A series of recent events strikes me as being much like a quilt; there is a common thread running through it. Here are the events:
Event #1 – Al Gore is forced to admit that his confident assertion that all arctic ice will soon melt is not based on science, but instead on his own personal belief . . . in other words, a statement of faith.
Event #2 – The hacked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, which has led to the Climategate scandal: To perpetuate the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth as genuine, best-practice science, scientists have been forced to abandon science in favor of faith (the data doesn’t show it, but we believe it anyway) and, strictly for the benefit of mankind, they also had to lie.
Event #3 – A Canadian newspaper recently editorialized a helpful suggestion to combat AGW. Diane Francis of the National Post recommended that the entire world follow the example of China in its one child policy. The article by Francis went on to praise all the benefits to China resulting from its one child policy. Francis conveniently forgot to tell you how difficult it is for young Chinese men to find a suitable bride. It isn’t because Western mores have sullied a whole generation of eligible Chinese bachelorettes (which I imagine is the preferred explanation of multi-culti America bashers). The real explanation . . . an inconvenient truth if you will . . . lies in all the aborted female babies that never grew up to become eligible bachelorettes. China’s one child policy has led to the wholesale slaughter of females as Chinese parents, limited to only one child, use abortion to ensure a son. Perhaps, Francis’ embrace of China’s one child policy qualifies as a hate crime in Canada? The same Canadian thought crime tribunal (aka, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal) that went after Mark Steyn should be immediately notified of Francis’ gender hatred.
Event #4 – Live Action’s Rose Acuna project is catching Planned Parenthood (PP) in the act of lying about fetal development to women considering an abortion. In short, the “counselors” at Planned Parenthood are trying desperately to strip the preborn of their humanity to make it all the easier for women to consent to an abortion. The PP counselors lie about when the child’s heartbeat begins and even state that it’s not a baby until birth. Of course, deception is not new for PP. Live Action has also caught PP in the act of aiding and abetting the cover up of statutory rapes and gladly accepting racist donations specifically meant to abort African American babies. Planned Parenthood’s version of science, like the scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, apparently involves quite a bit of deception . . . all for the good of humanity of course.
Event #5 – Buying off senators to pass the health care reform boondoggle at any cost, truth be damned. We witnessed the re-purchasing of Louisiana (aka, buying off Sen. Mary Landrieu) and now we have the potential 500 million dollar purchase of Senator Ben Nelson’s vote. The actual effects of the bill are secondary to the largesse used to grease the wheels of a yea vote. You see, large amounts of largesse . . . say in the hundreds of millions . . . equates to a humongous amount of power, and that gives quite a buzz, not surpassed by any other intoxicant known to man . . . truth be damned.
So, in the space of a short blog, I’ve mentioned five patches to the quilt just off the top of my head. There are plenty of other patches; the list could go on and on. But make no mistake; there is indeed a common thread. If, however, you’re on any one patch, then it may be hard to see the thread and that, I fear, is by design (and not necessarily human either; see Ephesians 6:12 and C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters).
The answer to, “what is the common thread?” is best summed up with Pilate’s infamous question:
“What is truth?” (John 18:38)
In Pilate’s case, he wasn’t providing an answer in a “Jeopardy!” format. He was instead denying the very existence of truth, and that is the common thread. Those unfortunate enough to share the same perspective as Pilate will also surely be afflicted by a concomitant condition: they will fail to realize that truth is as essential to life as Oxygen and Water. In fact, it is essential to the most important facet of life . . . eternal, immortal life. Jesus Christ (Mark 2: 1-12) indicated this when a cripple was lowered through a hole in a roof in order to reach him. Christ did not at first cure the man of his physical affliction. He at first forgave his sins, and only when people were aghast at Christ doing only what is reserved for God (the forgiveness of sins), did Jesus cure the man of his physical ailment. Christ then asked which is easier: to forgive the man’s sins or to tell the cripple to rise and walk away fully cured?
On that particular day, Jesus affected two cures . . . the curing of the cripple’s eternal soul and then the curing of his physical, fallen body. The curing of the soul is by far the most important, and it is precisely this fact that is so ultimately lost on those who share Pilate’s view on the truth (“What is truth?”). Those who are afflicted with Pilate’s Syndrome don’t even realize that they need something more vital than even water and Oxygen.
Christ, of course, was clear in his definition of the truth. He said that He is the truth (John 14:6). When truth is denied, Christ too is therefore denied. It is the equivalent of an attempted repudiation of the ultimate moral law giver who Lords over all reality . . . both that which is seen and unseen. The moral laws . . . aka, the truth . . . are not a bunch of prudish killjoys meant to impede our free-to-be-me, self-actualization (as many shrinks maintain). Rather they are the owner’s manual instructions on maintaining a healthy immortal, human soul. They are healing and joy. They are the only nutritious food for the soul.
Repudiation of the ultimate moral lawgiver, though, is not without consequence. We end up with things like the rise of new age, Gnostic religions like Anthropogenic Global Warming and hedonistic death cults like the abortion industry in America. The truth of the matter is that when you deny truth, like Pilate, you deny the soul its very sustenance and by doing so, you ensure its eternal death, separation from its source . . . the way, the truth, and the life, Jesus Christ.
So, truth denied is Christ rejected and Christ rejected is a Pandora’s Box of human misery. Creeping out of that box is Al Gore, Copenhagen’s Climate Summit, Planned Parenthood, China’s population control, and the list could go on and on. When a culture rejects truth, it rejects life and it inevitably weaves a death quilt that will surely serve double duty as that society’s death shroud . . . final jeopardy indeed.
PG DeFreese
Victoria Coates
Moe Lane
Daniel Horowitz
Dan Spencer
