In a Post-Truth World Justice Dies

Pontius Pilate famously asked Jesus the question ‘What is Truth?’, a question particularly relevant in these times when it is frequently said that we live in a ‘post-Truth’ age.

A major characteristic of the socio-spiritual cultural Vacuum that has formed since the loss of the Judeo-Christian ‘Built-in-operating-system’ (BIOS), and its moral guidelines for western society, is the consequent evacuation of ‘Truth’ from the public square and social discourse. Indeed, our times have been described as ‘post-Truth’ because of that evacuation. Further, because he is Truth, post-Truth equals post-God.

From a Christian perspective this is of particular concern because a major characteristic of God is that he is the (singular) ‘Truth’, and so Christians are called to be agents of the One who is Truth, in whose Image we are made. That then links to a second essential characteristic of God. That is the issue of Justice, for another aspect of his nature is that he is perfectly Just. So a Christian is also required to be an agent of his Justice. Truth and Justice are therefore intimately linked, such that in a post-Truth, that is a post-God, world Justice dies.

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How the West Was Shaped – The Bible

‘Today there is a widespread embarrassment about confronting the role of the Christian church in the formation of the Western world… Yet there is a strong case to be made that our conception of society and of a just legal system cannot be fully understood apart from that debt. When we ignore it, we fail to understand ourselves’

‘Today there is a widespread embarrassment about confronting the role of the Christian church in the formation of the Western world… Yet there is a strong case to be made that our conception of society and of a just legal system cannot be fully understood apart from that debt. When we ignore it, we fail to understand ourselves’

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