Dear Editor,

The importance of truth is highlighted in a morally degenerating world in which each person upholds his/her own standards of right and wrong, whether it be on abortion rights, sexual alternatives that normalise gay orientation, gender equality, or any emerging branches of human aberration.

Philosophers have long delighted in the warped pleasure of speculative truth. It is endless surmising that ends in no tangible or concrete position. This is observed in many churches today that promote a liberation theology which embraces scripturally repugnant views like same sex marriages, adultery, fornication, gambling, smoking, and an endless list of biblically disallowed practices.

Maybe it was the contemporary philosophical influences of the day that inspired Pilate’s response to Jesus, “What is truth?” (John 18:38) Yet, if truth were some kind of nebulous reality, why would Jesus say, “You will learn the truth and the truth will set you free”? (John 8:31-32 )

The current view of standards and truth has certainly not improved the world; instead, it has plunged it into a deep decisive state of affairs as seen in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the adversarial position that exists between the United States and places like Myanmar, from where I’m writing. Foreigners are disliked, especially Americans and Australians. They don’t like the American dollar, and it is becoming very difficult to use a US credit card here. The only vehicles observed on the streets are Japanese.

Thus, the relative views of truth and standard, even though allowing for freedom on the surface, becomes only a mirage that enslaves us to further vanity while denying and frustrating our common humanity and a united world of brotherhood.

Homer Sylvester

Myanmar

homersylvester3@gmail.com