When Society Replaces Truth With Ideology, Children Pay the Price

As you read this, you will have three options.

The first is that you can continue to believe you are a meaningless accident in a universe where everything came from nothing, where you evolved from primordial goo, and where existence has no higher purpose beyond survival and self-invention. You can ignore the signs of intelligent design. You can dismiss ancient texts that describe creation. You can even disregard the archaeological evidence that continues to support the historical reliability of Scripture. If that is your worldview, much of what I write here will not resonate with you. You will be left with only the biological argument, which may or may not have any impact.

In the second scenario you may believe in evolution as a purposeless process, not guided by design, and still choose to read this with an open mind. If you do, you may walk away with more questions than answers. If that’s you, I would encourage you to have a conversation with someone of faith later, or even reach out to me. These are not small questions. They are the deepest questions a human being can ask.

The third option is that you may already be a man or woman of faith. You may already know that we were created in the image of the One True God, and that the distinctions between man and woman are divine, intentional, and woven into creation itself. If that is you, then I hope this serves as a conviction: it is time to stop whispering truth and start proclaiming it. It is time to demand real compassion for those who find themselves struggling with confusion, distress, or false beliefs about who they are.

In this blog, I will refer to the Tumbler Ridge killer as a victim only in the narrow sense that he was also a product of a society that increasingly replaces truth with ideology and substitutes affirmation for real mental health care. This does not lessen his guilt by even one ounce, nor does it distract from the innocent lives he stole. The responsibility for the crime is his alone. But the cultural conditions that produce confusion, denial, and institutional cowardice must still be confronted.

Either way, I hope my words offend you in one way or another, because that is my goal. Offense is often the first step toward reflection. Comfort rarely produces clarity. Truth does.

We are created in the image of God. That isn’t poetry, not symbolism, not a metaphor. That’s the foundational truth of reality.

“So God created man in His own image… male and female He created them.”
(Genesis 1:27)

Human beings are not accidents of primordial goo. We are not meaningless cosmic mistakes drifting through an indifferent universe. We were made with purpose, intention, and distinction by the One True God.

Male and female is not a social invention. It is not an arbitrary label. It is part of the created order, woven into biology, nature, and the structure of life itself. And as our culture has departed from God, we have begun attacking even the most obvious distinctions of creation, one of which is biological sex. This is not merely political. It is spiritual rebellion. It is man declaring, “I will be my own god.”

“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie… and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.”
(Romans 1:25)

One of the most basic truths we have abandoned is this: saying something does not make it so. Reality does not bend to self-declaration. A man cannot become a woman. A woman cannot become a man. You can dress differently. You can alter your appearance. You can even undergo medical procedures. But cosmetic transformation does not change nature. Reality does not bend to self-declaration.

If I claim I am a unicorn, that does not make unicorns real. It means I am believing something false. Believing you are something you are not does not alter reality. It alters perception of reality. And society is now being asked to participate in this denial, not as an act of kindness, but as a moral obligation.

Children grow up confused. Adolescence is difficult. Identity formation is messy. This has always been true. For thousands of years, adults understood that young people go through awkward seasons of uncertainty and struggle, and they helped guide them through it with patience, wisdom, and protection. But today, instead of coaching children through confusion, we affirm it. We celebrate it. We build entire identities around it. We tell vulnerable kids that their discomfort is not something to be worked through, but a truth to be acted upon.

This is not healing. This is surrender.

We have replaced mental health care with ideological affirmation. And if the word “falsehood” offends people, so be it. Offense is not a moral veto. Truth matters more than comfort. Let me be clear: the person caught in this is not the enemy. The so-called “trans person” is not the problem. The problem is a culture that has abandoned truth so completely that it now treats profound identity distress as something to celebrate rather than something to compassionately help.

The real victims are the confused, the hurting, the searching, who are being offered ideology instead of truth. Children are told they were born wrong. They are told their body is a mistake. They are told their discomfort is proof of a new identity. They are told reinvention is salvation. But they are not told they are loved. They are not told they are created with purpose. They are not told they are not an accident. They are not told God does not make mistakes.

We are not loving people by lying to them. Compassion is not the same as affirmation.

Our children are raised in a world that increasingly teaches them that nothing matters. They are told they evolved from nothing and return to nothing. They are told their existence is harmful to the planet. They are told they should be ashamed of their history, ashamed of their ancestry, ashamed of their bodies. So they go searching for meaning, for belonging, for a tribe. And in that search, many are swept into ideological movements that offer identity as a substitute for purpose.

Some are led down paths of irreversible medicalization, sterilization, and lifelong consequences, all while deeper mental health struggles go untreated. This is not progress. It is abandonment dressed up as virtue.

Medicine has been wrong before. Authority has been wrong before. Institutions have been wrong before. Consensus is not truth. And we should not pretend that labeling something as “care” automatically makes it good, beneficial, or morally right. Children deserve protection, not experimentation. They deserve therapy, patience, and truth, not slogans and irreversible decisions made in the name of being “progressive.”

The answer is not found in self-invention. The answer is found in the Creator who knit you together in your mother’s womb with care, attention, and precision.

“For You formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my mother’s womb… I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
(Psalm 139:13–14)

God does not ask you to mutilate yourself to be whole. He does not ask you to hate your body to be accepted. He loves you as you are, and He proved it. Even though humanity turned away from Him, He sent His Son to die so that we do not have to. And He would have done that even if you were the only person on Earth.

That is real love. That is real acceptance. Not the shallow affirmation of falsehood, but the deep redemption of truth.

We are watching the cost of denying reality unfold in real time. This is not compassion. This is confusion institutionalized. The path forward is not ideological surrender. It is truth. It is courage. It is returning to the God who made us, loves us, and calls us back to what is real, good, and true.

What do we do?

This is not a time for silence. It is not a time for cowardice. If you believe God created humanity with purpose and distinction, then you cannot outsource truth to institutions that are terrified of being disliked.

Speak with courage. Love with honesty. Protect children with conviction.

And if you are struggling with confusion, distress, or despair, know this: you are not an accident. You are not beyond hope. You were created, known, and loved by the God who calls you back to truth, not to condemnation, but to redemption.

It is time to return to reality. It is time to return to God.

Our children deserve nothing less.

-Christopher