Believing that a lie is the truth;
Believing a lie to receive a benefit.
Why believe a lie? There are two poignant reasons for believing a lie. They are; (1) not being aware or conscious that a lie is not the truth and (2) perceiving 'believing' that a lie will provide some benefit that include a personal benefit. Perceiving or imagining that a lie will produce a benefit does not mean that this will happen. As a matter of fact, it may not only deprive the believer of a benefit but cause him to suffer.
Because at present a certain lie that is daily highlighted in the media, referred to as the BIG LIE, that people believe this feature is presented here to answer the question Why believe a lie? Why do so many people, as revealed by multiple polls, 59 per cent of Republicans believe, without supporting evidence, that Donald Trump won the 2020 election even when Trump's own Justice Department has publicly declared that the election was free and fair. And why with factual evidence only 21 percent of Republicans say 'believe' Joe Biden's victory was legitimate.
So, Republicans believe that believing Trump won the election will benefit them financially, especially if enough Republican politicians are elected to assure them that that they will be supported financial by corporation leaders and more.
Think for a moment about the lie white people in Europe and America believed, propagated and practiced regarding black people They purchased Africans and declared the lie that black people were inferior.They even preached that God ordained black people to be and serve white people just as animals do. Jim Crow was based on this same lie.
In the Bible there is an occasion when a man wanted Jesus to heal his son. He said to Jesus, "Lord, I believe, help my unbelief." Mark 9;24. Jesus helped him with his unbelief and healed his son. But many people who believe lies do not want help with their unbelief or to cease believing lies. What then should people who embrace the truth do when relating to people who willfully and deliberately believe and practice living a lie?
Realize that when a person believing a lie wants to know and embrace the truth he will find someone or something that will be his enabler and help him to cease and desist willffully and deliberately believing and living a lie. In living the truth a person is a light and example for trurh seekers to experience. This is like preaching without words. Many of the greatest and helpful sermons have been preached without words.
To both believers of lies and practitioners of truth know that William Cullen Bryant is right when he says:
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again;
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error wounded writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshipers.
Jesus said,
You shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free.
- John 8:32
Your analysis is quite cogent. People will believe a lie if it benefits them in some way. There is something about a repeated lie, reinforced by those in your network of communication, making the lie become true because those who you communicate with say it's true. People are too lazy to determine the truth on their own. Besides, on the Internet they can find validation for almost any kind of lie.
You mentioned the Republicans and you are right. They are hanging on to an older version of society that benefited wealthy whites over all others. It's hard to stamp out that illogic from people growing fearful of their place in society.
Progressives send me lots of surveys and petitions that bolster the progressive way of doing things. Conservatives (Recessives) do not send me those surveys. As a result, both ends of the spectrum gather from their flocks, information that shows that they are right and that they are in the majority of those people preaching to the choir. Often the actual scientific information underlying the reason for the issue is overlooked. Often no one really knows what the outcome of a particular law or regulation will be when put to practice. Evidenced by the many mandates and irrational responses of the past two years in the ongoing pandemic.
In a post-coup America, an Illinois farm boy is drawn into the resistance by his brother's death. Captured, he is given a choice: betray his friends, or the girl he loves will be lobotomized.
Just as life during the pandemic was color-coded with different hues representing different levels of danger, life in its aftermath has become shaded in similar ways. As a self-styled “Seeker of Beauty with Beauty,” (borrowing from a quote by W.E.B.
Hearts of Gold
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Frank P. Whyte
Portland, Oregon is known as the City of Roses. Of course that’s an odd name for a city whose mere mention conjures images of driving winds and torrential ra
You mentioned the Republicans and you are right. They are hanging on to an older version of society that benefited wealthy whites over all others. It's hard to stamp out that illogic from people growing fearful of their place in society.
Progressives send me lots of surveys and petitions that bolster the progressive way of doing things. Conservatives (Recessives) do not send me those surveys. As a result, both ends of the spectrum gather from their flocks, information that shows that they are right and that they are in the majority of those people preaching to the choir. Often the actual scientific information underlying the reason for the issue is overlooked. Often no one really knows what the outcome of a particular law or regulation will be when put to practice. Evidenced by the many mandates and irrational responses of the past two years in the ongoing pandemic.
Ron