Have you noticed that deception has become an epidemic in America? Deception is the rule of the day and most people buy into the deception because they can no longer discern truth from lies or they actually want to believer liars. For example the rhetoric that most whites are racists but blacks are not while black gangs beat white people in many cities in this nation. Or the lie that everyone wealthy got their money at the expense of others.
Deception is so ingrained into our American society today that I hardly know where to begin to even talk about it. Superman with his truth, justice and the American way was the ideal of Americans in the 1950’s, but the trend in America just some 50 years later is now lies, injustice and the deceptive way.
There is deception in religion, there is deception in our government, there is deception in our justice system, there is deception in the market place, and there is deception in almost every service that you purchase.
Who can even find a real man of integrity anymore in America? No wonder that people in business don’t want to hire anyone. If they do it is very likely that they will be deceived in more ways than one and good luck trying to get rid of a bad worker who feels entitled to the job because he/she was born.
I will just make a few observations of my own to make my point.
Deception in Religion:
Mormons keep pretending to be Christians when they really are pagans that think that they are becoming gods through their own achievements. They will lie in your face about what they actually believe just to entrap you into their cult.
Glenn Beck had a rally to support Israel but ended up promoting himself and complaining that the Christians were the only group that would not accept that he was saved. Saved from what?
Before you read what Jack Kensella said about his trip to Israel to be at the Beck event read what Jan Markell of Olive tree Ministries had to say about this.
Note from Jan: Jack Kinsella is a dear friend of mine. We have ministered together on several occasions. He has been my frequent radio guest on “Understanding the Times.” In between, we chat on the phone, agreeing that our Lord’s return could be today. I exhort you to consider his daily e-newsletter, The Omega Letter.It will help you understand the times.
I refrained from commenting on the Glenn Beck Israel tour because I wasn’t on it and I wanted to believe the best. Jack did attend and makes some stunning observations below. He told me far more than in print here, all of it disturbing.
Jack reports that many on the trip were grieved and that his report is not just from one disgruntled participant. There are many voices saying Glenn is “one of us” — even calling him a Christian Zionist. But he is not a Christian and he is trying to pass himself off as a Christian. It was clear to Jack and others that the “Restoring Courage” event was first about Mormon issues and secondarily, about Israel.
Appreciate Glenn Beck for what he does right: Exposing Leftist shenanigans and revealing the Marxists that Jim Wallis and Van Jones are. His warnings are valid. But understand that over time, there will be many sucked into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, one of the most deceptive cults. This fits in just wonderfully now that even evangelicals are looking for “common ground” with Mormons.
Most importantly, pray for Glenn Beck. What a soldier for the Kingdom he would make! He may truly love Israel and the Jewish people. We don’t know his heart when it comes to this issue. But he put together an event that had serious ulterior motives. That doesn’t make him evil but rather, proves that we need to do our homework before we tie ourselves to a bandwagon. Even Jack admits he didn’t research things properly until he spotted some grievous issues.
Know that the Mormon Church has an end-time agenda which includes the “white horse prophecy.” Some day a Mormon will save America. Our Constitution will hang by a thread. To learn more, we endorse the ministry of Ed Decker and carry some of his books on the side bar.
Now read about the deception that Jack Kinsella experienced on Glenn Beck’s Israel rally.
Christian TV airwaves and Christian bookstores are chock full of information by deceptive liars claiming visions and all sorts of presumptions that came from their own deliberate lies or their own unreliable contemplative mysticism (at best like TM with a Jesus figure make up in one’s own mind and at worst a trip right into the occult) rather than the Bible. Often while in Christian company I have to listen to Christians repeat the lies of the “Christian” TV media stars tall tales like what they said on TV was the gospel truth. The same can be said about the books Christian read. They show little discernment because they have little knowledge of the Bible.
