Saturday, January 08, 2005

What is the Truth?

Truth is conformity of the mind with reality. If the mind fails to come into conformity with reality, then one's mind is lost in fantasy. This page is devoted to the examination of popular culture, politics, education, religion and everyday life under the lens of the truth. One of the greatest failures of western civilization has been the intense promotion of the idea that each individual decides for one's self what is true.

What is the truth and where does it come from? The truth is not a something. It is not solely a philosophical premise. The Truth is a somebody. His name is Jesus Christ. Jesus said, "I am the way, the Truth, and the life." (Jn 14:6). So, God is truth itself. Since God is immutable, the truth is immutable, unchangeable. That which is perfect admits of no change.

The psycho-babble slogan, "I'm ok, you're ok" is destroying the very fabric of society. Why? Because such a view is an attack on the integrity of each individual. Freedom is not doing whatever "I" want to do. Freedom is a duty to do what is right in light of the truth. Freedom, properly exercised, gives rise to justice. Doing whatever "I" want to do outside the realm of the truth is License. Over the last 40-50 years, such a view has caused a disintegration of society. The evidence for such a disintegration is overwhelming. From abortion to euthanasia to suicide to violence to poverty and all points in between, we continue to 'slouch toward Gomorrah' as Robert Bork writes. As history has shown time and again, a society that does not order itself to a proper morality soon finds itself in totalitarianism.