It is as deadly as it is swift and easy, the refutation of our most sacred national creed. That creed affirms, “There is no such thing as objective truth.” With these three words we refute it, slay it, and dust off the spot on which it once stood, “Is that true?” If there is no objective truth it is not objectively true that there is no objective truth. If it is objectively truth that there is no objective truth than there is objective truth.
The objective truth is that we all want to deny those truths that cramp our style. One strategy is to embrace that silly creed. What happens though, when you want to cramp the style of others? The very pantheon of the gods of relativism, the social media overlords, now find themselves frustrated that we deplorables, those they have been trying to convert to this most sophisticated creed, refuse to embrace their truth. Not just their truth that there is no truth, but their truth that COVID will kill us all if we don’t wear our masks and get vaccinated.
If I begin my affirmation with their creed, “Of course, there’s no such thing as objective truth. We all have our own,” can I go on to say, without running afoul of the Ministry of Truth, “and my truth is that we don’t yet know if the vaccine, which is unlike any prior vaccine, is safe and we do know that my family is not in any genuine danger from COVID.” I’m not saying it’s THE TRUTH. I’m just saying it’s MY truth. Will they let me say it? Or, could I simply identify as vaccinated?
To put it another way, if there is no information, how can there possibly be such a thing as misinformation? To me President Biden stole the election. To me President Trump stole the 2016 nomination. To me the 10th Amendment means 95% of the programs run and financed by the federal government are unconstitutional. To me homosexual practice is an abomination before the true and living God that must be, like my own sins, repented of. To me there are two kinds of boys, those who know they are boys and are content about it and those who know they are boys and are confused about it. To me, justice is colorblind.
I could, of course, go on. I could wave a great red cape before the eyes of the raging bulls in Silicon Valley. They may well charge at me. In doing so, however, they are confessing that colors are real, and that truth claims are either true, or false. If they really believed that there is no truth, they wouldn’t fear anyone’s truth claims. If they really believed there is no right and wrong, they wouldn’t try to end the wrong they call “spreading disinformation.”
They, however, are guilty of the worst disinformation. They lie that there is no truth. They do wrong in denying there is right. The Truth, however, Who set us free, is about the business of crushing their heads. And one day they will all join us in confessing that He is Lord.