Christians need to start reading through the Bible instead of depending on TV for their information and those selling neo-Gnosticism or they are going to get fleeced and barbecued. I recently read that only ten percent of Christians have actually read through the Bible even once in their entire lives. I could be wrong but I would say from my own observations that the ten percent figure is too high.
Deception by the government:
On the national front you might think that we would have a job recovery by now after spending $4 trillion over the last 3 years to stimulate the economy, a $4 trillion that we had to borrow. Now, almost three years into this failed agenda, government wants us to believe that doing more of the same policies that failed to create jobs for the last three years would work if we just allowed them to throw another trillion dollars at the problem. They rob Peter to pay Paul and then they wonder why no wealth is created. After three years, People are still buying into economic lies that can’t create jobs.
The truth is that the only real way we can create new jobs in this country and save the economic future of this country is to get busy developing the abundant energy resources that we have and to quit sending our money to fascist China that will use it to become our worst nightmare in a decade.
It is just plain deception to tell people that they need to buy electric cars and then close the coal plants that will be needed to power these cars. The environmental wackos in government think if you plug it in, the electricity will come. The Government Motors Volt electric car is such a success that even with all the government subsidies, you could put all the Volts made in America on one slow boat to China (and they would probably sink it).
Deception from those claiming to know what we know they do not know:
Americans have to quit believing the lies of people like Al Gore that have their own agenda to make money and make us all socialist slaves of people like themselves. Man made global warming is a deception promoted by control freaks like Al Gore that think there are 5 billion too many humans on the planet and that government should do something about that.
The only man made global warming is caused by these deceivers fanning the carbon fuel flames to warm their very own pot of gravy. I have news for these godless control freaks. God controls the climate on earth. The climate does not change because these hot air producers get paid to keep producing more hot air.
The deception in the market place has also become epidemic in America:
I want to Subway a few months ago and noticed that their 32 ounce cup was deceptively changed to a 30 ounce cup for the same price but they still had a 42 ounce cup. Then last week I went into Subway and the 42 cup was changed to a 40 ounce cup that looks exactly the same as the 42 ounce cup. I guess next week the foot long sub will be close enough at 11 inches. Just like those half gallons in the supermarkets became 48 ounces and the 8 ounce cartons of Yogurt became 6 and the pound bags of salad became 6 to 14 ounces.
I am not picking on Subway, the others probably are or will soon be doing the same things. If I remember right it was not long ago that everyone had 44 ounce cups as their largest drink. I know McDonald’s biggest cup is now 42 ounces but I cannot say for sure if it was once 44. I guess they are counting on our short memories.
They must think we are all stupid and that we will not notice these deceptions. I bet these corporations have brain storm sessions on how they can screw the customer and increase profits without the customers noticing. I can just see them giving shaft of the month rewards.
More deception by government and on government:
Oh yeah…the government deceptively tells us there is little or no inflation. If you believe that fairy tail you probably have way too much money. Products are shrinking in size because the dollar is shrinking in value because of the Fed money printing policy and our foreign trade imbalances.
The deception is not all on the side of government either by a long shot. Many today are doing their best to deceive government and by doing so they are actually robbing those that play by the rules. They are lying on their taxes and some are claiming disabilities that they really do not have in order to get SSI or workman’s compensation. People say they cannot get a job because they would rather sit home and collect a check from the government for years. Any wonder why Americans are so fat? Anything anyone can get away with without getting caught seems to be the rule in much of the country, deception is epidemic.
Deception just to be deceptive:
There is another deception that is coming from people that usually pose as Libertarians. They tell people that everything that America does is controlled by some globalist evil elite. They say all our foreign wars are evil and most everything that we do in the world is about protecting oil for the rich oil barrens and bankers and making money for rich Jews.
Many of these would never claim to be antisemitic, many even claim to be Christians, but by buying into these theories they are promoting hate for the Jews. That along with Islam is why antisemitism is on the rise all over the world. What they spout as truth on websites and radio are anti-government lies and exaggerations and are mostly directed to appeal to the Far Right but their lies actually originated from propaganda from the Far Left enemies of America and the Islamists.
