I'm sick and tired of being lied to - a call to prayer. Part One.

I'm not claiming to be perfect. I've lied to myself more times than I care to admit, but generally speaking, I try to avoid lying. I've never liked it and when, on the handful of times I have consciously lied, it has been to spare someone else's feelings - usually female.  I dare say it works the other way as well. I hate it and I regret the times when I have felt that it was necessary.  All this is to demonstrate that I find lying inimical to whom I think I am, let alone whom I think God is.

Consequently, deliberate lying really winds me up. Unsurprisingly, I find today's media a source of increasing displeasure. We are being lied to. Sometimes for reasons of policy, sometimes because they want to sell papers and and why let facts get in the way of a good story?

It's August, it's the silly season, but this August there's very little silliness - of the harmless sort - about.

We have been lied to over MH17 and possibly MH370. We have been lied to over the Ukraine. We have been lied to over Assad. In the UK, we are regularly lied to over the UK Independence Party and over the European Union. We are lied to about fracking and climate change. We are lied to about same-sex 'marriage' and the 'protections' afforded to the Church of England - but only the C of E. We have been lied to so many times that it is difficult to decide who is telling the truth.

And most of all, we have been lied to over Israel and Gaza. The reputation of the BBC as a purveyor of accurate reporting is now in tatters, but so strong is the lie that they still haven't understood this.

What follows will be a selection of lies, truths and possibilities, along with a call to prayer. The call? Simply, that God will restore honesty, objectivity and truth to the media and that He will raise up honest and God-fearing politicians and clergy.

Faith moves mountains, so start praying.

 

Police ignorance is something to fear.

The days  when the police understood that they and preachers of the gospel were on the same side are long gone. Today's police detective thinks that a simple explanation of the gospel and sin amounts to a confession of a homophobic crime. He was wrong, but it could all change if the Queen is forced into violating her Coronation Oath and signs same-sex 'marriage' into law.

Christian Concern and its sister organisation, the Christian Legal Centre have been closely involved with defending the U.S. street preacher and former US cop (!) against his persecution  by our excuse for what used to be the best police force in the world.

The downgrading of religious education in schools has led to a blanket ignorance of Christianity and of the Gospel. The sins of Rome have tarred every Church with the same brush and the Press parade their colossal ignorance with every article they write about religion.

Today's Police haven't got a clue. They think that silencing the Gospel is the right thing to do. Jesus warned us this would happen.

The Christian Legal Centre have provided links to a video of the arrest and a transcript of the arresting officer's  interview with Tony Miano. What is painfully evident is the utter ignorance of the detective.

You can read the transcript here.

And here's the video: