Individual lies form a system of lies when an accumulation of those lies dominates a given society. Once a specific lie is institutionalized, when it becomes the basis for policy decisions, for legislation and law enforcement, it advances the formation of a system of lies. The more lies are being elevated in this way the closer we get to a system where lies dominate. If this continues the next and final phase leads to a society, where lies rule, and that means godless totalitarian rule. Nazi and Communist societies, both socialists, were and are such societies. Lies are being enforced with the power of government and opposition becomes a criminal act. There is no free speech and no right to bear arms. Totalitarian societies are the result of lies and not of economic deprivation. The liar, however, and that title includes just about everybody, is concerned with him- or herself and doesn't notice the gradual transformation of the society he lives in from freedom to slavery. He doesn't do anything to reverse the trend.

For Christians: according to St. John, chapter 8, verses 44/5 Jesus defined before a Jewish audience, who were eager to kill him, the founder and father of the lie: "Your father is the devil, and what you are wanting to do is what your father longs to do. He always was a murderer, and has never dealt with the truth, since the truth will have nothing to do with him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, for he is a liar and the father of lies." Jesus makes no difference between a small and a big lie, because any lie is an insult to God. Those "Christians" who think that their small lies don't matter, better think again, and especially if they furthermore apply their philosophy to the democratic process and vote known liars into public office. They will have no part in the kingdom of God because they are engaged in preparing the rule of their father, the father of all lies.

German philosopher Karl Jaspers defined: "One may lie by language by deliberately asserting something which is false. It means lying to others but not to oneself, one is misusing language. But a further step is also possible, by lying the lie may reach a stage in which a person finally believes his own lies so that the distinction between truth and falsehood is lost… Untruth may range from the lie which is immediately recognizable as such to a total, inextricable system of lies…Truth and fiction are combined in such a way that nothing good arises, but the radical lie itself becomes reality."

In his1996 published book Death of Reality, author Lawrence Dawson described the "systematic denial of reality" as a combination of moral decadence and cultural anarchy. "The very idea of reality has become 'untenable' in our current society. People have begun to live in pink-clouds and fantasies, a state, which they neither recognize nor can associate with any reason or cause." He points out that the mainstream "media were censoring facts to establish 'an alternative perception of reality', which favored an ideological clientele", using their monopoly to distort reality, ending up in truth being nonexistent. "A corrupt political ideology has been melded to an equally corrupt philosophy of language to give an historically unprecedented power to the lie."

I have a chapter "Lies" in my book Moral Meltdown for those interested in the whole dimension of the theme. For the purpose of this article I add a few national and international lies to underline my statement of a system of lies:

- German Bundestag (Parliament) by request from the opposition formed a "Lie-Committee" to investigate the fraudulent argumentation of the government parties in the September 2002 elections. Chancellor Schroeder, who also activated anti-American resentment to get the necessary votes for re-election, as well as finance minister Eichel, are both accused of having lied to the population regarding the desperate financial situation of Germany. The truth could have spoiled their bid for power. Immediately after election victory the grisly picture emerged. Five weeks before election date, for instance, Schroeder had promised "we do not have the intention to raise taxes. I speak for the government and my [socialist] party." Taxes, however, were substantially raised right after he had been safely installed in office. There are seven more documented cases of similar lies to the population.

- The whole of South Africa was shaken right after Thabo Mbeki was installed as president, when the entire press of the country condemned his silence with regards to the "lie scandal". The prime minister of the Mpumalanga province, Ndaweni Mahlangu, had re-appointed a man as finance minister in spite of his admittance to the press that this man had lied publicly. Political lies, said Mahlangu, are "not really serious, they are accepted worldwide and quite common". After all, he argued, a lie had not been the end of Bill Clinton. Mahlangu followed the argument of an American schoolboy who, when caught lying, defended himself, "when the president is allowed to lie what is the fuss about my lie?"

- It doesn't reach the level of impeachment! Really? If the first law enforcement officer of the nation breaks the law and lies to the nation? Dan Rather adding to the confusion said to Bill O'Reilly on Fox News May 15, 01 that he considered President Clinton to be an honest person, "…I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things." Is that the policy of political news casting by CBS? Who would continue looking at it?