Frankly, there are Far Left Trojan Horses in our camp and they are mostly on the Internet. They promote doctrine that is so radical that people that believe it will be labeled as wackos. I do not want to name names for obvious reasons but I think the real purpose of these anti-government websites is to destroy the Right by being more extreme than most anyone on the right actually is.
The purpose of their existence is to get those on the Right labeled as radical wackos like they pretend to be so that the Left can then demonize the Right. The deception of the Far Left is incredible, they will use any means as a means to an end for world socialism and that is right out of the Communist play book. Check into the personal backgrounds of the people running these anti-government libertarian websites and you just might be shocked and enlightened.
Have you experienced this deception epidemic?
Have you also noticed that you cannot trust hardly anyone anymore to do what they promised? Readers here might be interested in your own experiences with this rising deception epidemic in America. Your comments and experiences on this topic are welcome. One thing we know for sure, Satan was a liar from the beginning and those following him certainly love to prove it.
All good points Don.
Integrity = someone who will do the right thing even when nobody is looking. You are right and this spiritually needs to be looked at…at ourselves and others.
Who speaks truth without ulterior motives ?
I find the best odds of finding people of integrity are those who truly believe in the Lord Jesus, all other have no reason to abide by honesty and integrity…and for those masses, this is what happens when you take God out of society !
About the Mormons and Islam…
I think the Mormons and Islam have it right on their ‘white horse prophecy’…they are going to be so thrilled & exalted when the one comes with what seems like the answers to the world problems…he’s going to be looked at as the Mormon Savior and the Muslim Mahdi…but the truth is, he’s the anti-Christ.
And Don, shame on you for going to Subway…didn’t you know Quiznos & IN-N-OUT are the only choice : )
I would also like to add that the reason why I come to Don’s blog is because I believe that there is integrity and honesty here, both by Don and the commentator’s.
This is a rarity and tough to find on the internet.
David I think the nearest Quiznos is 100 miles away and I can’t even say where the nearest In-N-Out burger place is located. I certainly think they have the best burger franchise. I hope they still have a 44 ounce cup. That is of up-most importance.
I would not put any stock in Mormon or Islamic prophecy being fulfilled. When the Antichrist comes he will probably eat the religious Harlot for lunch after he claims to be Zeus, but I am off topic
Thanx Don, Great observations. I guess I’ll have to start taking a tape measure to Subway when I order one of their footlongs.
Don, have you ever saw the media throw some figures when promoting global warming? For instance, the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere. They just show big smoke towers and melting ice caps.
Don, you are spot on. I cannot believe the deception going on and how people just get sucked in and look at me as the wacko. People do not want to take the time to investigate anything any longer and just accept whatever the media or what a company professes to do for a client. I say what Missouri residents say “Show Me”. People are more worried about reality TV and there own selfish pleasures than what is happening in our country and many don’t worry, they say the gov’t will figure it out. I would’nt put too much blind faith in anyone. While i am only 50 y.o. i cannot believe how divided we have become and how this country has changed. Nobody wants to go down the middle and do whats best for the nation or the people. Read the book “One Second Later” and if anyone wants to see how our country would be after an EMP strike, read this book. I think it took several years off my life and scared the hell out of me enough to send e-mails to our leaders to quit acting like children and get the infrastructure protected. So many people believe the lies of the leftist propoganda and how evil the military, corporations, and America are yet they don’t mind making a paycheck in this country on those lies. I saw on tv yesterday how the Islamic radicals recruit from the colleges and one of the largest groups was started decades ago at my daughters college, University of Illinois/Urbana purveying hate for America and Israel/Jews.Even my own family has changed and though one has gone to the brink before being bailed out by my dad, they are back to the same lifestyle of before where saving money comes second to having your nails done and travelling. What a world Don, maybe we need to drink the kool-aid people are drinking.lol I will be honest, if our country resembled anything similar to what “One Second After” described, i do not think i would want to be around or would i have the courage to go on.
