Western culture embraces confusion as a virtue and decries clarity as a sin, especially with regards to sexuality, morality, identity, and religion. Saving Truth by Abdu Murray describes how we arrived at this stage and provides winsome arguments and touching stories to offer clarity to a culture that rejects but desperately needs it.
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Western culture embraces confusion as a virtue and decries clarity as a sin, especially with regards to sexuality, morality, identity, and religion. Saving Truth by Abdu Murray describes how we arrived at this stage and provides winsome arguments and touching stories to offer clarity to a culture that rejects but desperately needs it.
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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!