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Home/Biblical and Theological/Relativism and Embodied Truth

Relativism and Embodied Truth

We see the dignity of embodied humanity supremely in the incarnation.

Written by Sharon James | Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Critical theory now challenges the very concept of reason. We are collectively plunging down the vortex of insanity. We stand amid the ruins of a culture that has defied and denied the creator God.

 

Once upon a time, boys were boys, girls were girls, and binary was a mathematical term.

Today, however, the idea that there are only two sexes, male or female, which you stay in from birth, has been condemned as transphobic. The sex binary, we are told, is just an idea. To argue otherwise is sometimes regarded as hate speech.

This new orthodoxy is a denial of reality, a rejection of science, and an attack on God our Creator.

The Enlightenment project and its result, modernism, effectively said, “We don’t need God anymore!” Without God, we are left to our own reason. Yet trying to derive certain knowledge by relying on our own individual reason is doomed. Who is to judge between competing claims? We are pushed toward complete relativism. As confidence in the claims of modernism faded, instead of turning back to belief in God the Creator who defines reality and truth, people attempted to escape from reason. Modernism crumpled into postmodernism.

It takes years to construct a magnificent cathedral. A bomb can reduce it to rubble in minutes. To build a civilization involves the cumulative wisdom of generations over centuries. From the 1920s, a group of thinkers set in motion a process aimed at smashing the hegemony (power) of culture, tradition, family, religion—all the various institutions that opposed unlimited personal freedom.

This cultural revolution set out to question everything, to deconstruct, to subvert reality. The tactics? Divide humanity between the powerful and the oppressed (men and women, “straight” and “gay,” “cis” and “trans,” white and black, abled and disabled, ad infinitum). Deceive people into thinking that all truth claims are grabs for power. Those who hold power use “big stories” (religion, family values, historical narratives, science, etc.) to keep control. Words are just tools in this power game.

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