
“The belief that truth is purely subjective is a far greater threat than any other because that will strike at the core of our reasoning, and ultimately to our ability to choose between right and wrong,” asserted American politician and social media influencer Nick Freitas to a crowd of young Republicans at the University of California, Berkeley earlier this month. “I have never bought in to this truly ridiculous notion that truth is subjective.”
Subjectivism is the belief that reality is not a firm absolute, but something which can be altered by the consciousness of the perceiver. Objectivity is the only way to determine what is true, Freitas rightly argued. And on this point fellow Christians Matt Walsh and Tucker Carlson likewise asserted that objective truth exists and that we must agree that there ‘is’ a truth.
Unfortunately, when many Christians on the Right correctly assert that Truth can only be determined objectively, their definition of ‘objective’ is far from being so. Continue reading »






