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When truths conflict

Last night, I was watching a video of Pastor Driscoll reacting to the trailer of the new Netflix movie “Will and Harper”. While watching his reaction, a thought popped into my mind and it’s something I have heard/read different variations of it  — this idea that we all have our truths and we need to be true to ourselves. 

I find this very conflicting every time I hear it… and I question how much should we care about people’s self-serving “truths” even when they are not in any way helping us to become better as a society. 

I don’t have answers here but I am very worried we driving our society toward a place where people will do things because they feel like their defense will be “their truths”. As with every society, if the “good” side is unlucky enough to not be popular, we will have a situation where evil will reign and we will not be able to do anything about it. 

What are your thoughts on people’s truth? Have you had situations where someone’s truth conflicted with yours? In these situations, what do you do?

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