They quote Scripture. They post Dawkins. They’ve got opinions.
But they aren’t thinking. They’re mirroring.
Modern man has become an intellectual voyeur with a fake soul.
You ever talk to someone and realize…
there’s no one home?
They nod in all the right places.
They say things like “love is love” or “Jesus never judged” or “I just think we should be kind.”
They might quote C.S. Lewis or Carl Sagan, depending on what subreddit they’ve been mainlining that week.
But here’s the truth:
They don’t believe what they say.
They repeat it.
Because it feels true—not because it is true.
This is the age of synthetic truth.
A generation doped up on regurgitated narratives, TikTok theologies, and dopamine-fed outrage cycles.
They don’t arrive at conclusions.
They adopt them—pre-packaged, pre-approved, pre-processed.
And they wear them like costumes.
Modern men aren’t thinkers. They’re cosplayers.
The Christian LARPs as faithful while secretly scrolling porn and never opening his Bible.
The atheist LARPs as intellectual while quoting memes and calling it logic.
The trad wife LARPs as holy while idolizing aesthetics over obedience.
NPCs in a spiritual war.
Soulless actors in a battle they don’t even know they’re part of.
Here’s how you know you’ve been infected by synthetic truth:
You can’t defend what you say you believe without Googling it.
You change your opinions when your tribe changes theirs.
You post convictions online that you don’t live in private.
You outsource discernment to influencers.
You’ve never sat alone with God long enough to let Him wreck your worldview.
You’re not a thinker.
You’re a mirror.
You reflect the loudest thing in the room and call it “truth.”
Paul didn’t die for vibes.
Jesus didn’t bleed to create followers who post Bible verses but refuse to obey the God who wrote them.
“This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.”
— Mark 7:6 (KJV)
This is the hour to repent or rot.
To torch the idols of secondhand belief.
To stop consuming and start contending.
To stop wearing the mask of someone “deep” and finally become someone real.
We don’t need more voices.
We need more men who have stood at the altar of truth and said,
“Even if it costs me everything—I won’t bow.”
Your Move
If you’ve felt it—that hollow ache inside when you realize most of what you believe came from someone else’s podcast, not God’s Word…
Then this is your chance to flip the script.
Truth is not synthetic.
It’s bloody. It’s weighty.
It’s carved into stone and crucified onto wood.
And it’s waiting for you to stop parroting and start standing.
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