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Sunday Essay: The War on Reality

How our culture chose fantasy over truth.

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October 12, 2025

Romans 1:25: “because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.”

It started with a whisper in the garden, and it hasn’t stopped since. The question that began every war wasn’t political but theological: “Did God really say?” That moment marked the first exchange of reality for fantasy, the first time humanity chose imagination over obedience and illusion over truth. We went from walking with God to rewriting His Word. From obedience to imagination. From reality to fantasy. Every cultural deception since then has echoed that ancient lie.

The serpent still whispers, and the world still listens.

The modern world repeats that whisper. Every denial of truth, every attempt to redefine creation, is another verse in the same rebellion.

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