An international automobile race was once held in the Soviet Union. With that country being under strict Communist control, the international media was forced to rely upon Pravda to report the race results. Pravda was the mouthpiece newspaper for the Communist party. And so, what were those results? According to Pravda, the American car came in next to last while the Russian-made Moskovich car came in second.
Okay, sounds like a plain case of Communist engineering over American engineering, right? Wrong. The truth is that there were only two cars in the race and the American car beat the Russian car! Do you see how the report from Pravda was literally true and yet oh so misleading? Welcome to the world of biased media and manipulated statistics.
Every time I hear the words, “According to the latest polls, the majority of Americans…” my ear just tunes out. C’mon, it’s not like every American was polled. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pollster for a national organization on the streets of tiny Spruce Pine, North Carolina, where I live. Stop 100 people on the streets of San Francisco, California, and ask your questions. Then fly down to Birmingham, Alabama and ask 100 people there. Do you think the results from both cities will match up evenly?
But, really, even if the poll results are based upon large-scale polling and are unbiasedly reported, what practical difference do they make to the Bible-believing Christian anyway? I mean, is abortion going to suddenly become right in the eyes of God just because 50.1 percent of Americans think it is okay? No. Is God going to change His mind on homosexuality just because a slim majority of Americans don’t agree with what His written word teaches about it? No. Is the approval of capital punishment going to disappear from the pages of both the Old Testament (Genesis 9:6) and the New Testament (Romans 13:1-4) just because the latest poll shows that most Americans disagree with it? No. Do you see what I mean? God is never going to change His truth, standards, and word simply to appease a bunch of rogue Americans. And I don’t need a poll to tell me that.
The Disciple's Road 
Our pastor recently addressed these and some other topics will love and charity, but the bottom line was that we had to “choose the Word or the world.” And he added,” not my rules”
Yep, he got it right.
Yep statistics can be so deceiving. Even Christ showed how actual amount versus percentage needs to be considered when He talked about the widow and the rich men, and we have it told twice.
Well said. One of my dislikes in media reports is “sources say” or “officials speaking on the condition of anonymity” or “those who have knowledge” of the situation… Sorry, but to me it sounds like the reporter / writer is trying to validate the report more than just stating the facts.
Unfortunately, unbiased reporting is pretty much dead (if it ever existed at all).