Propaganda & Spin

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Dean and I took Saint Chucklins of Ridge out for his birthday party Saturday night. We went to a Orchestra event at my former church, featuring very fine classical music largely made up of members of a well-known classical Orchestra. It was good to listen to guitar (classical guitar) in church that was not yet another version of campfire classics.

This was followed by dinner.

You are welcome, Chuck...

At the dinner a friend significantly older than myself and long time ministry worker made some interesting points which I shall paraphrase...

In the Vancouver area only the political correct view is acceptable, one perspective is permitted, politically and socially. Contrary views will be shunned.

At least in the United States there are two perspectives provided politically and socially, even though the polarization can become tiresome and annoying.

Propaganda is a tool used by the politically correct movement to dull the minds of the masses by flooding them with repetitive information and messages. This allows their perspective to be fed to the masses.

The agenda of the elite is a way I would state it.

I would also state that propaganda is a tool used by the elite to influence the masses into accepting the views of the elite as the only acceptable philosophical views and overall worldview.

This gentleman also stated, wisely, that propaganda is lies and untruths and that the persons behind such know the untruthful nature of the information. He cited Goebbels as example.

By using propaganda the elite are attempting to counter the views of opponents, which is often also propaganda and therefore resort to using propaganda themselves.

He also noted that once one resorts to propaganda is it 'impossible' to not use it anymore.

I take it this is because lies have been built upon lies and if some layers of lies are removed the entire philosophical structure would be in danger of collapse.

Propaganda:

Cited

‘Selected information, true or false, which is promoted with the aim of persuading people to adopt a particular belief, attitude or course of action. During the 20th Century all the major political ideologies have employed propaganda and made use of modern media to reach a mass audience. It has an important role in modern warfare and by WWII separate bureaus and ministries were established to promote morale and subvert the enemy. The Nazi Ministry of Propaganda, headed by Goebbels was one of the most effective. In the West there has been an increase in professional propagandists such as people in public relations and advertising.’ Concord (1982: 995).

THE CONCORD DESK ENCYCLOPEDIA (1982) New York, Concord Reference Books, Inc, Time.

The Time encyclopedia documents propaganda as selected information true or false. But, my older friend in ministry raises some reasonable philosophical points. I see truth from propaganda as questionable at best. There is the philosophical saying that a half truth is no truth at all, and as propaganda would exaggerate by nature even factual truths, these facts when exaggerated for political and social purposes soon become untruths. 

A Scriptural, Biblical, Christian alternative to propaganda or propaganda of any kind is a reasonable, rational, prayerful use of truth.

Jesus Christ calls himself the way, truth and life and only way to the Father in John 14: 6, and certainly God's followers, need to walk in spiritual and intellectual truth.

Not by intellectual spin for the sake of Christianity but through reasonable, rational use of Scripture, Theology, Philosophy of Religion and related disciplines.

Followers need to be willing to admit the failures of Christians and cultural Christianity, while proclaiming the Gospel and Scriptural message supernaturally revealed from God.

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