The difference between the story the media tells us and the truth
by Will Jones, Faith and Politics:
The media has a narrative, one it shares with much of our political class and cultural elite. We all know what it is. It goes something like this:
Drugs – harmless.
Gambling – fun.
Casual sex – normal.
Abortion – trivial.
Marriage – passé.
Adultery – no comment.
Divorce – inevitable.
Homosexuality – sacred.
Transgenderism – why not?
Men – domineering, probably violent.
Women – oppressed, permanently.
Children – expensive, bad for the environment.
Family – however it comes.
Disabled people – prenatally screened out.
Old people – outstaying welcome.
White people – discredited.
Immigration – always beneficial.
Border control – racist.
Climate change – indisputable.
Markets – exploitative.
Wealth – for taxing.
State – benign.
Freedom – cover for hate.
Diversity – never enough.
Conservatives – bigots.
Christians – benighted.
Muslims – victims.
Brexit – nativist fantasy.
Democracy – overrated.
Truth – flexible.
This is the filter through which most of our elites see the world and present it to us.
What ties it all together is a post-Christian, secularist vision of the world centred on the individual and the self and the identities it creates for itself. Truth is relative to the individual and anyone who tries to say otherwise, who asserts some absolute moral standard, must be silenced and their views suppressed.
Some of it is fatalist. Some is statist. Some hedonistic. Some mere convenience. But all of it runs counter to the Christian vision of human beings as bearing the image of their Creator and subject to His laws for their good.
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