Ric,
I really don’t watch lame-stream media anymore.
Climate change hype by the Left media is really a tool for the sustainable development agenda of the UN. They want to brainwash people to believe that the world has to be totally managed by the self appointed “enlightened” socialist elite. If global warming goes away they will find something else to try to scare people into supporting their global governance agenda. Of course there is also a lot of money to be made by those pulling off the con.
Thanks for your input Robert,
I think I need to get that “One Second After” book myself. I know what the experts say but it would be interesting to see how it plays out in novel form. Of course I may get to see the book play out in real life. It may become the ultimate reality show for all.
It is kind of interesting that we are very near the end days and America is not in Bible prophecy and then this EMP danger pops up that could do us in within months. Or perhaps America actually is in Bible prophecy and is the nation in Isa 18. It sort of fits a nation hit by a EMP and could the gift be the remnant Jews in the US after the Lord returns and the US recovers? I am not saying I actually buy into such a fulfillment of this passage but it does make for interesting conjecture.
Its sickening isn’t it Don! Sometimes I wonder if life wasn’t easier on me before my eyes were slowly opened to what is going on in our country. Mainsteam media is laughable, every thing they do seems to have an agenda. The reporters have become the experts and eveything has a slant. Whatever happened to just reporting the news and letting the consumer make his own judgments. If you keep telling someone the same thing over and over they will beleive it. Homosexuality is a case in point. I am 43 years old and just 20 years ago Homosexuality was considered a sin and perversion by almost everyone. Boy has that changed! The media has hammered the fact that gays shouldn’t be discrimated against and that there is nothing wrong with it. Its taught in our schools to be a perfectly acceptable lifestyle. The government is making laws to protect them from “hate speech” and changing laws so they can be married and now they can even serve openly in the military. Do you think something is wrong with Homosexuality, like the bible clearly states? You sir are “homophobic” one of those labels the media invented and loves to promote. It sure has changed Americas thinking on the subject in a short period of time. Used to be you thought homosexuality was perversion you were considered normal.
As far as the jobs thing, I don’t think they are coming back. I remember in 1992 Ross Perot saying if you vote for this guy-democrat or that guy-republican they are gonna pass NAFTA and the first thing you are gonna hear is a giant sucking sound and that sound is your jobs being sucked overseas. And since then we have signed many other free trade agreements with many other countries. Ross was right. In 1992 40% of US jobs were in manufacuring, today 18% are in manufacturing. Unless we get out of those agreements the jobs in manufacturing aren’t coming back. Not at least until the standard of living has fallen in America and we are now the source of cheap labor for the Corporations. The way it currently stands if a person in the US invents something, they take their patent and build the product in a foreign country for the cheaper labor. Then they are able to sell their product back here in America with no Tariff imposed on them. You very rarely hear anything about this from the Media or the Politicians, why you say? Its the corporations that are benefitting from this arrangement and the corporations are the one financing the Gov. through campaign contributions and the Media through commercials.
Anyway just ranting a little bit, the lies and the deceptions make me sick and ticked off.
Great article Don!
Don,
This just showed up on the The American Dream site. It dovetails nicely with your article. We face some truly terrifying days ahead if Jesus doesn’t return soon.
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/fukushima-is-continually-blasting-all-of-us-with-high-levels-of-cesium-strontium-and-plutonium-and-will-slowly-kill-millions-for-years-to-come?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fukushima-is-continually-blasting-all-of-us-with-high-levels-of-cesium-strontium-and-plutonium-and-will-slowly-kill-millions-for-years-to-come
Sorry, I don’t know how to make a “tiny URL”.
On a slightly different topic — and I know how much you just love for us to get off topic ;-). Once upon a time you mentioned how to switch that green/yellow/purple squiggly monster for an avatar of our choosing. Can you repeat that information? It would help us who share names not to be confused by your readers. I like ~David’s solution.
