Monday; May 14
Recently, I was reading about the 1824 United States presidential election in biography of a Henry Clay written by David and Jeanne Heidler . As the Heidler s analyzed the politics of the day they made an interesting comment about the shenanigans of Thurlow Weed, a politician from New York. According to the Heidler s “Weed intuitively knew that in politics the audacious lie is always the best one.”. As I read this statement I couldn’t help but wonder if it had been written about modern politics, but I got to thinking about how far-reaching this statement can be in every aspects of our lives – especially spiritually. When it comes to the disagreement between God-fearers and those who don’t believe in God, the debate is not waged by arguing the finer points of things like religion and science. There is such a large gap between the two camps that one side or the other is telling an audacious lie. Sure, we might be able ...