Get Out of The Kitchen
Johnathan Freedland has written a provocative piece in The Guardian. He laments the post-truth world in which he now finds himself living. He shows himself to be a small-"p" post-modernist yearning after solid foundations for his opinions. While he is most likely not aware of it, he is really yearning for a Christian world-and-life view.
Like most of his cadre or cohort he is absolutely sure that the Christian faith is a mere myth. The necessary implication of that rejection is that everything then becomes uncertain or relative. Even hard sciences, like quantum mechanics, leave secularists with profound agnosticism. Does matter act like waves or particles or both at the same time? We are told "all of the above", and we are also told by those-who-tell that they have no idea how or why, and it is likely they never will. It just does not make sense--at least to someone who has denies the all-creating, all-governing God. If you are not a Christian, like it or not, you have Wittgenstein or Foucault or both as your father(s). So, stop trying to make sense of things.
Consequently, Freedland's lament over the growing dominance of post-truth perspectives is a bit silly really. It is a "wake up and smell the flowers" moment. It's like plucking out ones eyes, then lamenting bitterly that one is blind.
When Freedland was in a latently christianised phase in earlier days, he was deeply troubled over being confronted with Holocaust Denial.
