Why won't they listen?

It is interesting that when we try to speak the truth to people they simply refuse to listen. I would challenge you to go to your place of employment and ask someone what they think about about Global Warming or about the Obama birth issue. Once they have shared the party line with you, speak the truth to them. You will immediately be categorized as a loony tune! If you try to speak about your faith in Christ you will receive even more ridicule. Why is that?

I was recently reading "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer. It is an interesting book that takes the reader to the heart of Hitler's regime. I would like to offer a quote from Mr. Shirer's book to possibly answer why people stare with incredulity when we try to speak the truth.

"No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime's calculated and incessant propaganda. Often in a German home or office or sometimes in a casual conversation with a stranger in a restaurant, a beer hall, a cafe, I would meet with the most outlandish assertions from seemingly educated and intelligent persons. It was obvious that they were parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers. Sometimes one was tempted to say as much, but on such occasions one was met with such a stare of incredulity, such a shock of silence, as if one had blasphemed the Almighty, that one realized how useless it was even to try to make contact with a mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what Hitler and Goebbels, with their cynical disregard for truth, said they were." (page 248, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer) Emphasis mine.

The next time you speak the truth and see the blank looks on the faces of those to whom you are talking, remember...they have been indoctrinated in the totalitarianism of the current news media. The news is no longer news. It is the propaganda put forth to sway public opinion in favor of those who wish to steal our freedoms for their power gain.