[jazusamo]

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[Dan(9698)]

I did not quite know how “witch hunt” characterized the often disreputable tactics of Joe McCarthy — cruel and obnoxious were the better adjectives. You see, there were really communists in Hollywood at a time of a dangerous global cold war against communism

This myth is so ingrained into the country's "memory" that even those who comment on matters cite it as fact.

McCarthy had nothing to do with any "witch hunt" involving Hollywood. Any writing that comments on McCarthy's "tactics" loses credibility when "McCarthyism" is used to castigate people.

[massatoosits]

I love VDH, but his writing style is, on occasion,
obtuse if not downright unreadable. Remember Strunk!

[Blind Eye Jones]

Lies yes, but don’t lie in bed too long thinking about it. It’s not worth it.

[rogue yam]

ping

[snowsislander]

This is an excellent essay by Dr. Hanson.

[Travis McGee]

VDH is one of our most brilliant.

[PENANCE]

I would swear that the Left in America is actually using “1984” as an instruction manual.

[theBuckwheat]

And if the kingdom of political lies is not bad enough, we have the kingdom of lies about the Kingdom of God.

We could start with the upcoming celebration of Easter, a day that is not mentioned a single time in the Bible, at least not in any translation that is honest about the original Greek texts. Easter is just a lie. Jesus taught the Apostles to observe Passover. The Apostles were faithful in teaching that and nothing else. It took a few hundred years for the kingdom of lies to worm its way into Christianity.

The matter was finally settled by government coercion when Emperor Constantine decided there was some political juice in coming down on the side of Easter. Today, supporters of the kingdom of lies call their triumph the Quartodeciman Controversy, as if a matter of scriptural truth should be left to a political figure to settle by threat of death.

The kingdom of lies designates another day near the winter solstice as the birthday of Jesus. Coincidentally, this day falls in the time of the pagan celebration Saturnalia and has many of the same customs. The kingdom of lies is so confident of its hold on most people that it allows publication every year in many news periodicals about the pagan roots of Christmas, knowing full well that this news will just be treated as if it were merely quaint history. Few care that Jesus was really born in the Fall of the year instead of the dead of winter.

The whole world is a captive today of the Kingdom of lies. At Christmas time, some people love to sing Handel’s Messiah that includes a chorus that praises the day when the kingdoms of this earth (lies) will become the kingdoms of Our Lord (who is called the Truth).

Part of that overthrow will be when the head liar is bound and thrown in the bottomless pit for a thousand years. Then the Kingdom of Truth can proceed.

Yes, there are Christians today that turn their back on the Kingdom of lies and seek the Kingdom of Truth. This branch of Christianity is called Primitive Christian, and those who practice this faith will be keeping the same holy days that Jesus taught the disciples to keep. They will be seeking the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Since the first step in adopting the kingdom of truth is being able to reject the lies, you won’t find them practicing Christmas or Easter. You won’t find them in church on Sunday either, for they keep the same day that Jesus kept. To people who live in the kingdom of lies, the kingdom of truth is strange and foreign indeed.