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The Oxford English dictionary has just announced the word of the year and here it is - Post-Truth. According to the said dictionary, something is post-truth if it is “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotions and personal beliefs.” In other words, it’s not known universal truths that are shaping people`s lifestyles and choices but rather it’s now increasingly their personal tastes, feelings and preferences. The editors of the dictionary are very right to name this the word of the year because this word accurately describes the mood of our culture. People no longer care about Truth, people no longer pattern their lives basing on some known truths. Their opinions and decisions are now determined by their feelings, tastes and preferences.  To borrow the words of one author, ours is a generation that hears with its eyes and thinks with its feelings. You see Human beings are both intell...

It is well observed that people only counterfeit valuable things. No body counterfeits aluminum but Gold. You`ll most commonly see this in monetary forgeries; if counterfeiting is to be done among Ugandan coins, it will be the five hundred shillings. If you look among the paper denominations, the twenty and fifty thousand shillings notes are the most popular forgeries you`ll encounter. We even see this in spiritual terms; among all the religions of the world, it’s Christianity that has the most cults because it’s the only true faith. You will lose count ounce you start researching and documenting Christian cults, because they keep springing up every day. Nobody counterfeits Islam because there is nothing valuable there! Now there are two virtues of the Christian faith that every Christian strives to have; these virtues are Love and humility. Its every Christian`s desire to be Christ like. Christ is the supreme embodiment of these two virtues; he had greater love and any man and ha...