The promises of freedom by abandoning truth have failed us. Jesus’ promise of freedom is sure and certain, and it comes through knowing the truth. In other words, by calling people to the truth, Christians offer freedom. This is our calling, especially in this civilizational moment.

Men have forgotten God.

That is the reason given by author and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, after fifty years of studying and writing about the history of the Russian Revolution that led to the death of over 60 million people. In fact, he continued…

What is more, the events of the Russian Revolution can only be understood now, at the end of the century, against the background of what has since occurred in the rest of the world. What emerges here is a process of universal significance. And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.

If that analysis were extended to today, to include the cultural chaos that emerged in the years after the Cold War into the first decades of the twenty-first century, it would be, “And, forgetting God, they abandoned truth.”

The abandonment of truth took the form of increasingly bizarre demands, especially within academia, government, and media, to accommodate what were obvious lies, myths, and falsehoods. According to Romans 1, the primary consequence of rejecting the Creator is to believe lies about reality, morality, and the human person. In our day, these lies are often sold with demands of “inclusion and equity” and with the promise of being free from traditional moral constraints and even the restrictions imposed by reality itself. These promises were as false as the lies. Instead of freedom, we’ve built a world with epidemic levels of unhappiness and isolation, not to mention the increased use of power and manipulation to enforce ideas that are obviously not true.

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