The Ontological Reality and the Primacy of Truth

I have to come back to this time and time again because it is at the core of living a life of integrity. There are two kinds of people, those who don't care about the truth, only something else, their ease, their power, whatever it is, and the other kind of people that do care about the truth.

"What is truth?" was Pilate's question delivered as he examined Jesus (John 18:38). It is a question that does not much trouble the worldlings who care only for their own ease and little for others. We live in a world dominated by this view. Humpty Dumpty knew this well, "The question is which is to be master, that's all."
But that is the worldling view, the view of those for whom the world is simply a material realm of atoms and they are nothing more than atoms with sentience. But is that the truth?
Truth is the reality of what actually is the case and not what is not the case. Those who create their own truth, ignoring that which actually is for that while they would like to be will come to the crushing reality that they don't really have a say in the matter.
Truth matters because to act in accordance to anything else works only in the short run and whatever we are doing, whatever we hope to be, the short run ends all too quickly. My dad used to joke when he was driving and saw a jogger struggling to get one more mile in, "There's someone ...", he would say, "... who thinks he's going to get out of this alive." That may not have been entirely fair to the jogger but it made the point for me that the short run ends all too quickly and then we are ... well in some other state. Now maybe we're just gone, pushing up daiseys with the disassociated chemicals that joined together formed us in life. But you know and I know that none of us really feel that way. There was the line in "Fame" I always remember because it was a thrilling line, "I'm gonna live forever, I'm gonna learn how to fly."
C.S. Lewis put it this way, "We're either going to be an everlasting glory or an everlasting horror" and the choice is ours. And that choice is all tied up with the question of truth.
If you're read this far you're a glutton for punishment. What's my punch line? Well I guess my punch line is that when we hear someone talking about a woman's right to choose there ought to be a larger context. When she chooses death for her little one, she is acting in the short run like a worldling and that's not a choice that leads to everlasting glory. God has already infused a soul, a human soul, an immortal soul, into the material tissue of these little ones. I'm not so smart as to know where they are or how they are getting on. I am betting that they are in the loving arms of God. The one who chose for them, who made the choice to deny them life and love, is on her way along with those who enabled and encouraged her decision to becoming that everlasting horror. Truth matters.