The Age of the Great Apostasy
“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf 1925, 1933
“At that time, many will turn away from the faith and hate and betray each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people” the Gospel of Matthew 24:10-11.
Folks, as much as I am loathed to say it, we are living in the age of the Great Apostasy. From religion to politics to commerce to academia to the media and, ultimately, unto contemporary society in general, what constitutes a lie is presented as truth, and what actually is truth is said to be a lie.
The examples of these lies are boundless, and America is falling prey to the great deception that threatens our very survival…as a people and as a nation. To wit:
- Pope Francis, whose offices devout Catholics are taught to be the vicar of Christ on Earth, and whose teachings are supposedly infallible, is encouraging and proselytizing doctrines not found in scripture, but rather in 20th Century revisionism and socialist dogma. In the process of doing so, he has taken issue with long-held teachings of Christ’s infallibility, Christ’s birth of the Virgin Mary, and even the resurrection of Jesus Christ following His crucifixion. To question these truths is nothing short of an attempt to sabotage Christianity in general, and the Catholic faith, specifically. Also, many Protestant denominations are swimming in a cesspool of post-modern revisionism and are falling away from the Gospels and other teachings in the Old and New Testaments.
- On a daily basis, we are told by politicians of both major parties, that President Donald Trump is a racist, that he is a misogynist, that he is a white supremacist, a neo-Nazi and a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan, who will lead this country into the great abyss and bring on a third World War if he is re-elected in 2020. There is absolutely no truth to any of this and nothing can begin to substantiate the validity of these libelous and slanderous accusations, but we hear these same outlandish claims day after day, after day.
- Tech giants, such as Facebook and Google are manipulating what people see on the internet and are even going to the extremist position of silencing the opinions of conservatives, generally, and Trump supporters, specifically. In other areas, large swaths of corporate and commercial interests use money to spread influence with the “connected” powers of the Deep State, and who pays the price of all this? We do…
- Academia has long been a place where leftist, agnostic and atheistic ideology is indoctrinated into the minds of young people, but now we see hard evidence that this mindset is being implanted into the thinking of the very young, starting in the earliest years of elementary education. At many universities across the nation, any thought or expression of thought that is in direct conflict with liberal and socialist dogma, is censured and can result in poor grades, social isolation, and threats to the personal safety and well-being of those students who don’t toe the ideological line.
- The media, all of the media, is spreading the lie that that (pick your candidate- Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, Buttigieg, Booker) will trounce Donald Trump in the next election, that the country is headed into recession of the worst proportion, and that Trump is advocating the use of concentration camps for all immigrants, legal or otherwise. In fact, there is scant difference in what the media reports as truth and what Democrats express in their rhetoric.
- The fact that a majority of Gen-Xers and millennials are falling away from religion, that to these younger Americans, patriotism and national identity are quaint and unimportant relics of the past, and that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with socialism speaks loudly and clearly that we are headed into perilous times ahead. Ignorance on a small scale is pathetic, but such ignorance on a large scale can doom society into the darkest of places where the forces of evil (and, yes, these forces are quite real) can pursue an agenda designed to destroy humanity, itself.
As we enter into this Labor Day weekend of 2019- a weekend designed to honor the American worker and the very fruits of his and her labor, let us also determine for ourselves that there is much work…hard work…to be done to deliver this nation and this world from the consequences of those who would deceive and demagogue us into oblivion.
May God bless us all and may He deliver us from all of the evil that abounds in our nation and in this world.
-Drew Nickell, 28 August 2019
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