We live in a post-truth world. It was not this way a decade or so ago, but it sure is now.

Pick your poison: politics, religion, sexuality, the family structure, history, climate change, crime, illegal immigration, or the left’s patently ridiculous and obsessive fallacy that men can become pregnant. Pick whatever issue you want – it makes no difference.

Whichever issue(s) you choose, you will discover mounting numbers of people no longer want the truth.

Oh, they KNOW the facts are the facts, but they totally reject them anyways. Nothing will change their mind. They’ve already made their choice, and the facts didn’t ‘factor’ in.

It’s fruitless to point to articles, statistics, research, testimony, or whatever evidence underscores the proof. You’d be wasting your time imagining the truth matters with these folks. They have chosen intellectual dishonesty instead.

Post-truthers don’t care one bit about the way things REALLY are. If the truth conflicts with their choices, if it’s something that goes against the way they want to see things or the values they want to hold, then they’ll refuse to accept it.

Case closed. The concrete’s hard.

It’s why this bunch is always a very short fuse away from exploding with rage. Their God-given consciences are always reminding them they are wrong. Post-truthers are fundamentally AT WAR WITH REALITY.

This incredulous posture is a display of willful ignorance that defies comprehension. Rejecting the truth when the facts are clear ranks as an obvious symptom of mental disorder. It’s a case of extreme personal dysfunction and instability.

But keep in mind, this dynamic has all been carefully crafted. Our media ‘faithfully’ does its part to encourage this senseless situation. Our media today is not about ‘informing’ the population – it’s all about ‘influencing’ it. It’s a propaganda machine that feeds the willfully ignorant and insane.

It’s why we now find ourselves living in a world that provides only the smallest tincture of truth. If you got a polio vaccine (back when ‘vaccines’ were legit), you received a tiny bit of the disease. It prevented you from getting the full-blown condition.

Truth is just like that. If you choose to only accept the littlest bit of truth, it ‘vaccinates’ you – it PREVENTS you – from accepting all of it. You cannot embrace or comprehend the big picture anymore. You are now ‘resistant’ to the full impact of truth.

This has all been an effective strategy. It results in people wearing their masks while they’re driving alone in their cars. It results in folks fiercely arguing that men should compete in women’s sports. It has made ‘loonies’ scream that we should not have voter ID – but we should still check someone’s ID if they order a drink or tour a presidential library.  Naturally, none of this makes the least bit of sense.

The danger of all this is partial truth achieves the intentions of a total lie. Partial truth is the same as full deception.

But the bottom line remains that truth ‘is what it is’ and it must be faced. No matter how much it is attacked, the truth remains the truth. Truth doesn’t change, and it doesn’t go away. Facts are plain.

This is TERRIBLY inconvenient for many willfully deluded people.

For those who are affronted in some way by the truth, predictable responses arise. When it is opportunistic to overlook it, the truth is omitted. When truth cannot be avoided, it is misrepresented. When truth conflicts with one’s personal agenda, it is attacked.

Ultimately, if these sorts of treatments do not suffice, the messenger of truth – whomever or whatever that may be – is discredited, maligned, and excoriated. They may even be eliminated! Post-truthers will resort to violence to avoid an honest mirror.

It’s imperative to understand, “Truth is uncomfortable.” That’s because truth clarifies things; it exposes who we are and what we most want to believe about ourselves. Truth has a way of dividing, and so when truth is made clear, we are forced to make a decision.

Do we agree with the truth, or do we disagree with it? Whether we choose to agree or disagree does not change the truth itself. But our choices in response to truth say an awful lot about us.

I regret to say I don’t see this present dilemma improving – – not here in America anyway, and certainly not in the EU, which is nearly comprehensively a lost cause on these matters. Canada and Australia are not far behind. The numbers of ‘post-truthers’ are swelling every day, and their pursuit of wisdom and discernment is going down at the same rate.

According to Romans 1:28, the minds of this bunch no longer function anymore as they were intended to. God has given their minds over to depravity. That’s why this crowd has now reached a point where they are celebrating their corruption.

The conclusion of all this will be messy….to say the least. I know I speak for many when I say, “I’ve had enough.”

God will reach the same point. Being that He is a God of great grace and mercy, we’ve seen His patience demonstrated time and again. But it won’t last.

A prescribed time is coming when God’s patience will reach an end point. He’ll have had enough.

It’s then that His wrath and judgment will be executed upon a population that has refused to accept the facts. They will have condemned themselves because they rejected the truth of God’s eternal power and divine nature that is self-evident all around us.

Remarkably, most of the world at that time will understand God’s judgments and why they are happening. The Bible is clear. Humanity’s choices will be exposed for being wrong.

But just as things are now, the truth THEN won’t make any difference to them.

Revelation 16:9 tells us the future looks a lot like today. Folks won’t change. They won’t turn away from their depraved behaviors. Unbelievably, they’ll choose to curse God for the consequences of their own personal choices. It’s not hard to understand since all their problems started with a rejection of God in the first place.

They will end up being condemned and tormented for eternity. That’s a long time for someone to consider how they could have made better decisions while they still had the chance.

