The Submerging Truth Movement

Benjamin Bush is a prolific blogger who recently made a foray to the "Jesus Creed" blog, a popular emergent church type forum that supposedly welcomes all views with all openness. What he found is that they aren't exactly so open as to hear views that would--heaven forbid-- perhaps close one's mind on something that is--oh my--true.

I enthusiastically encourage you to check out his eloquent narrative of this adventure. His blog is here, The Politics of Heaven.

In today's Los Angeles Times there was a piece by columnist Joel Stein about how pointless Don Imus really is-- this in light of the recent hypocritical popular culture witch hunt of the guy. Not that I'm an apologist for him, for I feel pretty much the way Stein does.

What is noteworthy is that the postmodern philosophy from which the emergent church movement takes its charge is all about rejection of truth as a weapon used by those who want to increase their power over others. With this in mind it is easy to see why the "Jesus Creed" people would chafe at any humble suggestion by Ben that something may indeed be objectively true. "Ooo, you're implying something that would mean we'd have to cede power to you. Ee-yuck."

The one thing I thought about when hearing the media go nuts about how upset the Rutgers team was over Imus' insensitive remarks was, just how much power do these women give Imus over their lives? Indeed, just how much power does Imus have over all their enablers--all those people who've jumped on the bandwagon to announce how victimized they are about anything that this boorish radio personality could ever say?

The only thing I can think is that the media run with this Imus-Rutgers thing and are successful in stirring up people's codependent passions so they can keep everyone's attention off the things that truly matter. In a very profound way, it is a subtle and insidious tool to stunt truthful considerations.

Wow. The weapons of the World's operatives. They get more and more sophisticated.

Remember how The X-Files used to say, "The truth is out there"? Oh it is. But be careful, because when someone in power--whether a prominent emergent blog or mainstream politically correct police news network--says something that sounds noble and progressive, and that person is contracted with the lucrative World System craftily managed by the media,

It's almost surely not the truth.

At least not truth that is meaningful.

My most recent home page piece gets into the idea of meaningful truth a bit.

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