Truth Ought to Matter

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/opinion/trump-conspiracy-germany-1918.html

Truth ought to matter to Christians ... "I am the way, the truth, and the life" said Jesus ... truth is nothing less than the breath of Jesus inspiring the disciples ... truth, clarity, honesty, insight - are these, then, not the goals, the tools, the means, by which Christians live out their lives? Certainly one doesn't have to be a Christian to know the truth, and to be set free by the truth. God, as I understand God, created the world in such a way that anyone, anywhere, any time, if they but knock, and seek, and ask, will gain the truth. God puts no price on the truth other than a willing heart and an open mind, and perhaps some willingness to bear the truth as Christ did the cross - it's that important, it's that necessary, it's the heart and soul of life. In 1918, Germans told lies to one another, lies crafted and compelled by greed and nationalism and hatred, the seedbed of lies. And these days, we're inundated by lies; lies told by Trump, repeated by FOX News, blasted around the internet like a merry-go-round gone mad, cheered on by QAnon, embraced by the lost and the lonely, taken up by social conservatives who relish the lies of racism, and by evangelicals who believed gawd to be telling them to vote for the victor, for the man of lies, and now cannot fathom their error, their misjudgment, their pride and the loss of power. Evangelicals are incapable of admitting error. 

Truth matters, and those who claim the name of Christ must be sure to make truth their

companion - the truth of the times, and the truth of what has happened in the election. Anything less is a crucifying of Christ anew; killing him as a truth-teller, and embracing the lies of Rome and the Jerusalem elite.

Truth matters ... and thank God for those who tell it ... and especially those historians and pundits who tell the truth when Christians fail in this task. Sadly, it's not the first time that Christians have been on the wrong side of truth, nor will it be the last. But God sees to it that truth-tellers are found all over the place, so the truth can be found, so the truth can be lived. And Christ is pleased.