To Tell the Truth

When we are young we are taught to tell the truth. We are taught that because, not only is it not good for us, it is not good for society as a whole to tell lies. A stable society - especially one like ours, in which there is so much specialization - requires a great deal of trust. Our very currency is based on faith - which is a special level of trust.

All lies are harmful. They may not seem to be at first, but even when lying for a "good" reason - like keeping a surprise party secret - the person who was lied to now knows that everyone at that party lied to them and therefore could lie to them about something else. Lies are harmful because they impair the individual's ability to trust the liar in the future even if they do no immediate or obvious harm. They also make one who has been lied to more reluctant to trust others.

Those who choose to identify as transgender - no matter how sincere their emotional angst/mental illness - are liars. They are lying by presenting themselves as other than what they are.

There have been articles and videos coming out in the last few years in which so called transgenders bemoan the fact that normal, heterosexual people do not want to date them. Obvious problems aside, who would want to date a liar? When there is limited time to find a spouse and start a family, who can afford to waste time dating someone who is lying about whether or not they are able to produce children with you? Liars waste the most precious resource anyone has on this Earth - one's time.

And this is just one reason that the lie of transgender-ism is a  problem for society as a whole.

Here is the bigger problem with transgender-ism. They are not only telling a lie with their appearance and mannerisms, but that 0.3% of Americans are asking the rest of us to allow them to tell that lie without refuting it.

That makes the rest of us into liars too. 

As an individual, one may choose to lie from sunrise to sunrise and that is on them. But that liar does NOT have the right to compel anyone else to become a liar by joining them in their lie. And that is the truth that no one seems to be telling around this issue. You are NOT required to become a liar to support someone else's wishes.

"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: " ~ Gen 3:4

Trust isn't everything, it's the Only thing.

I have been rather forcibly reminded of the value of trust over the last few days. I have posted on this in a few other spots, but having had it reinforced recently, I felt perhaps this would be a good time to examine it

When you cannot trust someone, it becomes impossible to have a relationship of any sort with them. Could you trust a boss who only keeps their promise to pay you for your work occasionally? How about a leader who says they will support you if you have any difficulties and then refuses to do so when it counts? How many such occurrences need take place before someone is deemed untrustworthy? How many lies does one have to tell before one is considered to be a liar?"

One of the reasons I am posting on this today is that I saw Ingrid Mattson's appearance at the DNC on CNN or C-span(whichever one it is that I get). She was lecturing the DNC and America on the value of telling the truth. The value of being trustworthy. I found this to be particularly interesting because Ms. Mattson happens to be the current head of the Islamic Society of North America.

Ms. Mattson is a convert to Islam from Catholicism and she seems to spend a great deal of time trying to convince us that the real Islam is a loving, and kind religion being exploited by those who do not hold to it's "true" teachings. Ms. Mattson is asking me to believe that a woman who grew up in a Catholic home in Canada knows the "true" teachings better than those who grew up studying the Koran daily under the instruction of Islamic holy men (Otherwise known as those irresponsible terrorists who have hijacked the "true" religion for their own purposes) A book which is illegal under it's own laws to translate into another language because that might cause confusion among it's adherents. (Thus, every convert is expected to learn Arabic.)Perhaps she missed the bits about taqiyya. This is the practice of lying to protect yourself or advance your goals.

So, here we have this well spoken, Canadian woman who has converted to a religion which allows lying under a number of circumstances (there are more lies allowed than just under taqiyya) lecturing Americans about the importance of telling the truth at a major political party's convention. Every terrorist who has access to a television set that showed it must be laughing themselves silly just thinking about how stupid we are.

For the record, if someone believes that lying is acceptable to advance their cause, they are not trustworthy in any area of their life. Because you and I have no way of knowing what their cause is, we have no way to tell what they may lie about and therefore can trust them in nothing. Is there anyone who believes otherwise?

"16These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. " ~Prov 6: 16-19