What interesting times we live in!
What perilous times as well!
What weird repackaging of sin!
No wonder some believe here is hell.
Heaven is here and so is hell
Depends on what one makes it,
So we had better learn to fit.
Fake news is on the increase
Alternate facts are on the rise,
Some want Biblical truth to cease
While others the sacred Word despise.
Bizarre orientations are a fact of life
Mostly in first world countries,
And legal minds are causing strife
To visit on the local communities.
Take prayer out of the schools
And remove the Bible too
God and education! That’s not cool!
Is becoming the scholastic view.
Christianity is for weaklings
Religion, a placebo and cop out
Their pseudo God in a manner of speaking
Is nothing much to shout about.
He’s just a good feeling like a drug
That always wears off with time
And inevitably becomes a humbug
Is what some intellectuals opined.
There is no God but man himself
There’s no limit to what he can achieve,
The Bible is like any other book on the shelf
Isn’t this what they want us to believe?
Fake news and alternative facts
As true as true can be,
Thousands believe it and say it’s that
That is the new truth they want us to see.
There is no need for verification
And definitely no need to investigate,
Millions propagate its publication
Positing it as true even though it’s fake.
The only truth in an alternative fact
Is the fact that it is always a lie,
The gullible receives it as a juicy scrap
And the demand exceeds the supply.
It spreads with speed like a forest fire
Obscuring the truth in its wake,
Increasing the victims of the Chief Liar
Like leaves swept up by a garden rake.
No resistance to the certain untruth
Like hungry souls they gobble it up,
The millions that believe, their only proof
And upon that lie they excitedly sup.
Deep in the mind a certain doubt
That further recedes under the weight
As the truth gives way to the fake.
Fake news and alternative facts
Are really one and the same,
This two-in-one scourge burns up the track
And the sensational vibe fans the flame.
There’s nothing new under the sun
Not even this current distraction
For as long ago as in the biblical Eden
Fake news became an attraction
Served up by none other than Satan
Our fore parents released their grip
And disregarded the Creator’s instruction
Fake news had done the trick.
Nothing new I must repeat
Regarding alternative facts and fake news,
The more incredible the sweeter the treat
The more ridiculous are the reviews.
It will get worse the Bible says
As the coming of the Lord draws near,
Mankind will be driven by his selfish ways
And men’s hearts will fail them for fear.
Nothing will be too ridiculous to attempt
Nothing too low to conceive,
Man’s depravity will be allowed to vent
On a world that is already deceived.
But all is not lost for the Christian child
In fact nothing really at all
For nothing can God’s sheep defile
That has answered the Shepherd’s call.
No alternative fact or fake news
Can disillusion the Lord’s elect
Who daily God’s Word will choose
And the alternatives and fakes reject.
Stewart Russell © November 2017
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