Is there any proof in history or in your experiences where fabricated lies can become established as fact and accepted by all as truth if repeated frequently and convincingly enough?
2007-08-11 11:09:21 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The answer to your question is no.
The answer to your details is yes.
Established facts accepted by all does not prove something is true or not.
2007-08-11 11:14:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Define truth.
You can say 2 + 2 = 5 as many times as you want, but that won't make it so.
But there is a cultural knowledge that contains all sorts of junk that isn't true. In the US we believe that George Washington had wooden teeth (he had several pairs of false teeth, none of which were wooden). Some believe that the founders of our nation intended us to be a Christian nation. (Although the founders of many of the colonies were Christian, and persecuted both non-believers and other sects, like Quakers and Baptists, by the time the Constitution was written, most states permitted religious freedom.)
People believe that you might get drugged in a hotel and wake up in a bathtub full of ice with a kidney gone, or that some woman went to Mexico and came back with a little dog that was really a sewer rat, and other nonsense. These are called urban legends, and Snopes is full of them.
2007-08-11 11:18:27 · answer #2 · answered by TychaBrahe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lies can never become truth.
But they can be accepted as truth if told long enough.
Just because one believes a thing does not make it truth.
Deception is a game of lies to shadow over the truth.
Man has a need and if he falls for deception it will take the place of truth. Is it convincing yes, but if he does not investigate. He will never know the truth. So he will be a slave to sin!
2007-08-11 11:20:23 · answer #3 · answered by God is love. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lies will always be lies. Does that mean if people want to tell lies about you that others may accept them as truth. Of course they may. After all look at the lies that were told about Jesus to get Him crucified. They are still lies today.
2007-08-11 11:17:58 · answer #4 · answered by Curtis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The fact the majority of the world today is not Christian proves beyond a doubt that repeating a lie will not cause others to believe it to be true.
2007-08-11 11:18:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all and sundry assumes that's the two Hitler or Goebbels in spite of the undeniable fact that there is no data the two one gave the quote. all of it kinda is going back to the huge Lie laid out in Mein Kampf. yet although Lenin is meant to have reported an identical difficulty and that i'm particular dissimilar human beings think of Bush reported it. there is likewise a matching quote in 1984.
2016-12-11 17:13:53 · answer #6 · answered by mckernan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The perfect example of what you speak of is in the online book "Gospel Enigma."
A lie never becomes truth, but people can and do accept lies as truth.
2007-08-11 11:16:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, no matter how many times you tell a lie it will never become the truth. People might begin to believe in it, but that won't make it a truth.
Pardon the language: Poo will remain poo it no matter how you package it.
2007-08-11 11:14:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no , lies are lies and the Truth is the Truth . the only thing that ever changes in that is man 's blindness to what is true
2007-08-11 11:16:34 · answer #9 · answered by Homer Jones 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Geez, should we start with the gross fairy tale of evil witches? Any witches? Lies about Pagans.
And of course, the lies in the bible!! Many now believe are facts and will kill over them. Yikes!
2007-08-11 11:32:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