As a student, I was working at a summer job in a farm machinery factory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. We were in the lunch room, and I had an opportunity to discuss my faith with another worker who was a couple of years older than I was. After I shared what was on my heart, he responded: "I have a lot of admiration for you!"

My heart leapt at the thought that maybe I had found a kindred spirit. "Why?" I asked. "Are you a believer?"

"Oh, no!" he responded, " I just think that it's great that you have such a strong faith. Whatever you believe, man, that's your reality! And we all need something to believe in. Doesn't matter what it is."

This was the first time I had heard such bafflegab, and it threw me for a loop. I tried to pin him with some questions that would undo his bad logic. "You mean to say, if I believe that lightbulb up there is my mother, that would become reality for me? What if I believe you're a poached egg? Does that make it true?" He just smiled at me, as if he was receiving some sort of higher enlightenment, and left me to argue with myself.

In those days, I didn't think this kind of relativism would come to much. Now, the belief that reality itself is dependent on how we perceive and view things has exploded onto the scene. In other words, if no one is around to hear it, there is no sound when the tree falls. In fact, if no one is around to observe it, there is no tree. It becomes quite absurd. And the cry goes out from every corner of society: "There is no such thing as Absolute Truth" or ‘your truth is your truth, and my truth is my truth’. Any attempt to make a truth claim is dismissed as having an ill motive or a power play. Never mind the point. That is incidental.

Most objections to truth are self-defeating but it doesn’t matter anymore. For the most part, people are not swayed by rational arguments. (Were they ever)? I am told that Nietzsche and Marx both became atheists, not due to intellectual problems with Theism or Christianity, but because of the terrible examples of the Christianity in their worlds.

I do not believe we should leave our rational faculty behind when it comes to matters of faith. Otherwise it would be a blind leap of faith after all. I do believe that in these days more than ever, we should understand and follow the words of the Teacher who said, “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

Unless we believers act convincingly like we believe, very few will care how rational our arguments are. The way we live and relate to one another tells others what we really believe.