It is so hard to write this, because just like you, I am a product of this culture which I have seen with eyes quite wide open now for many years. And now I want to nibble around the edges of the problem this culture has with truth ...
Our governments, worldwide, provide us with a wide variety of distractions at anytime truth is needed. What corruption is found - find a travesty somewhere in the world and direct all attention to this instead. Eventually, people will forget. This has been true for millennia. Think of the prophets of Old Testament, pointing to the sin of Assyria or Babylon or the Scythians, before being able to get the Jewish Nation to understand their own sin in the end! Yeah, we are corrupt but "THEY" are always more corrupt than we are! Sound familiar? Think of the worldwide financial disaster, where corruption was worldwide, hidden quietly in a pyramid scheme of unbelievable proportions. All it took was Iceland being unable to make payment to the Bank of England, and the entire house of cards fell. Anyone in Iceland get prision time? Bank of England? Bank America? Disneyland, whom was also involved in this mess. No, just a few minor players got to pay the price ...
In my company, weasel words rule still to this day. Everything has to be spun, truth may never be spoken. Because if the unvarnished truth were actually spoken, responsible parties would have to be dealt with. So much easier to never deal with the 3,000 pound elephant in the room! And this to the point of absurdity.
In my church there has been a not so quiet undertone of discontent at the direction of our Body for several years now. Nothing anyone can point at, but so prevalent that one is left to assume there is fire just based on the sheer amount of smoke in the air. But no one is willing to say the obvious much less what appears to a problem that just can not be quantified. Any discussion is impossible as I have seen it avoided time and time again by those with power, whom willingly wield it over the powerless. But, hey, memberships grow and fall, cyclically, right? Never address the problem, never actually tell the whole truth - only versions of the truth. One is just as good as another, right? Especially when you think no one is going to actually talk. But, what if just one did quietly contradict you ... ?
To make matters less political, however inexcusably worse, there is no prayer ministry any longer in this Church! Talk about things not said! We do not ever share our prayer concerns or needs with one another any longer - Pastor's decision. That also means there can be no testimonies concerning answered prayer, etc. Worship is singing only ... nothing else. Welcome to the false church of American theology aka the Western Church aka the Whore of Babylon.
In families, hey we all have our secrets! Right? A 3,000 pound elephant erupted in my living room one day. I had no response because I had no clue what the elephant was. Oh sure I knew it was there but no idea why and those whom should have spoke, never did. Today, five years later I am still at more than a loss at why if the elephant is now 5,000 pounds and even though I now understand the elephant, I am still not allowed to discuss this. But, then again, I am a guest in this house at present ...
I suppose that the entire point here to call you out of the culture of deceit and lies we in. We use weasel words so as to not be liars, as if being deceitful is any different than being a liar! We make excuses to justify ourselves, but in the end, a lie is a lie. And, as such, is sin and needs to be repented of.
Yeah, beauty of a culture, eh?
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