When it it acceptable to promote something with a lie? This is something that has been irking me for a VERY long time. We witness it virtually every day, in some benign form or another. Most of us are aware of it. Ads of all types are questionable about what you actually get when you unwrap it like a giddy kid at Christmas. That is where we see it most. Most of it is harmless...most of us know the saying caveat emtor....buyer beware! But I have to draw the line when it comes to those that purport to hold certain values, break those values to justify their position. In this particular case, religion, or to be specific, Christianity. Sure, crap in the ME is glowing hot at the moment, but that is ALWAYS the case...this...this is more insidious and it bugged me enough to point it out. There is a video out there, that shows a group of students and a teacher, and a challenge made by the student to the teacher in respect to that teachers equating evil to God because God was responsible for making everything, including evil. And an argument from young lad about it all. Interesting stuff from a physics point of view, but wholly inaccurate in its depiction of ever having taken place at all in the time it was supposed to have been, nor was the young lad, as the video tries to pass off as, was Albert Einstein. No truth to the video itself. Maybe the setting and the costumes? Either way, fails the snopes and urban legends tests...and of course, I already knew that from being an intense Einstein fan most of my life. The video by itself was meh in the message...it was obviously a promotion of religion...and made no qualms with that at the end...but I DID have a problem with the lie it conveyed in that light. Thou Shalt Not Lie. Thats an OT expression...pending interpretation...Ive seen variations of it...but they all mean much the same thing. There are similar passages in the OT that give further variation to the same theme. Lying is unacceptable behavior. But the New Testaments reinforce this...not in so few words, but the teachings of Christ, he also told his Disciples to hold to the truth. I am certain of three things here. 1. Einstein would be not impressed nor happy about his youth being so maligned as to being the one depicted setting the teacher straight as it were. He was a deeply humble man his entire life, but I suspect in this instance, he would be quit vocal and angry about abusing his memory. 2. That if Christ were observing this, he too would not be impressed with the lie to promote his way of life. Christ was above that kind of deceit...or, that is how the bible relates him to being. 3. Using this video to spread a message that is supposed to be the truth with the anchor of lies is pretty hypocritical. It flies in the face of the messages it contains about being truthful in all aspects of your daily life. I am venting now because I am in one of those kinds of arguments with an individual who doesnt care if it is a lie, to the extent that he chose to change the subject and ask me to prove or disprove the existence of God. Silly man, I did tell him I was Agnostic. And Agnostic for a damned good reason. And he was one of many examples of precisely why I take issue with ANY religion out there...rampant hypocrisy in trying to spread the message...and they wonder why there are so many Atheists around? I am venting here, because I do not want to mess with another friends wall...gotta respect their space...but I did retort with a reasoned response and told him to go back to sleep because he sucked at debate. So no, I will NOT be promoting that video. Despite what it says in the message. It was sent on a carriage of lies that undermine its point. Pity that nut trying to argue existence in a topic about truthfulness was too full of zealotry to see that hypocritical message for what it was.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 01:09:50 +0000
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