Truth has been on a Procrustean Bed over the last decade and it will likely disappear completely over the next few years. I have repeatedly written on the topic of truth. I've purposely made axiomatic philosophical states of what is and what it isn't. At times I am waxing poetic but before the end of my articles I always come back to square one of philosophy and epistemology and make absolute truth statements. In the last few years of 'fake news', 'deep fakes' and coming years of deliberate and outright propaganda promulgated by a socialist media...knowing what is truth will become extremely difficult as we plunge deeper into the confusion of a postmodern society. A people bent on ignoring or mocking God. In the disappearance of God from schools, government and society...absolute truth disappeared with Him. WIth the disappearance of the truth the basic ability to discern what is right and what is wrong. Even what were once theologically solid churches abdicated their roll as defenders of the Truth. In reality God never disappeared, man just chose to ignore or deny His presence. Paraphrasing Francis A. Shaeffer from his paper The Common
Man as Mystic...
"What is taught [in government, media and academia] is
that there is no final truth, no meaning, no absolutes, that it is not only
that we have not found truth and meaning, but that they do not exist. The
student and the common man may not be able to analyze it but day after day they
are being battered with this, and we must not be blind to the fact that it is
being accepted increasingly by a majority of society."
In contrast, this way of thinking has not had as much
influence on the middle class. Specifically the middle-class that were not
indoctrinated with academia's reasoning. Many of these keep thinking in the old
way as a memory of the time before the Christian base was lost in the mystic
post-Christian world. However, a majority in the middle class have no real
basis or their values since so many have given up an absolute Christian
viewpoint. They just function on the memory or morality of what once was.
Furthermore, that middle class is looked down upon as the 'uneducated', 4x4
driving, gun toting, banner waving, Walmart shopping Trump supporter.
The division isn't starting in the public community due to
race so much as its starting right within our families and churches because we
haven't taught our kids to reason properly. This isn't so much a social issue
as it is a moral generational one.
This is why so many young people now feel the middle-class
Trump supporter/people are plastic and ugly. Hypocritical. Because they try to
tell others what to do on the basis of their own values. Values that have no
ground in God anymore. They have no base and they have no clear categories for
their choices of right or wrong. They are morally ambiguous. Their choices tend
to hinge solely on what is for their material benefit. One cannot appeal to
one’s own authority and be legitimate. Those that do base their morality and
ethics in a Christian worldview are in a minority and are grouped in with the
rest.
That is why the promise of something different is so appealing
to the youth. A promise of equality or an equaling of the playing field in
socialism is so inviting. The media feeds this lie. The socialist politicians
feed this lie. The actions of the godless middle-class reinforce this lie.
We
need to do better. Through Christian inaction and improper education our children are being brainwashed right within our own homes, churches and families.
Do we want to have only a remnant trace of Christianity left in the collective conscience of society? Do we really only want to have a remnant Christian population? Look what this failure has already wrought on a godless society. In the country of the Blind one-eyed men are kings.
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