My Dad is visiting with me until tomorrow. This weekend has been interesting and frustrating at the same time.
He likes Fox News. We are both on the same side of most issues, except when I question if Fox is sincere in their messaging.
My Dad gets real defensive. If we can't trust the news (whether this one or that one) who can we trust? We have to believe something....
Understand, my father is 86. He's been around a lot longer than me. He's seen more. He knows more.
And here I am, the youngest of 3 trying to explain that fake news lives on both sides of the aisle.
There is a story in the news right now about a woman who went missing and her boyfriend is being implicated in the case.
There are so many holes in the story I couldn't catch a dragon flying through it.
So I question things. And he asks me why am I questioning. So I point out the holes that I see that he doesn't see.
The guy fills a backpack. Takes a car and leaves it at a motel or something and goes off in the woods.
His parents come by and takes the car and brings it back to their house.
Why did they leave him stranded? Did they know he wasn't coming back?
They say they found a body of a woman. They cant identify it. They don't know the cause of death. But all fingers are pointing to this man.
There was a rally on Saturday for the people being held in a DC jail. People were told not to show up because it was a trap.
3 people got up to speak. I said.. I think they are working for the other side.
My dad got flustered. Why don't you think they are their for the prisoners?
I said dad.. everytime you see any group of Trump supporters or prayer groups meeting in public, and they are surrounded by antifa...
There is always confrontation and attacks. These people at the podium, are getting no flack, no pushback whatsoever..
Just seems odd to me. I seen enough action last year to know how these things usually turn out.
"So, you don't think they should be there defending these people in jail? "
I didn't say that. I said I don't trust these people who pulled this rally together for the "cause" of those incarcerated...
KNOWING that those that would show up, would be surrounded by opposition groups.
It's a set up. 2000 people showed up, and only about 200 were there legimately for the cause. The rest were FBI agents, so called Press, police, antifa, and BLM... think about it..
"Hmm.. "
So he thought about it. And started asking questions himself.. lol
We were brought up to trust people in authority. The police, the doctor, the teacher, the priest or pastor, the justice system, etc..
But all those things have been coopted. They been infiltrated by an enemy while we were sleeping.
It's hard to become skeptical when your instinct is to trust.
Some people are the other way around. They trust no one. And that can be hurtful as well.
We watched Dr. Jeramiah the last couple days. He was preaching about the way the world has changed and we have to be on guard.
Don't follow the world down the wrong path, keep yourself seperate and follow Jesus.
My dad has never been a religious man. But I believe he has always believed in God.
But believing and having a relationship are two different things.
I'm a better writer than I am an orator. I can't find the words to speak to say what I mean. And he ends up twisting what I say and I get frustrated and try again.. and again.. eventually we find a middle ground.. lol
Patience...
It's really not fair the games the media are playing with people's minds. Making them doubt, making them fear.
Twisting things upside down until people like my dad have a hard time seeing truth from lies.
We all are facing this right now.
I believe we are living in the days of the great deception and God is testing us to see if we are faithful to Him and trusting Him, with our very lives in these days.
I tell my dad, Just trust God. No matter what you hear or what you see or how you feel persuaded to lean.. Trust God.
Just because it's Fox news doesn't make it true. Just because it's MSNBC or some other channel you been watching all your life, doesn't mean they are telling the truth now.
6 Corporations own all the media outlets on tv. They all have the same coin. This on shows this side and that one shows that side..
But it's still Ceasars coin no matter how you look at it.
Now that I think about it..
It's been a pretty good weekend after all
Hugs
