R.I.P. Veritas

R.I.P. Veritas

“What is truth?” This was Pontius Pilate’s retort to the assertion of Christ that “those who are of the truth hear My voice”. It’s easy to kill an innocent man when one is deaf to the truth. Even abortion is justifiable when “the Way, the Truth, and the Life” is a stranger. What happens to a nation when the "self-evident" truths we were founded on are no longer recognized? The realities of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (property) become matters of opinion.

The reelection of Barack Obama stunned me. How could voters approve of a U.S. President who had proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that his ideology and actions were moving this nation toward Socialism and away from Constitutional principles at such a dramatically rapid pace? It’s easy when the masses don’t know Constitutional principles and prefer to be ruled by emotion rather than information! Truth has come to mean what one chooses to believe. I learned this first-hand while teaching intermediate school students about our nation’s foundations. There were times when, after teaching a fact about our Constitution and letting them make the connection to instances of the President’s blatant disregard for the Rule of Law, students who identified with Obama would merely decide not to believe those facts. This took me aback. How do we teach our students anything if they can pick and choose which facts and information to “believe”, based on their unfounded ideologies?

More recently, we see evidence that this deception is actively promoted in adult society. Despite evidence to the contrary, riots are staged to protest the truth! Mainstream media and political leaders are in collusion with this deceit by propagating cognitive dissonance: supporting the unlawful protests with the same breath they use to report the justly concluded grand jury decisions. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton actually confessed that, while she did not read the evidence report, “that is not a concern.” She had decided to support the protests based on her feelings.  Other Congressional members posed with hands raised, announcing, “Hands up. Don’t shoot.” in the House Chamber. This is frightening! Those with bully pulpits and the privilege and responsibility of voting are equating opinion with fact, with complete disregard for their oaths of office.

"It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."

Patrick Henry 1775 - speech in the Virginia Convention

We’re sacrificing Rule of Law for Rule of Man, and whether one believes it or not, the truth of history proves that this never ends well.