Weekly insights from Chuck Colson and great saints of the past and present

When tolerance replaces truth, chaos, confusion, and widespread uncertainty follow – and all their attendant evils.

“What’s really at issue here is a dramatic shift in the prevailing belief of Western cultural elites; we have come into a postmodern era that rejects the idea of truth itself. If there is no such thing as truth, then Christianity’s claims are inherently offensive and even bigoted against others. Tolerance, falsely defined as putting all propositions on an equal footing – as opposed to giving ideas an equal hearing – has replaced truth.”
-Chuck Colson, The Faith

“But anyone who understands in the Scriptures something other than that intended by them is deceived, although they do not lie. However, as I began to explain, if he is deceived in an interpretation which builds up charity, which is the end of the commandments, he is deceived in the same way as a man who leaves a road by mistake but passes through a field to the same place toward which the road itself leads. But he is to be corrected and shown that it is more useful not to leave the road, lest the habit of deviating force him to take a crossroad or a perverse way.”
-Augustine, On Christian Doctrine

“For more than two hundred years, the profane society, whose members have occupied most positions of leadership and power, have drawn on the leftovers of Christian moral capital. Today, however, the profane society has come to the end of its tether. In their hearts and minds the Christian capital has been used up, and the erstwhile stunning promise of the Enlightenment has turned out an illusion. Their convictions now drop to the ground like so many worn-through rags. They no longer have the ability to make distinctions, to perceive reality, or to deliberate actions with consistency. This is the contemporary spiritual crisis. The place of principles has been taken by mere emotions.”
-Gerhart Niemeyer, “The Decline of the Profane Society”

“Radical Christians will be iconoclasts intent on bringing down the secular towers of Babel, which often wear a religious label. Such Christians will be considered spiritual and even social revolutionaries, for they will be conspicuous in their refusal to pay obedience to the false gods that enthrall a secularized culture.”
-Donald Bloesch, Crumbling Foundations

In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
-Psalm 120:1, 2

For more insight to this subject, get the book, True Truth, by Art Lindsley, from our online store. Or read the article, “Emerging Confusion,” by Charles Colson.

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