“…belief in Genesis 1:27, lack of belief in transgenderism and conscientious objection to transgenderism in our judgment are incompatible with human dignity…”

Chillingly, the judges who dealt with his case ruled that: The reason? His conviction, on moral and scientific grounds, that sex is immutable. In 2018, a British doctor, David Mackereth, who had worked for the NHS for nearly 30 years was dismissed from his role as a health and disabilities assessor at the Department for Work and Pensions. We are told to address men as if they are women, women as men, or people who demand it as ‘non-binary’. They want to enforce a false ideology on everyone else. Activists for trans rights are not only wanting toleration for a small minority of troubled people.

Those who suffer must be treated with respect and compassion.īut Christians often stop there, and fail to challenge the false teaching that is causing confusion. They may not all be lobbying for transgender rights. Of course those who are caught up in this confusion may not necessarily deny the reality of our Creator. If there is no God, and we are the only point of reference, then how do we know what, or who, we are? Gender confusion is just one symptom of this generation’s declaration of independence from our Creator. We demand the right to de-construct and re-construct it as we please. But if we reject the existence of a Creator, we also reject his creation as a ‘given’ to be respected. Created male and femaleĪfter the creation of man and woman, God declared that his creation was ‘very good’. Douglas Murray’s latest bestselling book The Madness of Crowds describes how mass hysteria and political correctness terrify people into silence about the false claims of trans-activists. It is to play along with unreason and insanity. they want to be free to change identity from day to day). 40 children in that one school identified as ‘trans’ and 36 as ‘gender fluid’ (i.e. ‘It’s a fine thing to be crazy, for then you are free’.įast forward to 2018, to a school in Brighton, England where trans-affirming organisations have been particularly active. Foucault’s response, of course was not to return to an acceptance of Divine authority. In it he commented on Michel Foucault’s Madness and Civilization (1961), which exposed the failure of the ‘Enlightenment project’ to answer all questions by unaided human reason. Kenneth Ferguson and Stirling Free Churchįifty years ago the great Christian thinker Francis Schaeffer wrote Escape from Reason.

Escape from reason book