Joseph Goebbels was Hitler’s Propaganda Minister. Ruthless and empowered by the Nazi regime, he systematically destroyed free speech and anything and anyone who deviated from what the Nazi’s considered “un-German.” Anti-Semitism fell into that category. He was devastatingly successful at deceiving millions of Germans, using one sentence: “Repeat a lie often enough and the people will believe it.”
This is true of the majority of today’s media, which repeats assumptions, opinions and lies almost every ten minutes during a news broadcast. Do you catch it? Are you sufficiently appalled by it to you pick up the phone t contact your representatives, or use social media to oppose it? Every phone call is recorded.
Too many American’s have forgotten the history of and the principles on which this land was founded. Most schools and universities no longer teach the truth about our nation, leaving young people with a mishmash of ignorance topped with a philosophy of socialism.
Who is at fault?
First, parents who either ignorant themselves or indifferent, no longer teach their children at a young age about our God and His Word, about our Constitution, about our rights as Americans under the Constitution.
Second, the Church, which no longer teaches about our responsibilities as citizens, nor biblical Truth as an absolute. As well, corporate, intense prayer for those in authority has almost disappeared from the church’s programs.
We reap what we sow.
Goebbels was lauded by most Germans, the Lutheran Church included, as Minister of public enlightenment.
Thank God, there were exceptions, Dietrich Bonhoeffer included.
During the last days of April 1945, as the Soviet troops were on the threshold of Berlin, he and his wife fatally poisoned their six children and took their own lives.
These November elections will decide the future of our nation. Will you make an effort to make time to pray, to vigorously oppose falsehoods, to offer your time and talents by working in your precincts and by helping in every way you can?
I trust that your answer will be a resounding yes.
Prayerfully, Bettina King