Oh, the irony.

There's a church on Kent-Kangley Road that I drive past every morning on my way to the train. It has a readerboard. I don't generally pay attention to what it has to say because church readerboards generally have stupid, meaningless sayings that are meant to be pithy and thought-provoking for the sheep - err, I mean, the flock - that attend services there. They are meant to make the flock nod knowingly and say "praise Jesus," smug in the satisfaction that they are going to heaven when they die, and that the all-powerful creator of the universe loves them and values them above all others, no matter how much porn they surf for on the Internet, no matter how they abuse their children or pets, no matter how they steal from the office and justify it in their belief that they deserve it because they are underpaid and they work so hard.

But I digress.

Today I accidentally noticed the board. It says, "Truth is not relative." (Insert wry grin here.) It seems to me that the truth is nothing but relative where religion is concerned. Truth is what appeals to you. Truth is the agenda set forth by those in charge in order to serve some end. If truth was not relative, there wouldn't be several thousand "official" churches and innumerable smaller churches run out of people's homes.

I think it would be more accurate for the readerboard to say, "Our truth is not relative to us." But I doubt anyone would get it.

Just for the record, this is my truth. I don't expect it to be yours.