And Nothing But the Truth

There has been more said about truth and its difference from falsehood than has been considered in a long time. This has been exacerbated by the presence of a newly post-factual world, where excuses, denial and even outright insistence that it is the truth,so what! are more and more common.
But let us be real: people lie! People have turned from truth in varying ways since Adam tried to cover the truth about that apple. In some communities of faith,there is even a liturgical way for someone to confess deceit and falsehood, and be forgiven for it.
And at the same time we almost expect the lie, even feel a thrill about the supposed revelations offered us. (Exhibit A: the tabloids, and even more the click-bait headlines on the internet.) Perhaps it is a residue of childhood when the grownups would keep things from us (in the justifiable reason of protecting us), perhaps it is our current rapidly-changing society where a need to know what is going on has become essential (if perhaps futile.)
But we are facing a different issue today. People in authority, for a variety of reasons, seem to have declared war on truth. Not absolute truth, to be sure (even were that possible!) But simple, garden variety truth. Perhaps it comes from a time in their lives where they could say whatever without chance anyone might know the difference. Perhaps it comes from something deeper, a need to seem better, grander than others. Whatever the etiology, it leaves many feeling every feeling from frustration to anger.(And for some, a kinky sense of the ridiculous.akin to Monty Python's "Dead Parrot"skit.)
Some have compared this to Goebbel's Great Lie strategy. (If you repeat a lie often and seriously enough, people will begin to believe it)But it does challenge us to look at what we hold true, to insist the earth does go around the sun, that there is nothing really to be afraid of in the darkness, that trust (however risky) is still our best option. Because the truths long since held evident are still true