What Is
Truth?
(Don't Change The
Map)
Guy Adams
Certain
Truths should remain constant, but in modern day
America, Truth is now being questioned on a number
of fronts.
Someone
emailed me recently, saying, "There is no such
thing as 'the truth' the moment you make one
possibility the only truth, [so] that no other
possibilities can exist." To that I'd reply
that "truths" only have one side. That's what
makes them "Truths." For example, take
homosexuality and homosexual marriage. There is
only one correct viewpoint here. Homosexuality
will never be "mainstream." If you don't believe
that homosexuality is wrong simply because God
says it's wrong, just take a look at Nature. You
will never see two male Grizzly bears attempt to
have sex with each other. And when was the last
time you saw two male lions at the zoo attempt to
have sex? Truth demands that homosexuality
remains wrong. Wisdom is screaming at us:
homosexual marriage is bad for the country. Truth
and Wisdom oppose it.
Take abortion, for another example.
Technologies developed since Roe v Wade in
1973 make it unmistakably clear for us to see that
the fetus is, in fact, a real human being, created
in God's image. In essence then, abortion is
murder. There is no other "possibility" to
consider here. And the crime of murder is never a
viable "possibility." See where I'm headed?
Agenda of evil
I recently heard that
Massachusetts is actually considering
decriminalizing bestiality. It is already legal in
the Netherlands. Anyone who wants this is demented
and pernicious. He is destroying his culture from
within. Will Durant perceptively said that "A
civilization is not conquered from within until it
has conquered itself from within." Indeed,
Consider the hot topic of child-abuse. Raping a
child is always wrong, as all rape is, but there
are certain groups in America that actually want
the age of consent lowered to twelve to
decriminalize adult-child sex. Can you spell the
American Circumnavigational Liberties
Union? How about the American Criminal
Liberties Union or the American Communist
Liberties Union? They are decidedly
un-American. And no matter how you spell it,
decriminalizing child rape will never make
it right. Truth opposes it. Prettying up
pedophilia with a value-neutral label like
inter-generational sex doesn't make
it any more pleasant to the victim. And NAMBLA's
man-boy-love wet dream is evil and wicked, and
that's the Truth. NAMBLA's website arrogantly says
"Freedom is indivisible. The liberation of
children, women, boy-lovers, and homosexuals in
general, can occur only as complementary facets of
the same dream." Did you get that? In
my opinion, that is reprehensible and abhorrent.
Beyond that, it is insidious and even diabolical.
Truth adamantly opposes them. Some people argue
that you can find Truth by eliminating all that is
not True. So it is with these things.
Leftist America is suffering
from a Truth Deficit Disorder. Liberal leading
Democrats repeat their seriously incorrect chant
that "Bush lied," but they lie to us every day by
advancing an agenda of evil under color of
fairness and decency. Liberal judges, misusing the
concept of judicial review, continually usurp
We the People. Americans opposed abortion,
but the Supreme Court lied and said otherwise and
45 million babies died as a result. Most Americans
want God in their public lives, yet the Supreme
Court said that there is a mythical "wall of
separation between church and state." I've read
the Constitution and I don't see it anywhere.
Americans overwhelmingly oppose homosexuality, yet
the Supreme Court recently said that there is a
Constitutional right to sodomy. WHAT'S WRONG WITH
THIS PICTURE? Michael Savage says that
Liberalism is a mental disease. Maybe so.
Regarding the war in Iraq, are Liberals ready to
die for their beliefs as the brave American
soldier is? I doubt it.
In his email, this person
continued:
"How
often are we trying to always be right and blame
someone else for the problems in our own lives and
have no respect or tolerance for those that have a
different view.... There's nothing good or bad,
right or wrong, about it. So what does it mean if
one side is right and the other is wrong (it's all
relative, and what was considered the right thing
50 years ago is not the case today.) The problem
still remains. It only makes a difference to our
egos to continue to fight to determine who's right
and wrong."
Wow,
that was not very well thought-out. We have a
similar problem going on now with the
ill-considered debate over whether the U.S.
Constitution is a 'living document' or whether
it was written in stone, so to speak. When we have
a roadmap that has guided the country successfully
for over two hundred years, why change it? The
motivation for changing or replacing the
Constitution is motivated by a hate of the Truth.
This is the same Truth that tells us that some
things are wrong and are outlawed by God. Don't
change it. We all love our mom's cooking, I
know that I sure do! She makes great ham and bean
soup. I wouldn't dream of asking her to change it.
Hey Mom, would you please take out the ham and
replace it with liver? It would taste awful, and
altering our Constitution apart from the
appropriately difficult amendment process tastes
equally bad to most Americans. Don't alter the
recipe. Our Constitution did not come with an
expiration date.
To me, this man's email
argument sounds like the new religion of moral
relativism, which is one of the reasons that
there is so much more obvious perversion and evil
around today, and most of it goes unchallenged in
the name of political correctness, "tolerance,"
and "inclusiveness." Modern-day America, once a
strong moral force for good in the world, now
leads the world in immorality. Over the last
hundred years, we gave the nations of the world
Hope and Liberty, and now we give it
porn, Gansta Rap and "gay
marriage." It's terribly appalling. I actually
heard some Americans say that it was "cute" when
Elton John, 58, "married" his longtime partner
David Furnish, 43. No one even bothered to comment
on the great age discrepancy. But "cute"? No.
What's so cute about two men having anal sex?
Hollywood has got it all wrong. It's not the
mountain that is the focus — the country's back is
what's broken. And what's "cute" about throwing
the Rulebook away and blessing such an unnatural
union?
The country
as a whole has lost its moral compass. Left is now
right and up is now down. This is the FIRST time
in history that any country has seriously
entertained the idea of placing the most unnatural
act imaginable under the hallowed institution of
marriage. But that is just the natural consequence
of forty years of legislating God out of most
areas of public life.
Truth is "truth" precisely because
it IS Truth, if you get my meaning. For instance,
if you want to go to Texas, you go get a map and
follow the directions. If you're cooking a
casserole, you follow the directions in the recipe
if you want your guests to enjoy the meal. If you
want to know "truth," you also get a map — you go
to the Bible. It is irrelevant if you do not
happen to believe it. The explosive truth in
nuclear physics ignores the concept of
confinement. Truth has strength. Gravity does not
yield to the fool who ignores it and jumps off a
cliff to their peril.
I maintain that we have arrived at
a moral cliff in America with abortion and now
with the glorification of aberrant homosexual
behavior. The issue of whether we should or should
not legitimize homosexual marriage may have once
seemed like a complicated issue, as some still say
it is, but as Alan Keyes says, "Now having arrived
at the abyss, it's all very clear. All the options
we thought we had are now gone." There aren't too
may choices here, folks. Now we either jump off
into the void, lacking all precepts of morality
and in effect becoming a conscienceless country;
or we turn around, heed the "Truth" and do as the
Bible says. We'll endeavor to do our best to live
our lives according to Truth. With Truth, everyday
is not a winding road.
Pontius
Pilate once fatefully asked, "What is
truth?" Truth does not alter itself to suit
those whom it has the authority to
envelope. And Truth finally comes as a
sometimes-brutal conqueror only to those who have
given up the willingness to receive it as a
friend.
JOIN me!
Sincerely,
Guy
Adams
© Copyright 2006 by Guy
Adams
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