the great deceiver.  He is smarter, has been around a whole lot longer, and can be very persuasive.  He can paint a rosy picture or a terrifying one.  He appeals to your fears and knows that your intelligence must come from the Holy Spirit, for without Him living in your life to give you discernment we are all potential prey to the liar and chief.  He is smart enough to not give away too much information just enough to hook you in and once you are there he determines that he can hold you because you feel too embarrassed about what you had come to believe.   There are 74,000,000 citizens of this great country who were fooled.  To understand where the original lies come from we have to go way back many years.  Many years ago Fox news announced that it was "Fair and Balanced".  It neglected to say...

Getting Our Bearings

 These days it is difficult to know what is up and what is down.  For the past five years, America has been in the grip of a man who hated every human being on this planet.  He thought that he deserved recognition for all of the great things he did, like surviving at least three bankruptcies, destroying the image of the Republican Party (in the remainder of this article, I will call them the GOP).  He managed to take down anything good that anyone had done for our fellow man.  I am not going to speak to the physical acts of this individual but more to the dangerously, damaging attitudes that he fostered within the hearts of people who felt that they were already being mistreated.  It is too hard to fathom that in just that short time of aligning himself with some of the worse actors in politics on our planet, he took them all for a great big lie ride.  Sadly, even those people who were once calling themselves the moral majority now are having to deal w...