Doug,
I am no expert but I think the truth is somewhere in-between what most have been told and what that article suggests. Certainly certain types of cancer will increase if radiation levels in the world increase. The article suggests that hundred of millions will die. I think over 7 billion people will die in the next hundred years and of those seven billion maybe a few million will die a year or so before they might have without the cancer. Of course that would also be assuming that we will not have advances in cancer treatment and prevention over the decades but we will. So don’t anyone go out and commit hara kiri over that article. Even so, it certainly is a problem especially for Japan. I think all the rich people in Japan should move here it might solve our immediate revenue problem.
On your question on how to change face. You just create a Gravator at Gravator.com and then it follows you wherever you post. You do have to log in but that is no big deal. If you do that maybe next time I see you, you wont look like a cute frog/rat.
Oh by the way, you can change the automated face you have by changing your email address
Don,
Went to Gravator.com. The site is up for sale and didn’t see any place to make an avatar. Am I missing something?
Doug, I see you still look like a cute frog/rat
Hmmm….apparently it is now all in a sub domain. Here is the link. I tried it and it works. Just click the button on the page and follow the instructions
http://en.gravatar.com/
Deception is epidemic in America !
It seems that we, as Americans, and probably world wide have to watch every step we choose…because there are swindlers everywhere.
I remember reading about scams to get people to send money after 9/11, Katrina, Iraq, Soldiers in Afghanistan, etc.
I just received an email the other day with an official looking USPS page, that said I had a package waiting. Phone number, everything was authentic…but it was a phishing scam.
The worst part of these scams is it targets those not in know which are many…or the poor in their desperation.
I remember when I was a kid, I sent money on “how to make money at home in your spare time”…the response I got back was to send out advertisements like this on “how to make money at home in your spare time”…and charge a fee, of course.
Jack Kinsella (see Don’s link) has an article on the deception involved regarding his trip to Israel to attend Beck’s “event.”
It is my experience that most people are quite happy being deceived!!!!
Pamela,
I think what you just said is a very accurate and profound statement, right on the money.
I think also that if I didn’t have the Lord Jesus, I’d want my own customized reality also.
Hi Don, thank you for this very interesting article. I totally agree when you said that people buy into the deception because they can no longer discern truth from lies. And base on my observation this is very true especially to our country.
Agreed!! My own experience: this summer having local elected officials (some of them christians) lie to my face (and to the public) about an issue that I had spent a lot of time researching and in prayer about to find the truth. And the truth was not what they were espousing. All this in order to gain voter popularity to pass a measure. The measure failed, by they still “found a way around” to getting what they wanted accomplished, accomplished. All-in-all, it was a good lesson in civics for me.
Currently, I’m sad to say, that my small group has decided to study “A Hole in Our Gospel”. I was ignorant about the book on everything but the title– so I had no idea what to expect but after the first sentence into the introduction– red flags like crazy!! The author of this book’s “gospel” is false– his own little social justice works-based gospel that points out poverty and disease and pleads for the real christians to stand up and *do something* about the horrible situation in the world because it’s what Jesus’ vision is– a kingdom now. But that same author doesn’t point to the root cause of it all: sin. And he definitely doesn’t point to Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection as the answer. Ugh!!
So now I’m waiting for what God wants me to do with this deceptive book– completely dismiss it (I already have done so on its premise) in one fell swoop of an explanation, and not participate in my small group’s study of it, or show up week after week using God’s Holy Scriptures to refute it and hoping the Holy Spirit will show people how totally wrong this book is, despite all the “good” this author demands (not implores– demands) we do in the name of his social justice gospel (which he considers to be biblical gospel).
