"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8.44). Of all Caligula’s evils, too numerous to count, none are more damaging and damning than his attacks on truth through his consistent and constant lying. His desire to confuse and blur the line between truth and falsehood is clearly working, as evidence by and observation such as the following insane observation of one of his disciples. “‘I bet $500 they are lying,’ he [a Trump supporter] said. ‘I bet it was a liberal who did it. Have you stopped to think why those bombs were only sent to high-level Democrats? They are trying to make it look like Donald Trump is encouraging terrorism….’ “His wife agreed. “‘It seems like a lot’s been planted to make it look like a Trump supporter did it,’ said Carrie Pennington” (Ed Pilkington, “‘I Bet $500 they are lying:’: Trump Fans Skeptical about Pipe Bomb Arrest, theguardian.com). What does one do with such insanity? What response can combat this sort of irrational and delusional attitude. Truth is useless in the face of this sort of willful ignorance. This sort of willful ignorance is simply irresistible. It leaves one with a sense of hopelessness and a belief that America’s “right” is “without principle, and past feeling” (Moroni 9.20). Most discouraging and disturbing is Caligula’s success in blurring the truth among so-called Christians. It is truly brilliantly done. It is its very brilliance that proves that it is giving Caligula too much credit to say that the lying is his “strategy.” He is, obviously, not that smart. He is an ignorant man. No, he is another’s dupe. He is simply an ignorant tool of the cosmos’ most devious and conniving being—Lucifer, the father of lies. Caligula’s lies are not his. They are his father’s. Truly, America is in need of an exorcism. "And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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