By Andy Hauter Early America was overwhelmingly shaped by Anglo-Protestant culture. The legal assumptions behind the Constitution — property rights, common law, Christian morality — were deeply rooted in English tradition. However, the Constitution itself does not limit its…

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“The idea that we’re going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews, just understand … that’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here,…

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And His disciples began questioning Him as to what this parable might be. And He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, in order that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.”

~ Luke 8:9–10 NASB

What is interesting about Jesus’ explanation as to why He spoke in parables is that they are given so that the remaining non-believers would not understand. I am convinced that the reason people believe in false narratives is that in our fallen nature, we enjoy being lied to. This fault hearkens back to original sin, and the story of the serpent in the garden who tempted the man and woman saying, “Your eyes will be opened. For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). From the beginning, human beings have always desired to spin their own truth. Yet there is also a yearning to return to the original story — the metanarrative that will explain everything correctly.

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