Truth Matters

"Disgusted by the right's lust for absolutes, many of us retreated from talk of objective truth and embraced the philosopher Richard Rorty's call for an "ironic" stance toward our own liberal sympathies. We stopped caring about whether we were "right" and thought more about what makes the world go round. That made us feel at once more hip and less naïve.

"The events of the last three years have put the lie to that strategy." -- Philosopher Michael Lynch

Fourteen Years Ago

Alexander Men spoke these words:

Christ calls humanity to bring about the divine ideal. Only near-sighted people can suppose that Christianity has seen its time. Christianity has only taken its first, I would say timid, steps in human history. To this day many of Christ's words are incomprehensible because we are still moral and spiritual Neanderthal men. The gospel arrow is aimed towards eternity, and that which we call Christian history is in many ways a series of clumsy and unsuccessful attempts to bring Christianity about.

The next morning, walking to the train to take him to church, he was struck down with an ax.

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