The Relativity of Moral Values

The Relativity of Moral Values

This myth, in the words of Chuck Colson;

“The 'relativity of moral values' hides the dividing line between good and evil, noble and base. It has thus created a crisis in the realm of TRUTH.

When a society abandons its transcendent values, each individual’s moral vision becomes purely personal and finally equal. Society becomes merely the sum total of individual preferences and since no preference is morally preferable; anything that can be dared will be permitted. This leaves the moral consensus for our laws and manners in tatters.

Moral neutrality slips into moral relativism.

Tolerance substitutes for truth; indifference for religious conviction and in the end, confusion undercuts all our creeds.”