No Pride #6 - Weaponized Emotions

We live in times when emotions have been weaponized, becoming a powerful tool to silence truth. This isn't unique to the Pride movement, but it has embraced this strategy and mastered it. The core technique is simple: get offended—play the victim—whenever the truth doesn’t align with your narrative.

In this ideology, disagreement is considered hate. Why? Because once someone fuses their identity with an ideology, opposing that ideology is seen as opposing the person, even denying their existence. To question the belief is to deny their rights, their choices, their experiences, and to overlook their pain, trauma, and suffering.

Operating on these terms, truth becomes secondary because truth can hurt. In this worldview, compassion means accepting and affirming someone’s experience as truth. That, they argue, is the only way to acknowledge a person’s value and existence.

But here lies the problem: this worldview treats truth as harmful. Truth is relativized, moulded to comfort and convenience. The Bible sees it differently. Scripture reveals truth as objective and as the only path to true freedom and flourishing. In God’s Word, truth is never the enemy; it is our greatest ally.

Real compassion acknowledges pain, but doesn’t stop there—it gently applies the truth as healing. Leaving someone to live in falsehood is not love. It's abandonment.

Yes, it’s true: Christians—and more broadly, conservatives—are not always the most gentle people. Sometimes truth is delivered harshly, like a bad nurse with a life-saving injection. And while an unkind doctor may still save a life, it’s no wonder some people fear hospitals.

So let’s strive to apply truth like a balm, not a blade. Not everyone will receive it well, but we are commanded to speak the truth in love. Just don’t be manipulated by feelings. Sharing the gospel is more serious than any healthcare work—it’s a matter of eternal destiny.

May God protect our minds from deceit and fill our hearts with His truth and compassion.

Nino Marques