As I watch the ongoing verbal warfare among our political leaders, one area of conflict stands out. It is the trend of men competing in women’s sports. There is a small group of Americans who tell us that our sex is a state of mind. If you feel male…….you are male. If you feel female……..you are female. This small group of leaders has pursued this idea to the point of allowing men to compete in women’s sports. They even allow men to dress and shower in women’s locker rooms.
The vast majority of the electorate does not support this.
The physical evidence against this idea is overwhelming.
This disenfranchises and harms women throughout the sports community. The only people who gain are men who can win a phoney prize by defeating women.
Why does our culture do this?
The science, the physical evidence, our sense of right and wrong, and even our conscience scream that this is wrong. The left, which champions this idea, is taking a beating at the poles over it. And yet they persist.
This is not the only example:
Your sex is merely a state of mind.
There is no difference between men and women.
An unborn child is not a human being with a soul.
Sexual intercourse between two men….or women…….is OK.
Stealing less than $1,000 is not theft.
Insider trading by our leaders is OK.
Joe Biden is “sharp as a tack”.
War is a satisfactory tool for promoting your national interests.
All illegals are bad for America.
Jews are the new Nazis.
Lying to your parents, your boss, your spouse, the IRS…..is justifiable……it is your right.
And the biggest lie of all……..Satan is just another myth……a phoney “boogeyman”.
The list goes on.
Both the left and the right are guilty.
These ideas are absurd. And yet, as crazy as they are, we argue about them every day. By the very active of arguing, we legitimize these ideas.
What is going on here?
These ideas are not the real issue. The real motivation behind these ideas is far more nefarious……..far more deadly for our culture……..far more dangerous for humanity writ large.
What we are really fighting over is the very existence of truth. The attempt to destroy truth is the face of the attempt to eradicate the Holy Spirit.
Truth is important to God. Jesus taught the primacy of absolute truth. The Holy Spirit is the definition of Truth.
And yet, every day, as a culture, we reject the truth. We settle for a lie. The problem is far bigger than a man winning a medal at a swim meet. The problem is that we are becoming comfortable with rejecting the truth. We are glibly incorporating lies into our daily life.
The truth exists……whether we like it or not.
The truth is absolute.
You cannot negotiate with the truth.
You cannot bend the truth to your desires.
You cannot destroy the truth. You only destroy yourself by crashing into it.
The war that our culture is conducting against the truth is the symptom of a much bigger and more deadly conflict. It is the conflict between the Holy Spirit……and Satan. Our culture will not be the first to be destroyed because we abandoned the truth. Our enemy knows this.
Please understand……..our enemy is not Chuck Schumer or Donald Trump. It is not DHS or the rioters in Minnesota. The enemy is Satan.
Satan is real………this is the truth.
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Jesus describing Satan, John 8:44, ESV
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
Jesus describing the Holy Spirit, John 16: 13-14, ESV