Memento Mori and the Truths of Life

Published: March 26, 2023, 11:57 a.m.

“What is truth?” asked Pontius Pilate shortly before sentencing Jesus the Nazorean to death. Pilate’s rhetorical question was a cynical reflection on the nature of truth in a culture that made its own reality through argument or force. To Pilate and his contemporaries, “truth” was subjective and relative; Jesus’ fellow Jews effectively manifested his guilt […]