Friday, April 8, 2011

Undeniable Truth


Nickie Muir, Northern Advocate 16th March, 2011

Nickie wrote about “not giving any doomsday Christian fundamentalists any oxygen” and later about her willingness to “turn her brain off” to “follow the mythic mind of old” in the person of some guru “complete with absolutist answers to everything”.

As far as I’m concerned the truths I have learned as an unashamedly “Christian fundamentalist” have been pure air to my brain. I’ve learned that even while one denies truth as an absolute one is in fact confirming that truth is indeed absolute. What Nickie is in effect saying is “it’s absolutely true that absolutes are false”. Even to make a denial of truth is to affirm its existence. She would have us believe absolutist answers are a load of cobblers. As to “answers to everything” the attitude of relativistic nihilism is not a palatable answer at all, it is this sacrilegious answer fed to our young people that devalues life to the point where hoons will chuck drinks at infants in prams.

We humans have an uncanny ability to deny the undeniable, obfuscate the clear.

There was a young man who said "God

Must think it exceedingly odd

If he finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there's no one about in the Quad."

"Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd;

I am always about in the Quad

And that's why this tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by Yours faithfully, God."

Unknown

A line from “Creed” by Steve Turner:
We believe that each man must find the truth that is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.

Yeah Right...