- Lying for Votes. The Middle American News reported that Senator John McCain by own admission is a liar: "I feared that if I answered honestly, I could not win the South Carolina primary." So he answered a question with a lie and lost the primary anyway. Everybody knows that he is not the only such liar. Political deception is the principal pillar of the system of lies in the world.

- The lie is at the heart of the abortion movement. That a woman has a right to her body is the first lie. Neither has a man.. The body of any person is a temple of the Holy Spirit. The fetus is not part of the women's body. From conception, when life begins, the fetus has a separate life. It is a lie that life begins at birth only. No Supreme Court or any court has the right to take the place of God, to alter the constitution and dispose of human life without due process. Bernard Nathanson, one of the principal architects and strategists of the abortion movement in the United States told the Whistleblowers Magazine in December 2002, how he, Lawrence Lader and Betty Friedan cynically invented emotionally compelling slogans, like "Women must have control over their own bodies", "freedom of choice - a basic American right" and others and fabricated the results of fictional polls to convince the media and the population of the need to legal abortion. This way they proclaimed at the end of the sixties, that 60% of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion, and that every year 1 million illegal abortions took place. In reality it were close to 100.000. They said, that every year 10.000 women were dying from illegal abortions while the correct figure was 200-250. "Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public," Nathahan stated, who himself had performed 5000 abortion with his own hands but then changed profoundly. According to a story by Tom Neven in the January 2003 edition of Focus on the Family with Dr. James Dobson Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade, and Sandra Cano, the Mary Doe of Doe v. Bolton, are now trying to take their cases back to the Supreme Court to have the ruling reversed. The two women also changed profoundly, became pro-life and realized, that they had been tools of clever lawyers and that the Supreme Court was lied to.

- Separation of Church and state. It is an impertinent lie. There is no such provision in the Constitution. It is a pretense to hide what in reality is a Nazi programme, to separate God and society and get God's uncomfortable commandments out of the way. I experienced that campaign in Nazi Germany and I know what I see in America now. The oath of office contained in the original Constitution of Pennsylvania stated, "each member [of the legislature], before he takes his seat, shall make…the following declaration…'I do believe in one God, the Creator and Governour of the Universe, the Rewarder of the good and the Punisher of the wicked, and I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration.'- " President Thomas Jefferson asked Congress to ratify a treaty with the Kaskaskia Indians on December 3, 1803. In this request he stated "Whereas the greater part of said tribe have been baptized…into the Catholic Church, to which they are much attached, the United States will give annually, for seven years, one hundred dollars toward the support of the priest…who will… perform the duties of his office, and instruct as many…children as possible. The United States will further give the sum of three hundred dollars to assist…in the erection of a church." - James Madison, chief architect of the Constitution & 4th President of the US explained: "We have staked the whole future of American civilization not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self government, on the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, and to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." These are the same commandments, which the enemies of a free America attempt to eliminate in schools and all public areas.

- John Witherspoon stated: "A republic must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty…whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy of his country." That is also my position.

There is a myriad of other examples. Some of them I might bring in my next article. One lie leads to another and slowly law becomes an instrument of suppression. Most likely every reader can compose easily another list from what he knows. The issue, it turns out, is not whether we are living in a system of lies, as I point out, but rather what to do about it. How to transform this nation so that it complies with her reason of existence and fulfills her mission, to be a nation built on truth and with it a champion of freedom in the world.

Truth should be the battle cry of all Christians. Where are they? Why are there only so few who put their existence on the line and fight? Why is there silence from the pulpits of all denominations? Never in my life as here in America have I met so many people who privately and publicly tell you that they love Jesus. But when I look at the country on the brink of the abyss of institutionalized godlessness, I ask myself, how they do it. Loving Jesus means doing the will of his father, walking in his footsteps means being a messenger of truth like Jesus. Since the country is ideologically closer to Nazi Germany (which I know both from experience) than to the Founding Fathers, then there must be something wrong with the Christians as was, and unfortunately still is, the case in Germany. Could it be that it is because of the small lies of millions of churchgoers and their lack of willingness to sacrifice and fight so that the nation is built on truth? I challenge any reader to prove that doing this is not constitutional.

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