When we hear people talk about ideas that are false, yet necessary for a humane social order, that is a signal that they have bumped up against the hard edge of a reality that does not fit their worldview. They have stumbled upon the truths of general revelation. And they are seeking to suppress those truths by demoting them to useful fictions. It’s remarkable how Paul’s description in Romans 1 of the dynamics of suppression makes sense of the latest modern worldviews.
