A friend of mine and I have had an on-again, off-again conversation over the years about what we like to call The Three Big Lies™. Various combinations of these three lies form the foundation of almost every evil, from abortion and transgender ideology to more mundane evils like divorce and envy. It is worth spending the time to dive deeply into the issues of the day to assess how these three lies may be present in the culture's more prevalent ideas about them.

It is a common strategy for tyrants to use decency as a weapon against their opponents and against the people over which they rule. Tyrants rule by fear, including the fear decent people have of offending God, of being ashamed before their neighbors, or of simply not living up to their own sense of self respect, morality, and proper behavior. The decent man's unwillingness to stoop to his oppressor's level or to employ tactics and strategies he views as "beneath him," becomes his Achille's heel. The tyrant, unbound by any sense of scrupulosity, morality, or common decency, has an advantage over the decent man that can only be defeated by God.