In the post-modern world, we have been led to believe that truth is relative to person, place, time and culture. This notion has led many to approach different faiths, cultures, nations and people with the exalted virtues of open-mindedness and tolerance. By allowing our “firmly-held” principles to be subordinate to the principles of others, we are commended as being enlightened and unofficious. But there are two important logical conclusions that follow from this practice. First, In extolling the virtues of everyone else’s “truth”, we may soon find ourselves denigrating truth. As G.K. Chesterton aptly noted, “These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” Second, If the truth is relative, then there is no truth. Or to paraphrase Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “If there is no [Truth], everything is permitted.” - See more at: patheos/blogs/acatholicthinker/2014/08/isis-evil-the-crisis-of-moral-relativism/#sthash.SZnQa6V2.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:33:33 +0000
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