Opus 2024-233: Living Confident

As I think about the lack of real honest news, I keep asking myself what can I believe.  Where can I find the information that I need in order to make decisions?  It presents a genuine quandary.  When we look at the media that supplies our information, the news, we find that it is totally corrupted and totally unreliable.  I often joke about how I used to decide how to vote.  I would take the recommendations of the California Teachers’ Association and vote just the opposite.  That worked well on ballot initiatives, but didn’t help much with the primaries or judges.  I can’t do that with the news because you can’t believe either side.

As I read different things I find at one of the goals of the cultural Marxist is to destroy confidence in the process of our culture.  To destroy our trust in the government, to make us not believe anything we read, to be willing to throw our neighbors under the bus because of our doubt.  The idea is to create chaos because we cannot trust anything.

We seem to be making progress on that or, I guess I should say, they are making progress on that.  There is very little I trust that I read or see.  Photo shopping has gotten so sophisticated and the art projects of the AI world are so well defined that we don’t know what to believe.  We can’t believe our ears.  We can’t believe our eyes.  Where do we turn?

If you’ve been reading what I write long enough, you probably know where I’m going with this, I’m going towards the word of God.  The Bible does not give us headlines to decide who to vote for.  He does not clarify whether Islam is a religion of peace, or whether the pope is a communist or a catholic.  What it does do is give us principles based on unchanging truth, which can help us come to decisions on which way to turn.  That is vital.  If we don’t have a solid foundation based on truth, then we will never be able to make good decisions.

So you may not be a believer, you may reject the idea of Almighty God.  You may think Jesus is a joke.  I would still suggest that if you’re looking for principles to live by, you can find them in the Bible.  That would be a good place to start.  It would be better than reading books on philosophy or science.  It will be better than consulting the platforms of the two political parties that seem to be running things.

Give it a try.

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