Letter to the editor: Rejecting today's 'reality'

At 67 years old, I recently discovered that my entire reality is based upon misinformation. I have been living a lie.

I was told that my masculinity is toxic. Doing the things that a traditional man has always done is now considered harmful. I thought that strength, courage and assertiveness were positive traits, but now they’re deemed oppressive and must be stopped.

I thought there were immutable truths accepted without question, unchanging universal facts of reality. Now I’m told that truth is relative and my perception of it is offensive to others.

I thought there were only two sexes, male and female. I believed the Bible as inerrant, “So God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Now I understand that a biological man can become a woman and vice versa. And it gets even stranger.

Even the Holy Bible and creation narrative are rejected. The entire cosmic miracle of unfathomable complexity and diversity is only a product of natural evolution. Everything is just the result of time and chance.

And I never realized that I am inherently racist and the modest success I achieved was predicated upon my white privilege. I always thought that I just worked hard all my life and treated everyone with respect and dignity. I judged everyone by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

Thankfully, being grounded by eternal truth for my entire life, I cannot be swayed by such lunacy.

Steven Crichley

Carrick