Once upon a time, Western societies understood truth as something objective—something grounded in God and reality, rather than something each individual could invent for themselves, regardless of the facts.
Concepts such as “religious pluralism” and “moral relativism” helped change that. The argument for these ideas is often presented as tolerance and inclusivity: that different people can choose different gods, beliefs, and moral frameworks, and society should simply respect them all, regardless of who they worship and how they worship.
But once religious belief becomes entirely a matter of personal preference, and individuals are free to choose their own ultimate authority, on what basis can we meaningfully object when they choose their own truth and reality?
If truth is no longer something discovered but something personally constructed within the mind, then objective claims about reality, morality, humanity, and biological sex become impossible to define and defend.
The individual has become the final authority in the world of their own making.
“Choose your own god” has gradually become “choose your own truth.” And once truth became something you could choose, it was only a short step to the notion that you could choose your own identity, even when reality itself says otherwise.
The irony is that a culture which abandoned the idea of an objective Creator didn’t abandon religion. It relocated religious authority from God to the self. Consequently, the result is a society in which subjective feelings can be treated as more authoritative than biological reality, and personal identity has become something that others are expected to affirm regardless of what is actually true.
Today, you can be arrested, taken to court, and fined if you do not affirm the “realities” constructed in the minds of other people. The facts of reality have become second to the dictates of the relativists.
But this identity debate is far greater than a dispute about pronouns and terminology. It’s the logical end of a much broader social transformation. It’s ultimately about the replacement of objective truth—or more specifically, God—with personal authority.
Once there’s no higher authority above the individual, there is ultimately no reason the individual can’t declare, “This is my truth, and it is no less true than your own.”
And if truth is whatever we choose it to be, and we can be whoever we choose and believe whatever we wish, then the worldview framing our society is no longer Christianity.
The worldview framing society is now indistinguishable from the mentality of an inmate in an asylum—convinced that reality is whatever his mind tells him it is. But the disconnection between the mind and reality was never something to celebrate or validate. It was always understood as a posture of the mad.