Truth. It's Kind Of Important.

Yesterday evening I watched the movie Flight, starring Denzel Washington.
Whoa. Not a family movie, but an important one. At every turn, I kept hoping the main character would finally tell the truth and set himself free.

On Christmas Eve, a Facebook friend posted information about the pagan origins of celebrating the birth of Christ on December 25. My first reply was, "Because Truth matters", to which another replied, "What is the truth.?.....to me, Christmas is celebrating the coming, and birth of our savior, Jesus Christ....if we are off by a few months, so what...the fact that we believe and worship..should please him....Silent night, Holy night..." 

I couldn't resist: "'Worship in spirit and truth."'John 4:24 'What is truth?' This was Pontius Pilate’s retort to the assertion of Christ that 'those who are of the truth hear My voice'. I choose to celebrate Christ daily in truth. I do not judge you for your mode of worship. I just explain my stand."

Today, a Facebook friend posted a comment about how the Left achieves their political goals with blatant lies. This was my reply:  WHY have  we seen such a disregard for the Truth in this administration? According to psychology, lying is often rooted in the cognitive dissonance of narcissism and low self-esteem. One does not feel worthy, so must tell lies to keep the needy ego inflated. We've witnessed nearly pathological levels of lying from this current administration, yet every lie is propagated to forward the same agenda: increased power in the hands of the few. What we are witnessing is Socialist Propaganda, plain and simple. What was true in 1959, is true today: "It is this kind of socialist propa­ganda that is so dangerous. It aims at attracting the general pub­lic by what is in fact an exact re­versal of the truth."http://fee.org/freeman/detail/socialist-propaganda

Truth is OBJECTIVE, not SUBJECTIVE.

"[T]ruth is always that matching up of an idea to reality." 
http://www.dwillard.org/articles/artview.asp?artID=66

When we stop matching up an idea to reality, we are living in a fantasy world. Which is the perfect place to dwell if you are in an asylum. Only Truth will set us free.