The War on Truth

By this point I assume everyone has to one extent or another become familiar with a recent trend in our modern culture, a trend of insidious nature with far-reaching consequences and truly sinister implications. I am speaking of the theme of subjectivism.  The notion of absolute truth, the very idea that facts are real, is under attack,

This creeping and malevolent philosophy has infiltrated almost every facet of our modern dialogue. We see it in discussion of societal injustice, people speaking of “my truth” as though subjective imagination and fickle opinion had some sort of moral authority, a ready counter to any provided fact, one that implies intrinsic virtue on the part of the claimant. We even perhaps see people consciously and wilfully lying our very faces for the sake of what they see as a greater truth.

We see it in fiction and entertainment, where people insist that what they feed their minds on has nothing whatever to do with who they are as a person, that it's “just a story,” that good guys can adopt the traits and actions of the bad guys and we're somehow expected to just swallow it without question. We are even told that the only “wrong” that one can do is to suggest that something is objectively wrong, that to judge someone else is the only true fault that can be committed. We see absurdities like the name of “hero” being applied to someone for having appeared on stage in their underwear. If hero means nothing more than some pretentious slob dressed like a drunk who forgot his drawers, the word loses all true meaning.

We see it in news, where media outlets couch information in such a way as to cast it in a shroud of ambiguity laced with moral certainty that we the viewer are justified in our preconceived prejudices because we are given key words that tickle our ego without ever examining the facts of the matter. (That's assuming the information we are given is not an outright lie, a not uncommon occurrence in our modern age.) Adolf Hitler, a master of deception on a grand scale, said with great insight “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

 
It's a simple fact of human nature that we are affected by what we expose ourselves to, and if everyone tells you that a certain thing is true, you may very well find yourself believing it to be so. We are told that “silence is violence,” and hence our natural revulsion to genuine violence is dulled. The word “violence”, like the word “rape”, has been used and abused so often where it does not apply that it has become virtually meaningless.

Political correctness is perhaps the most commonly accepted aspect of this soft war on truth. Shame people for saying something and they will come to see the thing itself as shameful. Call something by another name and you shape the mind's perception of it. Call something by another name, we are told, and you can change the very nature of the subject. This madness began with the ostensibly harmless practice of smoothing niceties of language like calling disabled people “special.” It has now culminated in some truly appalling developments. We are now told not only that we must call a psychologically damaged individual by their preferred gender, we are now told that they are in fact that gender. We are even told that children who cannot legally consent to sex can choose to have irreparable physical and mental damage done to them through sex change operations, all in the name of “inclusivity” and “understanding.” And if you don't concur and comply, you are a sexist bigot who is motivated purely by hate.

It doesn't stop there either. Not only are genders of adults subject to whim, not only can children be subject to gender modification, there is absolutely no one who is safe from this form of subjectivity. Swedish churches now worship a “gender neutral” christ, (because Our Father in Heaven is sexist and patriarchal or some such rubbish), a violation of fundamental Christian doctrine that surpasses even the catholic practice of calling priests “father”, and saying long-drawn repetitive prayers in direct contradiction of Christ's instructions. It gets worse and worse. The bloody pope has modified the Lord's Prayer. At first glance the change made may seem innocuous, an exercise in streamlining semantics, but it's the principle that is truly alarming here. If the pope can change one of the most explicit instructions of Christ, to any degree, where does it end? Once this game starts, there is absolutely nothing to prevent the Lord's Prayer from being eventually, gradually, incrementally, entirely rewritten. And if the Lord's Prayer is not sacred, what is?

That is the truly alarming truth about all of this. If the Lord's Prayer can be rewritten, there is nothing to prevent the entire Christian faith, as propagated by the church, from being gutted wholesale and replaced by an unspeakable abomination. And people would accept it. We live in a world where people are so divorced from the idea of objective truth that they rant about a “literal genocide” that is supposedly happening in America, a world where many people are more comfortable with the idea of human sacrifice than the idea of reintroducing Christianity into our modern dialogue. If this insidious notion of subjectivity were allowed to continue unchecked, if people were to continue being lulled into a stupor of moral vacancy, there is quite literally nothing they will object to, no lie they will not swallow, no atrocity they will not be amenable to committing. After all, if “literal violence” means nothing more than a verbal rebuke, then a truly literal murder means nothing.

That is where Trump comes in. In a world that was ready to slide off the brink into a bottomless abyss of horror, suddenly on the world stage is a leader who outright refuses to comply with the soft coercion of political correctness and the slow tyranny of abused language. Even worse, from the enemy's view, this ruthlessly impudent man with his brusque mannerisms and relentless proclivity for politically incorrect speech has had the audacity to not only resist the web of deception that was being woven around us, he had the unpardonable gall to go on the offensive, pun notwithstanding. By adamantly refusing to abandon the use of words like “anchor baby” and “radical islamic terrorism”, and his uncompromising insistence on using the phrase “merry Christmas”, President Trump has perhaps irrevocably changed the game. And having this insufferable and unquenchable upstart be a Christian who has reintroduced Christ into not just the White House but our cultural dialogue as a whole, is perhaps the best part of all.

After just one year in office, President Trump has dealt a potentially lethal blow to the censorship of thought and the absolute depravity of spirit that would assuredly have followed. And were that his only success, even if he had not crippled isis, exposed the duplicity of the democrats and republicans, re-established American sovereignty and enforced our laws, revitalized the economy and restored national pride, that would have been enough. Out of all our President's accomplishments, this one stands supreme.

President Donald Trump has stood before the world as a Christian and an American, and has turned the culture war around, and the world on its head. For the first time in what seems an eternity, the enemy's hell-bent course of destruction has been checked. We are winning.

Thank God for President Trump. May the blessing of the Lord Almighty be with us as we step into the new year. The tide has turned, but the war is not over.