Okay, so on my laptop now...
When I was returning from my weekend trip yesterday I was discussing this idea with mrs. trapeze which is to say that I talked a lot and she listened a lot because she prefers to not get in my way when I am deep into one of these things.
And at one point I brought up the notion of perceived "truth" in comparison to actual truth. That is, how two supposedly intelligent persons can look at the same thing and see things completely at odds with the other. I posited that God is truth and to reject God was to reject truth and everything after that is a slippery slope into insanity.
As an example of this I thought of one of the final scenes from C.S. Lewis' "The Last Battle" which, if you are unfamiliar with the Narnia series, is an allegory of Armageddon and the afterlife that follows. At one point toward the end of the battle, the enemy is pitching the heroes into a stable which was thought to contain certain death in the form of a secret executioner. In fact, as each hero was tossed through the doorway they found themselves in the afterlife, in heaven. If an enemy entered through the door, Tash (the metaphor for Satan) would instantly appear and devour them before vanishing again. This happened every time, good people were spared and evil people were destroyed, with one exception...the dwarves.
The dwarves (before being cast into the stable) had decided to reject everything and fight only for themselves. They attacked the good and bad alike declaring that, "the dwarves are for the dwarves." They rejected the very existence of both Tash (Satan) and Aslan (God/Jesus) and made the decision to follow their own "truth." After they were tossed through the stable door they were unable to experience the new reality inside. All of the heroes were able to see that they were, in fact, not inside a stable at all but in a vast and impossibly beautiful country (heaven). But the dwarves could not see any of it. They were, instead, only able to perceive that they were locked inside a dark, dirty and smelly donkey stable. Aslan appeared and caused a bountiful feast to be set before them and the dwarves were unable to experience it as it was. The dwarves' "truth" was that they were presented instead with such things to eat and drink that might instead be found inside of a stable.
So for the dwarves, their rejection of actual truth resulted in their minds being permanently altered in such a way that they could never experience it ever again.
"I don't think we want any more Kings-if you are Tirian, which you don't look like him-no more than we want any Aslans. We're going to look after ourselves from now on and touch our caps to nobody, see?"
"That's right," said the other dwarfs. "We're on our own now. No more Aslan, no more Kings, no more silly stories about other worlds. The dwarfs are for the dwarfs."
And the final word on them then became:
“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”
I thought that was a pretty close description of the behavior I see being carried out today by most of those on the left and not a few of those on the right.
It also reminded me of the quote assigned to G.K. Chesterton: "When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything."
EDIT: Another interesting quote from "The Last Battle" in light of Texas Democrats chanting, "Hail Satan!" would be this one:
“People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.”