Lies, Damn Lies and a Spirit of Confusion
A recent essay in The Catholic World Report by Anthony Esolen is a must read. Esolen is one of the editors of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, one of the best journals in Christendom, in my humble opinion. He takes on the issue of living in a world of lies and half truths, one of the hallmarks of a fallen world.

I'm linking to it above for comment. Please comment if you feel led. 

I've blogged previously on the issue of "language bending" and the curious charge that a hater is someone who supports marriage between one man and one woman, of which I am guilty. I am also not a big fan of unrepentant sin practitioners who require me to alter the bible to lower the bar on some sins because they are "are the way I was made". In an earlier blog post, I mention that I was made to sin, also. I try my best to admit my sins, confess them and do penance for their persistence in my life. It would be politic for me to claim that I was obviously made this way and start a club of unrepentant lustful, prideful men, but I've not had enough spiritual self-delusion to do so, praise God. And, to be honest, I don't like lustful, prideful men, even though I am one. I won't seek their company, unless I can encourage their repentance and pursuit of God.

I believe strongly that Pilate's confusion about what is truth when it stood before him is evidence of the persistence of the primacy of lies on earth. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life", and meant it. Where two or three are gathered together in His name, there is often truth in abundance, shared in accountability and in confession. Truth is god's way and leads to eternal life. To bend or distort language, to lie and obfuscate, is the worldly way.

Lord give us the discernment to see lies and to oppose them with truth in love.