Deceit
Deceit is the deliberate distortion or denial of the truth with an intent to trick or fool another.[1] See also Self-deception.
Christianity and Judaism teach that deceit is morally wrong,[2] but public schools do not.
Deceit helps promote various belief systems with the public, as illustrated by the examples below. Nearly all of these examples consist of deceit that was embraced by many people in order to advance an ideological goal. Most prominent modern examples are of liberals hoping to mislead the public through propaganda.
Embraced deceit is deceit that is knowingly allowed, defended or even promoted for ideological purposes. Not only did the perpetrators of the deceit promote it, but their allies were complicit also. Embraced deceit is common.
Deceit is something commonly practiced by hypocritical so-called "Christians" who preach that God loves everyone, but also spread hate speech about the LGBTQA community, Islam (among other religions), "inferior" races, environmentalists, atheists, and liberals.
Quotes
George Orwell wrote:
- All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.[3]
- "Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for. Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet regime, or any other regime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore." [2]
Biblical References
Psalm 119:118
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
Psalm 5:6
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Proverbs 26:24
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him
Job 27:4
My lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit.
Further reading
- People of Deceit, by Michael Reagan, Human Events, 10/05/2007.
- People of the Lie, by psychiatrist M. Scott Peck
See Also
- Abortion deceit
- Flattery
- Fraud
- Examples of liberal deceit from previous "Breaking News" articles
- Intellectual dishonesty
- Michael Reagan, People of Deceit
- Politically Correct Terrorism The Conservative Voice, August 21, 2007
References
- ↑ In law, deceit is the fraudulent representation of a material fact, made intentionally or recklessly or without reasonable basis and with the intent to induce reliance on the falsehood. In tort law, if someone does justifiably rely on the deceit to his detriment, then he has a cause of action for recovery of his injury.
- ↑ For example, the Old Testament says, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."[1]
- ↑ George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946