No Truth

We have now come to this. We are now a nation with no absolute truth. We now all must rely on our own perceptions, which are themselves truths of equal importance.

Back in College, my Philosophy professor said something that has remained with me all these years: There has to be only one absolute truth because there is only one reality we share.

But of course that is not where we find ourselves now. Today, we all have different realities playing out in our own individualized, customized social media feeds. Very few of these realities we actually share.

And yet, our very own hearts are so uneasy with this. At best we laugh at the intellectual acrobatics we need to contort ourselves to justify this world of "perception is reality". Our very conscience is resisting this. Our very selves crave for a shared reality: An absolute truth upon which we build our identity, our culture, our history, our nationhood.

For what are we apart from this? Leaves thrown into the winds blown by those who influence what we perceive.

As a Christian, I contemplate daily what Jesus has said more than two millennia ago: "I am the way, the truth and the life." What an absolutely brazen thing to say. Today, even more so.

And yet, has there been anyone in history who has described reality and the human condition so accurately that societies built on His philosophy have persisted to this day?

Maybe it has been too long. Come, Lord Jesus. Maranatha!