Virtual Unreality

A while back the story came out about a 52-year-old father of seven children left his wife to be a 6-year-old girl. That was not a misprint. He wasn't with a 6-year-old girl; he identified as one. He didn't "want to be an adult," so he moved in with an adoptive family ... with their own 7-year-old daughter. He lived as a 6-year-old girl, going to work every day and ... wait ... hang on ... a 6-year-old that goes to work every day?

Back then it was outrageous. Today it's passé. Because today we don't much care about facts. "I identify" is the rule. Except ... when it's not. He can identify as a she and you'd better accept that. He can identify as a 6-year-old and you'd better accept that. He can't identify as a black woman for some reason. He can't identify as 7 foot tall according to the rules that no one has published yet. But, doggone it, you'd better not even try to point to a birth certificate or a driver's license (that no 6-year-old has a right to have) and cry, "Foul!" His family asked him to be their husband and father and he said, "It would be like asking a 6'2" man to stop being 6'2" tall." Right, because height is obvious ... and sex and age are not? He originally identified as 8-years-old, but his adoptive sister, 7 at the time, wanted a younger sister, so he went for 6 years old ... because "I identify" is a solid rock when he wants it to be and constantly variable if he doesn't. Completely irrational.

What disturbs me most, however, is not this man who has gone off the rails. What disturbs me most is this adoptive family who subjected their very young daughter to this absolutely obvious nonsense and said, "Yes, this is real." (It really broke my heart when I realized that this little girl was the same age as my granddaughter at the time. Imagining parents subjecting a little girl to such confusion was unconscionable to me.) It's the society that says, "You must accept as fact what all of reality denies." It's the world that embraces irrationality as rational and requires the remaining, thinking people to knuckle under or suffer their wrath. That such a thing as this guy happens isn't too surprising; we have deceitful hearts (Jer 17:9). That we pat him on the back and say, "Good for you" and tell his "sister" to ignore all reality and society to submit or else ... that's the tragedy. That's the product of the father of lies.