Telling the Truth in a Post-Truth World, Part B | John MacArthur

And that question, though, is posed against the backdrop of what I suppose we could say is a post-truth world, a post-truth world. Even in a truth world – going back maybe a few decades – even when truth seemed to matter to people, no one really liked to be lied to, but most people found some lies necessary for their personal fulfillment; that’s just life. There are certain things that you want to lie about, that’s part of being a fallen human being. If you’re son of Satan, if you’re a child of Satan, Satan’s a killer, Satan’s a liar, you’re going to be known for lying.

And everybody seems to be able to find a measure of comfort with certain lies. That was true in a truth world. In a post-truth world, the lies have now reached epic proportions to the point that you can’t believe anybody who says anything. Whether you’re talking to a kindergartener or a congressman, you can’t believe anything anyone says because truth doesn’t matter anymore. You can go to a university and you can sit in a class and you can have a Ph.D. as a professor, and unless you’re talking about some kind of hard science, an obvious nature fact, natural law, you have no reason to believe that what you’re hearing is actually true, because truth isn’t as important to this generation as certain other things, like shifting power.

So we live in a post-truth world. The question is not, “Do we need some lies to sort of cover our weak spots?” Do we need some lies to find some personal satisfaction, personal fulfillment? Are there some things we need to lie about just to kind of get along and advance ourselves? That’s not the question in a post-truth world. The question in a post-truth world is, “Why would we lie, because there’s really nothing to cover, because everything is okay?”