John 18:38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
Occasionally, it is difficult to know the truth due to bias. Pilate was thrust into a situation of judging an innocent man, based on a predisposed prejudice of a group of people, driven by their own selfish agenda. In desperation, the Roman governor of Judea lamented, “What is truth?”
Recently, I had the same unique reaction to a partial quote from a speech of a current world leader. Although a tiny part of his complete statement was referenced, yet his address was not entirely printed by the American press. I was curious. After a lengthy search, I finally found the same televised speech with the English caption included at the bottom. So, for three minutes, I sat typing the entire text of the speech… which the American media refused to print. Can you guess why? Well, it has something to do with Pilate’s question, “What is truth?” Below, I would like to offer this same speech for your perusal. These are the man’s actual words because I re-copied them from the speech myself, and that’s the “truth!”
“…We see that many Euro-Atlantic states have taken the way where they deny or reject their own roots, including their Christian roots which form the basis of Western Civilization. In these countries the moral basis and any traditional identity are being denied – national, religious, cultural, and even gender identities are being denied or relativized. There, politics treat a family with many children as equal to a homosexual partnership; faith in God is equal to faith in Satan, The excesses and exaggerations of Political Correctness in these countries indeed leads to serious consideration for the legitimization of parties that promote the propaganda of pedophilia. The people in many European States are actually ashamed of their religious affiliations and are indeed frightened to speak about them. Christian holidays and celebrations are abolished or “neutrally” renamed, as if one were ashamed of those Christian holidays. With this method one hides away the deeper moral value of these celebrations. And these countries try to force this model onto other countries, globally. I am deeply convinced that this is a direct way to the degradation and primitivization of culture. This leads to deeper demographic and moral crisis in the West. What can be a better evidence for the moral crisis of a human society that the loss of its reproductive function? And today, nearly all “developed” Western countries cannot survive reproductively, not even with the help of migrants. Without the moral values that are rooted in Christianity and other world religions, without rules and moral values which have formed and been developed over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity by becoming brutes. And we think it is right and natural to defend and preserve these moral Christian values. One has to respect the right of every minority to self-determination, but at the same time there cannot and must not be any doubt about the rights of the majority.
Edwin Woolsey’s family has lived in Shannon, Texas, and Howell counties since 1860. He taught 31 years at Missouri public schools and is currently the pastor of a small country congregation at Pilgrim Rest Community Church. Follow him on Twitter at @edwinwoolsey.