What can a breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth?

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Men have forgotten God.

That's the reason that was given by author and dissident Alexander Sultanaten,

after 50 years of studying and writing about the history of the Russian Revolution,

which led to the death of over

60 million people. In fact, he continued, and I quote, what is more the events of the Russian

revolution can only be understood now at the end of the century against the backdrop of what

has since occurred in the rest of the world? What emerges here is a process of universal significance,

and if I were caught upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century,

here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again,

men have forgotten God. Well, if his analysis were extended to today, to include the cultural chaos

that has emerged in the years after the Cold War into the first decades of the 21st century,

it might be this. And forgetting God, they abandoned truth. The abandonment of truth

took the form of increasingly bizarre demands, especially within academia, government, and media,

to accommodate what were obvious lies and myths and falsehoods. According to Romans I, the primary

consequence of rejecting the creator is, in fact, to believe lies about reality and about morality

and about the human person. In our day, these lies are often sold to us with

demands of inclusion and equity and with the promise of being free, free from traditional

moral constraints, even free from the restrictions imposed by reality itself. Now, those promises

have proven to be as false as the lies themselves. Instead of freedom, we've now built

ourselves a world with epidemic levels of unhappiness and isolation, not to mention the increased

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