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Truth

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Truth

Let’s define truth:  A faithful representation of the facts.  The definition of truth has gone through a transformation in recent years.  What we imagine is often now regarded as truth.  So, fantasy can be truth which really muddies the water when talking about reality or the facts.

When I am sleeping, I can have dreams that seem very true to me, but they are not consistent with facts.  I have run in recent dreams, something I haven’t done in many years.  I once was riding in a car with Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister of Israel, in my dream, but it was not fact even though it was real to me.

Truth is something external that we discover, not something internal that we create.

For instance, if I determined internally that I was a dog, what’s true for me? Would it be all right for others to put me on a leash, or shock collar, and feed me only dog food?  That is considered humane for dogs. Or is my doghood not really “THAT” true?

Or if I identify as a deer.  I created my internal ‘truth’. Would it really be all right to shoot me and eat me since that is legal to do with deer or is this a different truth than factual truth?

When I was in high school, we had a student that said he was a tree.  So he would stand in the hall before school and between classes doing his tree dance. He identified as a tree.  Is that truth?  Would it have been ok to bring chainsaws and cut him into firewood or was his internally created truth not really true?  Was his imagination a faithful representation of the facts?  Trees have characteristics consisting of true substances he didn’t have, wood and leaves to name just 2.  Roots?  Ok I’ll stop.

Because one identifies as something or someone does not make it truth. It must faithfully represent the facts!

  • (Excerpt from article) In defining truth, it is first helpful to note what truth is not:
  • Truth is not simply whatever works. This is the philosophy of pragmatism—an ends-vs.-means-type approach. In reality, lies can appear to “work,” but they are still lies and not the truth.
  • Truth is not simply what is coherent or understandable. A group of people can get together and form a conspiracy based on a set of falsehoods where they all agree to tell the same false story, but it does not make their presentation true.
  • Truth is not what makes people feel good. Unfortunately, bad news can be true.
  • Truth is not what the majority says is true. Fifty-one percent of a group can reach a wrong conclusion.
  • Truth is not what is comprehensive. A lengthy, detailed presentation can still result in a false conclusion.
  • Truth is not defined by what is intended. Good intentions can still be wrong.
  • Truth is not how we know; truth is what we know.
  • Truth is not simply what is believed. A lie believed is still a lie.
  • Truth is not what is publicly proved. A truth can be privately known (for example, the location of buried treasure).

 

Why did Jesus say He was the truth? https://www.christianity.com/jesus/is-jesus-god/names-of-jesus/how-is-jesus-the-truth.html

Critical Race Theory

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Critical Race Theory (CRT)

Systemic Racism

Critical race theory’s key assertion is

that racism is not the result of individual, conscious racist actions or thoughts. Racism is “systemic” and “structural.”

 It is embedded in America’s legal system, institutions, and free-enterprise system, and imposes “whiteness” as the societal norm.

The system, including capitalism, is “rigged”

to reward white behavior and preserve

white supremacy. Curricula and training sessions that teach that racism is systemic and structural, and demand that Americans work to dismantle laws, traditions, norms, institutions, and free-market enterprise—the entire American system itself—are part of CRT.  (Taken from E-Booklet The Heritage Foundation on CRT)

 

Systemic Racism means that racism is within the laws and governing system of a nation or other governed entity.

While racism is alive in the hearts of mankind all over the world, the laws of the United States do not make distinction of how to treat people on the basis of race.  This has been in the system in the past and prevalent in states until as recently as the 1960’s where people could not use water fountains, restrooms or hotels if they were black. 

People who are racist are still in positions of authority and might use their authority with prejudice.  However, the Laws of the Nation are not such that their behavior is justified or legal.  The racism is not systemic in the sense that it is not justified in the legal system.

A major objection to CRT is that it creates division by contending that in society there are oppressors and the oppressed.  And you are automatically an oppressor if you are racially white and you are oppressed if you are racially black.  This is diametrically opposed to the desire expressed by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his equal rights movement when he stated his goal that one day people would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

To read or view videos on this topic you can go to:   The Heritage Foundation, Christopher Rufo

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/critical-race-theory-fight/

 

Critical Race Theory – Christopher F. Rufo

https://youtu.be/cfmpnGV0IGc

 

https://christopherrufo.com/resources-for-fighting-crt/

CRT Ebook (Email required to receive)

https://secured.heritage.org/critical-race-theory-ebook-offer/?utm_campaign=crtebook&utm_medium=textlink&utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_content=heritage_org_crt_page

 

https://datavisualizations.heritage.org/education/critical-race-theory-legislation-tracker/

 – Legislation tracker

 

https://www.heritage.org/education/report/seven-steps-combatting-critical-theory-the-classroom

 

https://www.heritage.org/defense/heritage-explains/critical-race-theory-the-military

 

https://www.glennbeck.com/blog/critical-race-theory-marxist-definition-of-history

Abortion

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Abortion Overview

From a Biblical point of view, we can see in several verses that the unborn or preborn baby is indeed a stage in human development, not a totally different non-human entity.  In Luke 1:44 we read what happened when Mary came to visit her cousin Elizabeth.  Both were pregnant, Mary with Jesus and Elizabeth with John the Baptist.  Elizabeth says, “For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy.” 

The Greek word for baby in this verse is “Brephos”, which is used in Greek for either a preborn or newborn.  It’s not a change in existence from one creature to another.  It is a change in residence from inside the mother to outside. Currently the most dangerous place to live in America is not in Chicago, New York or St. Louis, but in your mother’s womb.

As a civil rights issue abortion is a crime on the basis of place of residence.  A baby unborn 7 months after conception can be killed inside of her mother while a baby 7 months from conception outside of her mother’s womb like my youngest granddaughter is considered a protected human with rights.  Same stage of development, just a different place of residence and stopping its beating heart is legal if you can’t see the baby inside the mother, but murder if this same baby would be visible outside of its mother.

However, the slippery slide of disregard for life is encroaching even on this as now we see advocates for allowing this baby to die if it is a product of an unsuccessful abortion and finds itself alive outside the mother.  Some want to disregard that it is alive and breathing and give it no support to live because the intention was to kill it while still inside the mother.

Both Psalm 139:13-16 and Jeremiah 1:5 show how God regards as a real person, people before they are born.

You’re Not Pro-Life If…?

I have heard in the last two years that if you don’t have an open border philosophy or if you don’t wear a mask you cannot be pro-life because someone could die not crossing the border or they could get Covid if you’re not wearing a mask and die. 

With that reasoning if you text and drive or simply drive a car you cannot be pro-life because someone could die.

The difference is in the intent.  Someone who doesn’t wear a mask or believes in a strict immigration border policy does not do that to kill someone, but every abortion is done with the intent to kill someone, and Intent makes the difference!

Synopsis of Roe v Wade:

https://supreme.findlaw.com/supreme-court-insights/roe-v–wade-case-summary–what-you-need-to-know.html

 

Abortion Facts:

https://www.focusonthefamily.com/pro-life/facts-and-research-about-the-unborn-and-abortion

 

Types of Abortion procedures:

 

Pro-Life Abortion Information:

 

Planned Parenthood 

 

Human Fetal Tissue Research FAQ’s