Unpopular Truth Vs. Popular Lies

Value addressed: Seek and Share Truth




Check out this cool video. I really like it and I believe in its message.
https://youtu.be/q_TEOyhy7Bg

This video reminds us of the real reason we celebrate Christmas. It is true that many people these days
dispute the truth of Jesus Christ as the savior for mankind or as Son of God. For me, though, there is
enough evidence for me to believe. While many like to use science to declare there is no God, science
has nevertheless not disproved God’s existence, but has only raised valid questions we need to answer.
So long as I have my personal evidences of God and so long as true science has not been able to
convince me otherwise, I must believe.

I absolutely believe in truth—seeking it and sharing it. If it could absolutely be proved, to my
satisfaction, that there were no God, then I would have to stop believing. If something is true, let’s
believe it; if it’s not, let’s don’t believe it. We mustn’t get caught up in believing things solely for
emotional reasons. We should value truth more than emotional securities created by false ideas. If I’m
wrong, I want to know how and why, then I want to know what the truth is, so I can learn it. I will also
share what I have found to be true, so that others may gain that knowledge. So, as I find truth in my
Christian faith, I want to share it.

In contrast, I just read yesterday an article that seemed to take a blatant falsehood and attempt to paint
it as an indisputable reality that people are naively ignoring. The headline reads “Transgender man in
Ecuador makes history by turning pregnant!” I first saw it on Yahoo news, but it is showing up on other
sources too. Hooray, what an amazing miracle! A man becomes pregnant! What utter nonsense! The article
spells out its own falsity. The “father” was born female and the “mother” was born male. At some point
they transgenderized (my word). The one born female, now calls herself a man and the one born male,
now calls himself female. And the article says that “neither has undergone gender-reassignment
surgery.” It even says the child was conceived in the old fashioned way. So in other words, the man who
calls himself a woman performed the function of a man by fertilizing the egg. The woman who calls
herself a man performed the function of a woman by carrying the child in her womb. So this is the great
history-making miracle: a man got a woman pregnant but they decided they would call themselves the
opposite genders.

This is much like a scientist declaring that the sky is now green, though when we look at it, we see no
change from the standard blue. But the scientist and the scientific journals proclaim the great geological
spectacle of the age, now that the sky has turned from blue to green! What an amazing marvel! But as Juliet
said to Romeo, “that which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.”

This is a far cry from seeking and sharing truth. We can’t expect to advance our species when we are
willing to buy and sell lies. We can’t expect to build unity if some of us can look at truth and blatantly
construct and distribute nonsensical lies. We become more united as we work together to know what is
really true. If some of us want to sell lies to promote some other agenda, divisions will arise.



What to teach children
- Teach them to evaluate what they hear and read against tried and true knowledge and experience
- Teach them to distinguish between wanting something to be true and discovering sound evidence that
it is true
- Teach them about the sources of truth, such as history, science, religion, mathematics—help them to
understand the nature of each, the potential for errors in each, and the types of truth generally derived
from each
- Teach them to withhold judgment on something if they can’t determine the truth; don’t just make up
things, but rather state what they do know and what they don’t know

Merry Christmas to all!