Moral Relativism, The Nazis and Christianity...

I've come across two great articles recently that used the Nazis as examples of how cultures that embrace moral relativism are doomed. Great commentary, and important reading:

Rebecca Hagelin leads off her column with a statement from a student at Hamilton College in New York: "Of course I dislike the Nazis. But who is to say they’re morally wrong?" She continues...

Whoa. If that statement floors you as much as it does me, then you probably can understand the need for “Christian Ethics in Plain Language,” an eye-opening book by Kerby Anderson that brings a biblical perspective to a variety of ethical issues, from abortion and euthanasia to drugs and gambling.

The statement above was spoken by a student at Hamilton College in New York. “Professor Roger Simon … said that he has never met a student who denied the Holocaust happened,” Anderson writes. “But he also reported that 10 to 20 percent of his students cannot bring themselves to say that killing millions of people is wrong.”

If this isn’t an indictment of how modern society has deified “tolerance,” nothing is. What could illustrate the dangerous folly of moral relativism more perfectly than a student who can’t admit that mass murder is wrong -- not because of his feelings but because it’s a fact? A society of people who cannot condemn the Nazis is a society courting moral anarchy.

Read the rest here.

Lane Palmer believe that You CAN Handle the Truth. Here's a sample:

First, to not believe in absolute truth is illogical. To deny an absolute is to make an absolute statement. To claim there is no truth is saying: it is a truth that there is no truth! This just doesn't work.

Second, to not believe in absolute truth is impractical. Without it, all you are left with is relative truth, which really isn't truth at all. Relative truth is a squishy spongy worldview that just adapts to whatever situation you put it in. For example, what if it's "true" for me to break into your garage and steal your SUV just because? I don't think you would appreciate relative truth at that time. In fact, you would be glad that there is an absolute thing in America called the law with trained professionals around to back it up. This is why relative truth is so impractical, because any decent society will eventually crumble under its weak foundation. The world saw the most horrific example of a nation that convinced itself of her ability to determine truth. It was called Nazi Germany, and at some point the idea of relative moral truth turned into a philosophy of selfishness, which in the end created a culture of death.

Great stuff!

I'm tired of hearing and watching people in leadership positions who are afraid of truth...so concerned about offending others that they abandon their sense of right and wrong and instead find themselves in obscurity - no-mans-land. This is a frightening place where there is no truth, where you are by default subjugated by any and all evil.

Take a stand on the side of right America, and be prepared to fight for it.

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