Sarah Reardon: Be truthful to yourself, not true

“Be true to yourself” is one of the primary slogans of our culture.

This same culture insists that if a man feels like a woman, he is one, and if a woman loves a woman, that’s all well and good, and if someone wants to murder their unborn child, so be it. In each case, an individual is being consistent with “their truth.”

Christians and conservatives have long disdained and disproved this sort of logic, which makes the individual human the arbiter of reality, thus destroying any reality beyond the individual. One prominent pastor, Kevin DeYoung, even wrote a book entitled, “ Do Not Be True to Yourself ,” which primarily instructs young people to seek to faithfully follow God instead of their own whims. “We must be giving better counsel to people than simply to find the true self which