Unfunny Circus of Postmodernism

Spirituality Column #13
February 6, 2007
Current in Carmel (IN) newspaper

Truth Be Told, This Circus Isn’t Funny
By Bob Walters

The postmodern circus of man-made truth and intelligence has quite a ringmaster in Princeton professor Peter Singer.

The New Yorker magazine hails the Australian-born atheist as the “most influential” philosopher alive. Believers of any God-based faith owe this guy an incomparable debt of gratitude for his commitment to moral shock therapy and trans-species equality.

If Singer can’t inspire intellectual return-fire from the God-inspired trenches, then truth and morality are already dead. Study up, my friends; this fellow is giving us a run for our spiritual money.

Singer, among other things the intellectual father of the animal rights movement, presents accidental philosophical comedy of the first order; grand theater of the absurd. Morality is no more than a test of consciousness; an alert dog has greater moral standing than a healthy infant human.

Blue-state liberals eat that nonsense up because Singer effectively removes truth from intelligence and responsibility. The sliding scale of an eloquent opinion replaces truth, regardless of what 2,000 years of Christian thought has taught us about the divinity of truth and morality.

A Christian believer lives with the beating truth of Christ in our heart. The resurrected Christ is our specific and personal link with the Creator God. Absolute Truth exists in Christ and – you can look it up – nowhere else. Christ is the only recorded incidence of God become man.

Examine all the belief systems you can find. Truth is discussed in just about all of them, but Christ makes the only claim on record of actually being the Truth.

Singer’s brain just isn’t a fair match against God’s intellect, Christ’s truth, and our freedom in the Holy Spirit. Let’s not let absolute truth get sucked away by the moral vacuum of postmodernism.

Truth in Christ? Truth in philosophers?

Live Savior? Dead philosophers?

Choose wisely. Study up.

Walters, a Carmel resident, likes his steak medium rare. Contact him at rlwcom@aol.com