The Bible presents the straightforward message that refusal to accept truth places one’s soul at risk (James 5:20). For many, this journey of folly starts simply enough – like wanting tampon dispensers in boys’ bathrooms.

But left unchecked, this pattern of deliberate foolishness ultimately demands one pay the highest price.

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I want you to think about the adversaries in your life.

No, not the tax man or the bill collectors. Everyone deals with them. And I don’t mean pain and distress, health issues, past traumas, your HOA, family problems, or financial uncertainty. Most folks I know can relate to all – or a lot – of those things.

This is not about your job either. A lot of us get up every morning wondering if we have the strength to put our nose to the grindstone again. We all struggle in that space from time to time.

I’m talking about people.

I’m referring to the folks that don’t like you, who attack you, who put you down, and who conspire against you. I’m talking about people who mutter against you behind the scenes and who seem to disagree with you at every available opportunity.

I’m talking about those who have found part of their own identity in being a constant thorn in your side. Yeah – I’m talking about THOSE kinds of adversaries.

What!?! You don’t have any? What’s wrong with you?

In conversations I’ve had with several people lately, we’ve talked about these kinds of adversaries.

I didn’t bring the subject up. They did.

Those chats went something like this: General discussions about national affairs, Biblical doctrine, or politics gradually got more personal. Somewhere along the line, they told me they aren’t at odds with anyone – and as far as they see it, nobody’s got any issues with them.

What bothers me is they seem proud of that. They feel it’s some sort of badge of honor, a sign that they’re getting along and doing something right.

Excuse me while I barf!

Our world today doesn’t need any more dead fish that float downstream. It needs live, vigorous, determined fish who fight the flow and forge upstream. The world needs more fish who will battle the currents, bounce off the rocks, and assume the risks and challenges of swimming up and apart.

I am not a fish, and nor are you. But this analogy applies. Our current times are awash in compromise, spiritual erosion, and ‘wokeness.’ We urgently need people who will stand for virtue, speak the truth, and not endorse ‘politically correct’ opinions and ideas.

Said another way, the world desperately needs more people who are willing to take a few bumps and bruises and earn some adversaries. Even fierce ones!

I chanced upon an excerpt by 19th-century Scottish poet Charles Mackay. He pens this issue much better than I. Here is what he wrote:

“You have no enemies, you say?
Alas! my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,
You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You’ve never turned the wrong to right,
You’ve been a coward in the fight.”

I’m not clear if that’s the whole poem or part of it, but it’s enough to make the point. If one has earned no adversaries, then one has not stood for anything – or anyone.

They are a coward. That’s nothing to be proud of.

Look around you. Our world today is being ripped apart by unprincipled people. They are not concerned with law and order, and for them “the end justifies the means.” Their corruption is marked by an activism that’s fueled by ignorance and confidence.

They are determined to speak their mind, collect fake signatures, bury facts, promote senselessness, silence opposition, torch cars, assist criminals, and pull triggers.

What about the rest of us?

Speaking as a believer in Jesus Christ, I am mostly concerned with those who claim to be of the Christian faith. Many of that crowd gather each Sunday preoccupied with ‘fitting in,’ showing their tolerance, or being ‘attractive to the lost.’

Basically, they do whatever is necessary to not ‘rock the boat,’ ‘upset the apple cart,’ or ‘make waves.’

We live in perilous times when those in the faith are often more concerned with what they don’t want to be than they are concerned with what they SHOULD be. They’ve largely dismissed the fact that people who have chosen darkness rather than light (John 3:19) are often at odds with – and even hostile to – the truth.

Why?

Jesus Himself said we should expect the world to hate us – and that includes the things we stand for and support – because it first hated Him (John 15:18-20).

Several conclusions can be made here. First, if the lawless and misguided factions of this world have no bone to pick with you, if they feel you’ve got a lot in common with them – then you’re not standing for the truth!

Second, it’s not possible to do what’s right and avoid earning adversaries. You cannot have it both ways. In the same way you cannot run around with skunks without smelling like one, you cannot be a pioneer for truth without receiving arrows in your back.

And third – that whole badge of honor thing? It’s really about earning adversaries the right way.

While we are instructed to be at peace with everyone if it’s within our means to be so (Romans 12:18), this is no instruction to sidestep our personal responsibility to stand up for the truth. It’s to our own gain when we do the right thing the right way for the right reason (Luke 6:22).

The basic point needs to be stated again: to be right with God has often meant to be wrong with man. It’s always been that way…

When we demonstrate a right relationship with God; when we properly say the things that need to be said; when we stand up for law and order; when we ‘build our house upon the rock’ (Matt. 7:24-27); when we support God’s divinely created order of things; when we stand on the infallibility, authority, and completeness of God’s Word; when we expose the deeds of darkness; and when we fight for justice, we will become a target. We’ll gain adversaries.

That’s just the way it is. It’s part of living life as we are supposed to. It’s about REALLY being ‘salt’ and ‘light.’ There is no way around it.

If you don’t have any adversaries, you’ve got a problem.

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