Is lying a defect in politics?

It is an election year.   Lies, white lies, dishonesties are flowing along with the cash flow.  We even have a fact check group out there checking every speech.  And, yet, it doesn't appear that anyone really knows or cares if a statement is twisted to convey another meaning!

I remember the campaign of Al Gore and his supposed statement that he invented the internet.  Soon he was a prevaricator or mixed up in his facts.  Now we have an incident of Paul Ryan and his marathon time  --was he a prevaricator or mixed up in his facts?   Today we make the same judgement of Ryan that we made of Al Gore.  Party people will toe the line as they did with Gore and they will again with Ryan.  So fact checkers, go get a drink somewhere and quit wasting your time.  No one really cares about lies.   Party people justify anything for the sake of winning!  No difference which party you are in!  None!

 

But does it matter to some people, some people who are partisan but call themselves Christian!  I hope and pray that it does!   I hope that we examine the pattern of lies for every candidate who falls into the trap of lying to win votes and I hope that we ask ourselves whether lying matters to us in the short run and the long run.  Every one of the 4 top candidates call themselves religious and I think that they all are by their life styles and their history.

 

But can they escape the pitfall of lies and deception.  Someone said of one well known politician, "He does not lie for an advantage; he lies because it is part of his character."    The voters need to examine that statement by every candidate  --no matter what office the candidate seeks.

 

 

James 3:8 says:  "But no human being can tame the tongue;  it is a restless evil full of deadly poison."

 

But we need to listen to the words of every politician and we need to train our own tongues to seek for truth first.