Do Americans know the Truth when they see it?

Coach is Right ^ | 01/08/16 | Karen Lees

[Oldpuppymax]

“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” – St. Augustine

Moral clarity is the ability to see things as they really are. This type of clarity is only possible when one believes what is true.

America lost her way when she chose the lies of moral relativism over the moral clarity of truth. For to dispose of truth in favor of moral relativism creates moving targets of the standards by which society must agree to live. If we cannot call something “evil,” how can we refer to anything as “good”? We can’t have it both ways.

Isn’t it evil to become so lazy that we neglect searching for the truth? Isn’t it evil to tolerate a lie and immoral to allow others to think for us? Do we reject truth when it makes us feel “uncomfortable”?

How does one know the truth and where does it come from? Certainly not from the news or social media, from public schools or universities, or from our government.

A Williams College student group hosts a lecture series called “Uncomfortable Learning.” For one of the talks, the group invited an accomplished, qualified and well-known guest speaker. The event was cancelled just days before because the group learned the expert’s viewpoint might make students feel “uncomfortable”.

Wasn’t that the point of the lecture series in the first place? Are we teaching students to operate solely on feeling and not fact?

At Washington State University, a professor told her students in the “Women and Popular Culture” class they would “risk failure for the semester” if they used the terms “male” or “female” because she considered them gross generalizations, derogatory and oppressive language.

Suddenly the words referring to gender...

[rlmorel]

I agree with the author.

Moral Relativism (and all other relativisms) are an evil, corrosive cancer.

And this business about “microagression” and “safe spaces” and all that baloney...

We are creating a nation that will crumble at the slightest touch of adversity.

[FatherofFive]

Half the people are of below average intelligence. 47% are democRats. 57% believe in Global Warming. 55% believe killing a human baby is not wrong. There is a lot of overlap, but I would guess 75% of the population do not know the Truth.

[glennaro]

I think most people know — deep down — what the “truth” is; but then they mold it, rationalize it and contort it to what they wish it could be. However, although it made take a while, reality (i.e., the “truth”) always prevails.

[gunnyg]

ReaL Americans OR...AINOs?
strictly speaking, yes; otherwise...not @ all.
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Just Plain DickG(JPD)
aka: Gunny G
Semper FIDELIS!
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[I want the USA back]

Half do, half don’t. The half that don’t vote democrat.

[Ouderkirk]

Most people know deep down what the truth is. The problem becomes when you give voice to that you are beaten down with xenophobe, homophobe, racist, sexist, islamophobe, etc.

You run the risk of having your life ruined, becoming a pariah in your community, losing your job and being unable to secure any other work no matter how demeaning.

It is perilous for anyone to speak the truth without serious repercussions for them.

Until that paradigm changes...

[aquila48]

Post Modernism is all the rage in academia. Critical Theory, Deconstruction it’s about destroying all order, all belief systems. Truth no longer exists, even logic itself is found to be illogical.

It’s creating an insane, chaotic world whose results are plain to see.

[glennaro]

What you write of course is absolutely true. That's why speaking the truth most often requires courage ... sometimes extraordinary courage.

This paradigm is not new ... the Founders certainly were subjected to it and were brave people throughout recorded history.

That is, there have been and will always be bullies.

[Albion Wilde]

Speaking of lions:

[5th MEB]

I have been accused more times, by more people in my life than I can count, that I only see the world in black and white.
They are quite correct; there is only black and white, there is NO gray.
There is only TRUE and FALSE.
There is only ACCURATE and INACCURATE.
There is only TRUTH and LIE.
There are no DEGREES of one or the other; there is only one or the other.
The term “MORAL RELATIVISM” is itself a lie, exposed by the very term RELATIVE.
It is true; that the GOOD can sometimes do what some would consider bad against the bad in defense of the good, but it is always in DEFENSE of the GOOD.
Relativism just turns it's back on the bad, and pretends it doesn't exist.
This does not mean that forgiveness cannot be granted, but it must be earned through thought, action, and penance.