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Religion, politics and entertainment often get together and find what is popular, mingle it with a lie, and then set out promoting the fad for the masses. After all it’s the easiest way to get along in the short-term.
Unfortunately, it wreaks havoc on the emotions and soul of the human race while declaring a truce with an existing deception.
It is a populie.
Even though we tout that we are a Christian nation, we tend to receive our marching orders from other nations and their philosophies.
- From the Jews and Arabs, we cling to “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”
- From Buddhism, we believe that we have the power to enlighten ourselves.
- And from the Hindu we have an inordinate worship of animals.
Case in point: we tend to prefer to deny having problems and defend our actions in covering them up.
Religion likes this because it makes human beings appear weak, and therefore God seems stronger.
Politics favors the idea because if you can survive a 72-hour news cycle about one of your failings, maybe it will go away.
And entertainment builds whole storylines around characters who either cheat or fudge on the truth, or defend themselves from dealing with difficulty.
Here’s the populie:
1. Deny. “I do not allow myself to make mistakes.”
2. Defend. “Therefore I will not tolerate critique from you or anyone else.”
This populie creates a climate of lies, leading to an ongoing sense of mutual mistrust.
Since we don’t admit our fallacies, insist there’s no problem and refuse to be inputted by others, a complicated web of deceit is constructed and maintained by our spider sense.
It would be comical if it weren’t so dangerous.
And you can certainly judge your spirituality not on whether you attend church, but by whether you’re willing to deal with your problems without shame or falsehoods.
Honestly, this is what works in the human family:
A. Confess. “I will tell you myself where I’ve made mistakes.”
Confessing your faults one to another is the only way to set inner healing in motion. It is also the only way to prevent people from piling on.
B. Expand. “After I confess, I will tell you what I have learned through my mistakes and how I plan on improving my situation.”
If you want to be the victor instead of the victim, you have to be prepared to admit what is becoming obvious to all. If you get ahead of it, you’re leading the way instead of being drug with a rope by the mob.
Yet I will admit, this is probably one of the more difficult things for people to overcome. But if you don’t confess, be prepared to be confronted.
In the long run (which is often a shorter sprint than you might think) people do find out–and when they do, and they sense that you have tried to escape reality–the punishment will be more cruel.
Deny and defend–a national pastime. But it is time to put it in the past.
In closing let me give you one idea on how to welcome this into your life: start very small.
If you left something on a table and someone had to move it, step over, apologize, and move it yourself. It’s only by practicing this kind of candor that you will gain the muscle to lift your own weights instead of having them dropped on your head.
“Deny and defend” may be one of the most popular of the populie–and may I add … one of the more devastating.
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