Oscar Gilroy

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The only truth modern society seems willing to defend as objective is that there is no Truth. What I have seen and heard is that this precept is mostly used to justify ever increasing permissiveness of behavior and attitude at the expense of traditional morality; a false belief or sinful desire need no longer be justified on its perceived merits, but simply by dismissing the authority to claim that it is wrong against an objective standard of what is Good and True. In the video below, the ever awesome Michael Voris expands on this theme with his usual bluntness and clarity. Yes, the value of my witness is largely anecdotal, but by way of preface I want to add to what he says here that every single time someone has argued to me against the notion that Right and Wrong exist, it has been in order to exculpate themselves against responsibility for some existing or planned evil. I’ve said similar things myself in an earlier time; and so it should never be forgotten that this temptation, to take the knowledge and judgment of good and evil into our own hands, is the origin of every misery.

Perhaps this was how he eased his conscience. For the time being, all seemed to be going well. Jerusalem remained calm. At a later date, though, it would become clear that peace, in the final analysis, cannot be established at the expense of truth.

What is truth? Pilate was not alone in dismissing this question as unanswerable and irrelevant for his purposes. Today too, in political argument and in discussion of the foundations of law, it is generally experienced as disturbing. Yet if man lives without truth, life passes him by; ultimately he surrenders the field to whoever is the stronger.

Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: Part Two

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