Try THIS On For Size!

Having a worldview is like wearing pants: wearing a pair that fits keeps you from being exposed in front of others. Much of the apologetic of unbelievers - social activists in particular, although there is a trickle-down effect - is to use manipulative tempt-tactics to entice believers to drop their drawers. 

On the one hand, to professing Christians who take a hard stance on the importance of truth, words like "tolerance," "empathy," "understanding," "social justice," etc. are weaponized, redefined so as to either force a capitulating compromise or - if one persists in defending and emphasizing the importance of truth - bad press. 

[By the way, this can be just as true of so-called right-wing activists as left-wing activists. For example, right-wing activists may be just as disposed to use the above subterfuge when abolishing abortion or prosecuting those who facilitate abortion are live options on a legislative table. Hypocrisy may be found in every age. Why would people who say they oppose something turn around and intentionally act in a way which undermines their stated position? Well, people may have motivations ulterior to a defense of truth. 

Ironically, if "social activism" is made an end in itself, then social activists can't have a terminus to their cause without also admitting a terminus to their own purpose or reason for being. This is as true on a global scale as it is on a national or local scale. But a worldview that purports to survive on conflict is, as Christ said, as a house divided: it cannot stand. Resolution, consummation, telos: God's will will be done.]

To Christians who understand the importance of a true worldview, they should know this. As much as one might try to suck in his or her gut and squeeze into a pair of Syncretic Slacks, they won't fit - and even if one might think they do, everyone else can see through them. With compromise off the table, bad press is the least of the persecution Christians ought to expect as they live out the Christological pattern of suffering before glory (cf. Romans 8, 1 Peter). 

On the other hand, to professing Christians who are less educated or less self-conscious about the need for a Christian worldview and the dangers of straying from it, unbelieving activitsts are eager to market their causes as new, fresh, trending, adventurous, etc. "Aren't you curious? Do you really want to miss out on the 'experience' we have to offer? Try THIS on for size!" Such sycophants make nihilistic nudists appear honest by comparison.

This analogy is more fitting when one considers the biblical metaphor of playing the harlot. For whom or what are professing Christians willing to undress themselves before the Lord, exchanging the Christological covering He requires (Exodus 28:42-43) for a fling? Just so, broad-mindedness is not a virtue. The book of Proverbs contains no such adage as, "you'll never know unless you try." To evaluate a worldview, we only have to look at it to know it won't fit.

A professing Christian who does not dress themselves in heavenly attire will not be distinguishable from worldly society (Matthew 7:16ff.). We are blessed that God's word provides a tailor-made remedy to our naked condition. May we teach and clothe our children accordingly.

Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.