Truth: It’s supposed to set us free.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the Truth. In our current culture truth is a little like pudding that fails to jell. It’s flimsy, flakey and very difficult to recognize if it doesn’t line up with the thought of the day. I just watched a scientific show on the origins of life. In it, it investigates and shows the holes in Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection. This was not a Christian based show but a DVD produced by Scientists. With recent discoveries of DNA coding and what’s behind it, according to this show, there must be intelligence involved in the process. Yet much of the scientific community, and some reading this blog will reject that idea writing it off as motivated by religion rather than taking the time to look at the facts in an attempt to discover the truth.

This got me thinking about truth.

Is truth really in the eyes of the beholder? 

Is truth simply a matter of how each of us sees things?

Does majority decide the truth or is it something that’s simply true, whether we like it or not?

Truth is supposed to set us free but in our current cultural, conventional truth seems to be more important than simple “truth”. Conventional truth creates robots not thinkers.

We’ve almost grown accustom to watering down the truth. Politicians, governments, religions have learned to professionally “manage the message” to a point where searching for the truth has become a challenge. You have to work at finding the truth not simply listening to the evening news, reading the paper or believing what you hear. I think that is a positive that comes out of all of this. However, it’s a positive that you have to work for and we are not a culture that likes to dig for information anymore. We’re used to the spoon-feeding and ridding ourselves of the silverware is difficult.

I live in Springfield, near Eugene and a couple of bumper stickers are as familiar in the area as VW Vans and old Volvo’s. One reads “Question Authority”. Problem is, that bumper sticker doesn’t mean question “Cultural Authority”. The other one has something to do with open minds being like parachutes. The point being we all need to be more open minded. The problem is, open mindedness also is in the eyes of the beholder or our culture. Question: Why is it still okay to look down on people who are overweight?

We like to think of ourselves as “Free Thinkers”?  But the concept of “True Free Thinking” will get you in trouble. Those who say they support your freedom to think outside the box might be the first to attempt to blog you into silence or submission.

As I watch the events of this past week I see and feel some hope for change. But the truth is change is costly, change means pain, change means we can’t rely on one man or his party to do the right thing. Change means, as our new president has said, we must all get involved. At this point, getting involved is so easy to agree with. When it means getting our hands really, really dirty, how many will still be standing in the volunteer line?

It is said that the truth will set us free. The problem is we need to be free to find the truth. I wonder that we haven’t become so numb to the truth that we may not recognize it when it stares us in the face. 

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