“Live Your Truth” is a Dangerous Lie!

Introduction

The other day we were sitting at a friend’s house talking and one of our friends who is from another culture mentioned how people are often comfortable talking about God + spirituality, but when you mention the truth that Jesus is the only way to God, division happens and people often abandon you.

And it got me thinking:

Truth is offensive and it will often be divisive. Are we ready to stand with it anyways?

It can be tempting to avoid truth or water it down like maybe focusing conversations on “God” and “spirituality” without mentioning Jesus. Or avoiding certain topics all together.

Because let’s be honest,  it’s comfortable when people agree with you…

But here is the thing:

Jesus did not come to bring peace, He came to bring a sword: truth.

Truth divides people.

Will we honor that? Or cower and choose comfort?

Comforting People with Lies

I thought about this in my own life and how this is becoming true in my career field and how a few months ago, I gained a lot of followers on one  of my platforms after a famous woman named Candace Owens shared one of my posts on gender dysphoria.

That attention came with a lot of hate but also allowed me to connect with other medical professionals with the same concerns.  At the time, a mental health psychologist who is a Christian reached out to me and asked how I got courage to speak out about certain things.

She said she agreed with me and knew affirming these people was harming them, but she struggled with speaking up as a provider because she thought people would judge her as unethical.

And my question is:

Who are we allowing to define ethics and truth?And where are they getting their information?

Opinion or fact?

Is it ethical for someone to attempt to force me to lie to another person and unethical for me to stand up for physiological truth and refuse to lie to someone?

Forcing me to lie is something that goes against my integrity as a provider, it is unethical.

As medical professionals we are often taught to “do no harm.”

And allowing someone to pursue care that is destroying their body because we do not want to “hurt their feelings” is doing harm.

It is a lie to affirm someone’s identity when it is not based on a physiological truth.

It is a lie.

Just like it is a lie to allow someone to believe that being obese is not harmful when the psychological truth is that adipose tissue is endocrine tissue which means it impacts your hormones. A small example would be excessive fat tissue in a man influencing his estrogen levels, which influences his insulin levels, and ultimately influences his testosterone.

Excess fat can lead to low testosterone and chips away at male characteristics, leading to low libido, anxiety, depression, and more. 

Excessive adipose tissue also impacts neurotransmitters in both men + women.

My point is telling the truth is now being seen as “unethical and unkind.” and this is dangerous because, now, as a medical professional, I’m being told it is unethical and actually “fat phobic” to educate someone on obesity…among other things. 

Sorry but by what authority is this based on?

Because it is not truth.

Again, why is it “unethical” for me to tell the truth, but ethical for me to lie?

Why was it ethical to force me to go through sensitivity training on how to care for someone who is choosing to destroy their body because I was seemingly “uninformed.”

Why are we not asking more questions?

Like:

Are we giving certain people too much authority simply because they are in charge of  educational institutions and handing out licenses + certifications, while also redefining ethics and truth behind the scenes?

“Live Your Truth” is a Lie

These same people often loudly proclaim:

“Live your truth!”

But in the same breath say, “but not if you are a Christian. Your truth is too offensive.”

Christians:

“Live your truth” is a dangerous ideology to buy into.

What if someone’s truth is to murder another person, or rape a child, or burn an animal?

Where does the line stop and where do we draw the line on “truth” and “morality” when it is based on someone’s feelings + opinions?

Some say, “the line is drawn when you harm someone else.”

And my question then is, who defines “harm?”

What if in the mind of a man sexually abusing a child, their “truth” is that they are not actually harming the child because the child receives pleasure from it?

Who is right, and who is wrong, and by what authority?

What is moral and immoral and by what authority?

As Christians, I think we have to be so careful not to buy into the lie that ethics + morality = being kind and affirming someone and agreeing with someone simply because something is their “truth.”

Part of ethics is honoring right and wrong, morality + immorality, + truth + error.

My integrity + ethics as a practitioner means not lying to someone just because the truth is perceived to be unkind or may hurt their feelings.

I can be kind and loving,  while also telling you the truth.

I can be kind and loving while also not affirming a decision I know is based on a lie and is destructive to someone’s body.

This may make me appear to look “unethical” to those in the world, but I do not care because my identity + worth + value as a provider are not rooted in their opinions.

There’s coming a time when truth will be straight up offensive in every career field.

Will we cower in fear of being abandoned?

Or stand in truth?