What
is the riskiest thing you have ever done because of your faith in
Jesus? (Serendipity Bible 10th Anniversary Edition,
page 1425).
As
animals, humans have inherited a strong tendency towards dressing the
truth beneath camouflage. We feel a strong drive to hide the truth,
to prevaricate. It's almost as if the more strongly we experience
something as real the more the need to pretend it doesn't exist.
Prevarication thus becomes not second nature so much as first nature.
This is especially true in matters of sex. It is my belief that
homosexual dreams and occasional sexual arousal in the presence of
beloved animals is not uncommon. But to discuss this with any candor
is taboo. It is my belief that Americans have a special
responsibility to brainstorm the truth. We, after all, have free
speech accompanied by a Christian tradition that holds truth in high
regard—not just spiritual truth in elevated abstract terms, but
experiential truth in ordinary daily life. Spiritual truth and
experiential truth are indivisible and are of the same cloth.
Therefore in America we are ethically obliged by integrity to explore
the truth in an innovative brainstorming manner in which we say
“Yes....and......”** rather than to brutally repress the truth in
a drive of camouflage.
Jesus
ushered in a new order, and America's free speech was a direct
product of it. The animal drive to camouflage the truth runs head-on
into ethical demands for integrity and veracity. Will we assume the
risks inherent in spiritual and political freedom? Will we set aside
camouflage and duplicity and more fully realize our greater
legacy—that of simple candor? It is my firm belief that this is
our emerging trajectory.
**For
an interesting discussion of overcoming psychological saboteurs see
Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine. This reference on
page 89.
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