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Mud Fence Ugly, November 29th, 2023. Introduction.

It is commonplace for traditionalists to describe the well-balanced life as built on the foundation

stones of truth, goodness, and beauty.

The structural support seems intuitive to us now, or at least to some of us,

but we also have to budget for the fact that we are living at a time

when the culture built on these things is now coming down around our ears.

Not only is the culture generally doing this, but our evangelical Christian subculture is also coming

down at much the same rate.

For a time a few decades back, it seemed that evangelicals were doing a decent

job defending the idea of a fixed and objective truth. If it was true on Monday that Jesus

rose from the dead, it was also true on Friday. The same thing could be said about goodness. If abortion was a

wicked thing on Monday, it was also a wicked thing on Friday. The place where we struggle, however, was in the realm of

aesthetics. If someone condemned your favorite band for producing as much treacle as they did,

the response was frequently a relativistic who's to say response,

instead of any appeal to objective aesthetic standards.

That was challenged enough back in the day.

But now we are all living in a morass of radical subjectivism,

doctrinal, ethical, and aesthetic all at once.

For those who still have their wits about them, this means that we are all now staring straight

at the consequences of our own subjective relativism.

We can see far more than the fact that it is quote unquote in error. In addition to being erroneous, we can also see

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