I was thinking about going and finding an old editorial I wrote for the school newspaper several years back so I could be lazy and not post anything new, but this issue has been gnawing at my brain for awhile, so I will attempt to briefly disect it.
In today's culture it is very apparent that one of the worst "burns" out there is to be called closed minded. Want to win an argument? Beat your opponent over the head by calling them close minded. Every single onlooker will gasp in awe at how dumb your opponent is for being so ignorant to your point of view.
But honestly, if you call someone closed minded because he refuses to see things the way do, aren't you doing the same thing? Are you trying to see his view, or are you just trying to get your shots in while you can because you're upset at being "offended"? See, the thing is, if you weren't being ignorant in the first place, you'd have no reason to call someone else closed minded. So, what we have here is a fine and dandy example of the pot calling the kettle black.
Let's extend this into the land of Christendom. Christians are some of the biggest goats out there for receiving the "closed minded" label. We are considered closed minded and ignorant because we stand for truth. Not just a truth, but THE Truth. And this truth is offensive to some. Christ told us to expect to be rebuked (Luke 6:22) for His sake. So while we shouldn't be suprised when those who disagree with us resort to labeling us closed minded, the irony is that it is those who disagree with the truth of The Bible that are closed minded and ignorant.
While the humanist may claim to be objective, how can one really be objective when they are relying on false truth to "objectively" observe the world? The honest truth is, there is no objectivity outside of God's truth; none whatsoever. So, we should never fear that oh so scary (not really) label of being ignorant or closed minded because we can be assured in our knowledge that the truth of Christ gives us the only true objectivity that exists.
"Objectivity's the myth of plenty who doubt His truth within their soul" - Five Iron Frenzy
1 comment:
Hey, J, glad to see you're blogging. It's a great way to get thoughts out and should certainly provoke a few comments now and again.
It's interesting to me that there are really two different kinds of attacks on truth: one is that there is no truth (this is the newer one, I think) and the other is that God's truth isn't. The older produces the newer, I think.
The attack on truth is gradual: at first we are told that God's truth doesn't align with our understanding of the universe (something we've known for thousands of years, incidentally). So we go in search of another, only to find out that there isn't one. Ergo, truth does not exist.
We're seeing a similar thing in regards to gay marriage, I think—the first step is to redefine the concept of marriage, and the second is to get rid of it altogether. (Well, we won't get rid of it; it's just that the definition will be so general that it will have no meaning.)
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