How can Christians defend truth and clarity to a world that rejects both? Increasingly, Western culture embraces confusion as a virtue and decries certainty as a sin. Those who are confused about sexuality and identity are viewed as heroes. Those who are confused about morality are progressive pioneers. Those who are confused about spirituality are praised as tolerant. Conversely, those who express certainty about any of these issues are seen as bigoted, oppressive, arrogant, or intolerant. This cultural phenomenon led the ...
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How can Christians defend truth and clarity to a world that rejects both? Increasingly, Western culture embraces confusion as a virtue and decries certainty as a sin. Those who are confused about sexuality and identity are viewed as heroes. Those who are confused about morality are progressive pioneers. Those who are confused about spirituality are praised as tolerant. Conversely, those who express certainty about any of these issues are seen as bigoted, oppressive, arrogant, or intolerant. This cultural phenomenon led the compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary to name "post-truth" their word of the year in 2016. It's popularity and relevance has only increased since then. By accurately describing the Culture of Confusion and how it has affected our society, author Abdu Murray seeks to awaken Westerners to the plight we find ourselves in. He also challenges Christians to consider how they have played a part in fostering the Culture of Confusion through bad arguments, unwise labeling, and emotional attacks. Ultimately, Saving Truth provides arguments from a Christian perspective for the foundations of truth and how those foundations impart clarity to the biggest topics of human existence: Freedom. Human dignity. Sexuality, Gender, and Identity. Science and Faith. Religious pluralism and Morality. For those enmeshed in the culture of confusion, Saving Truth offers a way to untangle oneself and find hope in the clarity that Christ offers.
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Post-truth is "the means to forge one's own destiny free of the shackles of tradition, facts, and even logic.� Unlike postmodernism, the post-truth mindset acknowledges objective truth, but subordinates it to preferences. Preference over evidence. Post-truth people admit to there being truth while ignoring it.
Murray shows how people want the freedom to do whatever they want, but this freedom often ends up hurting themselves and others more than serving and benefiting society. If one is going to grow and flourish, you can't throw off all restraints.
Peter Singer advocates that babies can be killed by their parents even after they are born. As the argument goes, parents (should) have the autonomy to decide whether their "baby's value justifies the burden of caring for it. And if that burden impinges on parents' autonomy, the baby can be eliminated" (64). We are trying to be God, having all power, but we lack his divine wisdom. Hoping to be gods, we have become devils. But Singer argues that we have a moral obligation to help those who are poverty stricken, and (perhaps) he would say that they are true persons "because they have the cognitive ability to value themselves." But is cognitive ability the marker of human value? Do the less intelligent have less value?
ââ?¬Å"Jesus tells us to treat others well even if they never treat us well" (114). We are all made in God's image, and Jesus came to pay an infinite price for us because we all have infinite value.
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Murray covers topics about freedom, human dignity, science and faith, religious pluralism, and sexuality, gender, and identity. I really enjoyed reading to this book and highly recommend it!
