Posted on 01/21/2025 4:49:53 AM PST by MtnClimber
Truth is not in vogue at the moment. It has been supplanted by tolerance, except for tolerance of the truth, ironically.
Truth, by definition: that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality. God’s truth.
Jesus told the truth. He said, “I am the way, the truth and the life.” He was crucified.
The American Founders told the truth, including that humans are born with inalienable rights granted by their Creator. They were harassed, hunted down, vilified, called traitors, had their homes burned down, etc.
Abraham Lincoln told the truth, including that slavery is a great evil. He was/is, in fact, known as “Honest Abe.” He was assassinated.
Ronald Reagan told the truth: that government is the problem in many instances, that free market systems work best, that the U.S. would prevail and the U.S.S.R. would be left on the ash-heap of history, and that we are no more than one generation away from losing our freedoms, among others. (Hell, it’s happened within the last 4 years.) He was less than an inch away from being assassinated.
Martin Luther King, Jr., told the truth: a person should not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. He was assassinated.
Today, even amidst a plethora of hyperbole, President Donald Trump is telling the big truths: those pertaining to China, the economy, so-called ‘liberals,’ the media, etc. And numerous academics, “entertainers,” and assorted statists, anarchists and elite power brokers/takers openly and endlessly fantasize about his demise.
Tucker Carlson often tells the truth, dares to “speak truth to power” in the preferred vernacular of 1960s liberals. He and his family have been repeatedly threatened.
George Orwell once noted: “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak
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The left calls truth a lie and they call lies the truth. Woe unto them.
100%. Great post. Amen!
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