When a Culture Forbids the Truth, Violence Follows

A school shooting in Canada is heartbreaking on its own. But what should chill every parent is what came after: the public struggle to even describe what happened honestly.

Not the motive. Not the weapon. Not the warning signs.

The basic facts.

We now live in a time where saying “male” and “female” out loud can be treated like a political act. And when a society cannot speak plainly about reality, it does not become more compassionate. It becomes more dangerous.

Because truth is not optional. It is foundational. And when you erase foundations, buildings collapse.

The new rule is not “be tolerant.” It is “affirm or else.”

For years, Christians were told we simply needed to be kind. To stop “judging.” To “let people live.”

But the cultural demand has shifted. Silence is no longer enough. Courtesy is no longer enough. Coexistence is no longer enough.

Now the requirement is endorsement.

You must call a man a woman.
You must treat delusion as identity.
You must celebrate what God calls sin.
And if you refuse, you will be punished.

That is not tolerance. That is coercion.

And coercion always needs enforcement.

Sometimes enforcement looks like a title stripped away from a young woman who refuses to sign a contract redefining “female.” Sometimes it looks like a public figure losing her platform because she said something “incorrect” about a cultural sacred cow. And sometimes it looks like schools treating patriotic kids like extremists because they do not want to participate in Pride rituals.

Different settings. Same spirit.

“Just tell the truth” is now considered an act of violence

In the aftermath of the Canadian shooting, the disturbing pattern wasn’t just the violence. It was the institutional discomfort with plain speech.

When authorities and media hesitate to identify a biological male as a male because the suspect “identified” otherwise, they reveal a priority. It is not accuracy. It is ideological compliance.

And that matters.

Because in real emergencies, words are not activism. Words are information. Descriptions are not hate. Descriptions are how you protect the public.

But we have trained institutions to fear truth more than they fear lies. And once that happens, every system starts to rot.

A society that treats disorder as normal is building a pipeline to chaos

Here is what we are not allowed to say anymore: some people are not okay.

Some people are not simply “finding themselves.”
Some people are not merely “expressing their truth.”
Some people are unraveling.

And the most cruel thing you can do to a mentally unstable person is to pretend instability is identity.

Christians should be the first to acknowledge compassion. We are commanded to love. We are commanded to serve. We are commanded to have mercy.

But mercy does not require pretending. Love does not require lying. Compassion does not require affirming confusion.

Real compassion confronts what is destroying a person.

If a man believes he is something he is not, the kind response is not to celebrate the belief. The kind response is to help him return to reality.

Because reality is where healing starts.

The battlefield is the kids, and the front line is the school

If you want to see where this is going, look at how children are being treated.

Schools now host Pride Spirit Days and act shocked when students resist. Administrators call opposition “intolerant rhetoric” and blame parents for teaching values at home.

Let that sink in: parents teaching their children morality is being framed as the problem.

That is a major reveal.

It means the system does not see your home as a partner. It sees your home as competition.

And the real frustration from the activists is this: they are not fully controlling the kids anymore.

Some children are starting to say “no.”
Some children are starting to push back.
Some children are starting to recognize that forced celebration is not education.

That is why the adults are angry. Because coercion only works when people comply.

If Christians keep surrendering ground, we will wake up in exile

This is not just about Canada. It is not just about a pageant. It is not just about a school event.

It is about a civilization that has decided God’s design is negotiable.

When you remove the categories God created, male and female, mother and father, truth and lies, you do not become “free.” You become unmoored.

And unmoored societies drift into darkness quickly.

Christians have to stop treating this like a cultural debate and start treating it like spiritual warfare. Because it is.

The Bible prepared us for this:

• A time when good will be called evil and evil will be called good.
• A time when conviction will be labeled hatred.
• A time when refusing to bow will cost you.

So the question is not whether pressure is coming. It is.

The question is whether Christians will keep adapting, compromising, and apologizing our way into irrelevance, or whether we will stand with clarity and courage.

Here is the line in the sand

We can be kind without being compliant.
We can be compassionate without pretending.
We can love people without surrendering truth.

But if we allow a culture to criminalize reality, we should expect more confusion, more broken families, and yes, more violence.

Because lies do not create peace.
Lies create instability.

Truth is not the enemy.
Truth is the guardrail.

And when a society tears down its guardrails, it should not be surprised when people drive off a cliff.