Lies, lies, lies --from political ads to scam phone calls about compromised social security numbers..
Truth has become the victim.
Among many people the end justifies the means.
"It's All About Me:" has become the theme song of a disappointingly large segment of the population.
Rioting in the streets, looting, destruction of property are justified by selfishness and the demise of reason.
Opinions are no longer conclusions drawn from a search for what is true and moral. The assumption "I'm entitled to my own opinion" is used to justify prejudice, greed, self-indulgence, hatred.
It is disheartening to be bombarded by mendacious, manipulating, and misleading reports and rumors.
It must have been more than frustrating for Jesus when he explained to the Roman procurator that he had come into the world "to testify to the truth" only to hear Pontius Pilate respond, "What is truth?"
Covid-19 has been a threat for all humanity, but I have come to believe that a culture of lying is an even greater danger.
Whom do you trust?
Jesus' affirmed, "I am the way, the truth and the life."
It is to him that we must turn.
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