Mankind’s agenda is to keep God out of the picture. You are to be true to yourself, as long as the self you are being true to resembles nothing like the self which God designed men and women to be. Yet the path to finding our true selves is found in the God we are so desperately trying to avoid.

We live in a plastic world—I’m not referring to the avalanche of plastic which fills our bins, or litters our beaches. I’m thinking of the idea that we can be what we want, change who we are, make and remake ourselves at will—in many ways we have become plastic people.

All of the old forms are being torn down, or made fluid: marriage between a man and a woman, between one man and one woman, your gender, your sexuality, your pregnancy, your species are all up for grabs.

Self-determination, self-creation is what life is all about. The pop slogan of talent shows and positive thinking “You can be anything you want to be” has morphed into a mantra for all of life. You are free to choose your own course, your own identity, free to be whatever you want to be.

Except.

Have you noticed that freedom only runs in one direction? You are free to move away from the previously established norms, but woe betide anyone who chooses to move back towards them.

The transgendered person who was cheered on as they chose their own gender is vilified when they do the same thing again, and choose to revert to their original gender.

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