The really saddening thing is that my pastor is the leader of my particular small group and has touted on an on (although nothing specific) about this grandness of the book and is planning a series on American Christianity. I honestly expected something like “American Christianity has been infiltrated with false gospels” but the man is using a book based on a false gospel to draw from for his sermons so I can pretty much guess that “discerning false gospels” is not what the series will be about. Double ugh!!
I know the church isn’t a popularity contest, but sometimes I feel as if I’m the “Debbie Downer” of the group– pointing out the errors and the ties that certain people have with unbiblical teachings and warning people in hopes that they’ll listen. My husband, God Bless him, is an ally in discernment (in fact, I said nothing to him about the book, he read the first chapter, came to me and said “wow, this book is really wrong”), but he works shift work and doesn’t often have Sundays off, so a lot of times it’s just me voicing concern while people mostly stare blankly back.
The Gospel is being attacked every which way; subtle, blatant and every where in between. Deception has become so great that many people that claim to be in the Body will not discern the truth over the lies. My biggest sticking point has always been that Christians do not read and study their Bibles!!! I’m not about to lock myself in a chamber somewhere in an attempt to become some anti-social theological heavyweight, but I’m not going to even consider going out into this world to spread the Gospel without being equipped with God’s Word!! If I don’t know God’s Word, then I’m likely to get sucked right in to believing a false gospel and then turn around and proclaim said false gospel as truth.
I’ll leave with this:
Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what [is] that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Angela ,
Perhaps you should look for a different church , but that would be between Jesus and you.
BLESSINGS , KEEP THE FAITH !!!!!!!
Angela,
Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to (continue)contend-ing earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.
Matthew 10:14 (But) whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet.
1John 1:3 (For) that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:
The problem we all face in this age of apostasy is to find the ‘us’ of this passage from 1John. We know they will be those who have fellowship with the Father and His Son Jesus Christ, but where do they congregate? If we continue contending for the faith we are likely to find out through trial and error.
May the Lord lead you in your quest.
I don’t watch much TV but I just saw Pat Robertson on TV…well read the headline and see the link if you want…
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his ‘700 Club’ viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s is justifiable because the disease is ‘a kind of death.’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44530424/ns/health-alzheimers_disease/?ocid=ansmsnbc11#.TnInj-x6KuI
…what bothers me most is non-Christians are sure to see this and think knuckleheads like him represent Christianity…and what happened to “till death us do part.” ?
David ,
Pat Robertson has proven himself to be a flake at best. Marriage vows usually say ” In Sickness
and In Health , For Richer or For Poorer , ETC , ETC . UNTIL DEATH DO US PART ” . There is NO
verse in scripture that says ” SHOOT THE WOUNDED ” . It was Roberston who said the Haiti earthquake was judgment from God. A lot of events can be interpeted to be Divine Judgment , but
we Christians should not make arbitrary judgments as if we have God’s private cell pnone number.
Last time I checked , God decides when I physically die , Robertson needs to just SHUT UP!!!!
Yeah, I agree Don.
I just couldn’t believe a man who “says” he’s carrying the Christian torch would say such a thing…and unfortunately, he hasn’t shut up yet.
Don and David,
If Christians did not watch and listen to this proven fool and send them their money he would not be on TV.
dana,
I think Christians are ready to believe the glorious truths given by the Living God.
I think you have Christians mixed up with those who need religion to tell them what to believe.
David,
Sorry, I did not see your comment when I deleted Dana as a spammer. They are quite deceptive. They say something that looks relevant but their real motives are a link back to a website selling a product.
I agree totally with deception being an epidemic in America. people have found a way to suppress guilt that comes with wrong doing and lies. decadence has festered for so long here in this country that the minds of the American people have been darkened by the power of satan.and there eyes have been blinded. they can nolonger see that what they do or say is wrong. there’s a deception in our mail, email, marketing text messages. the scary part is that it’s all being done as though it’s the right thing to do. doing wrong and lieing is automatic now without any accountability or consequences.and when you look around it’s business as usual while society subtly crumbles around us.