The War Against Reality

Make no mistake, our country has been at war for generations now.

A war against reality.

This war has taken on many forms and if we are to draw battle lines, they are not between left and right, Liberal and Conservative, or even average citizens and the ruling class. 

Ultimately, the lines fall between those who humbly embrace reality and those who, in their vanity, rage against it.

Is 2+2 always 4? Do triangles have three sides? Can a boy be a girl? 

This war against reality has been waged since the very foundations of the earth and the creation of our race. 

Will we embrace our God-given identity as creatures? Or will we attempt to be gods and create reality for ourselves?

Our first father, Adam, chose the latter, and it did not lead to life and freedom; it resulted in ruin.

While the war against reality takes many forms, it always includes a war against fathers. 

Why?

Well, the most fundamental reality of our world is the love of a Father for his Son. 

This world is not merely the result of some cosmic accident, which set in motion a series of random, aimless events.

No. 

Our world is the overflow of an eternal love that exists between God the Father and His Son, who desire to display that love and welcome others into their shared delight. 

The very purpose of life itself is to know our Heavenly Father and His Son (John 17:3), and the eternal, infinite, incomprehensible love that they share.

God has ordained the love of earthly fathers for their families to be an instrument of displaying this eternal love. 

Despite what that purple-haired women’s studies prof told you, a father is not a sociological or cultural invention. A father is, or ought to be, a reflection of the deepest truth there is: sacrificial love. 

A father is given by God for the good of his family. He is to provide and protect, to nourish and defend. 

In the battle for our families and our nation, fathers ought to be on the front lines. They ought to be ‘first in, last out’ kind of men. Dads are crucial in the war for reality, so it makes sense that the enemy would attempt to sideline them. 

And this is where we find ourselves:

Fathers have been driven from public life, shamed, mocked, dishonoured, and dismissed.

Masculine moral clarity is derided as chauvinism and bigotry. 

But we must stop caring what the enemy says.

Our resistance against evil must begin with recovering our sacred duty as fathers. We are called to the service of our God, our families, and our nation. And we don’t need permission.