“Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.” SeemsTodayAbsolutesRelativism Author:Joseph Goebbels
“Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?” ChildrenLongTenAbsolutesHumanismMainstreamCommandmentsPornographyAbandonmentTen CommandmentsRelativism Author:Randall Terry
“we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.” MadeProblemTodayMoralMoralityAbsolutesExtraordinaryPatientMedicalYesterdaySinnerTransitionRelativismMoral Relativism Author:Ellen Goodman
“Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.” WantShowsFormMoralMoralityAbsolutesRelativeRelativismAbsolutismMoral Relativism Author:Peter Kreeft
“My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.” FirstsIdeasRealValuesCultureFatherExistenceMoralModernBecomingEternalUltimateAbsolutesMethodFundamentalsCurrentsBelieverRejectsCreedsLinkedPremisesScientific MethodRelativismAbsolutismModern CultureMoral RelativismGod Is Real Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.” IfsEvilDifferencesMoralAbsolutesCommunismFascismMinorsNaziPitsSimilarityNazismRelativismMoral Relativism Author:Paul Johnson
“Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.” WantShouldBelieveSelfLyingAbsolutesDestructiveAbsolute TruthSelf DestructiveRelativismPinnacle Author:Norman Geisler
“Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.” PeopleKnowsWorldMindBelieveIdeasEnoughLightDarknessOrdinaryAbsolutesDefinitionsCleverObjectivesAbsurdHelplessOrdinary PeopleRelativismMeaninglessnessObjective TruthMeaningfulnessSubjectivism Author:Peter Kreeft
“At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.” ChristianCertainValuesUniverseMoralChristianityPrinciplesAbsolutesStructureFixedEthicalContrastRelativismMoral ValuesMoral Principles Author:Martin Luther
“The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.” StillsLife IsMoralClassCitizensGoodnessOrdinaryAbsolutesSavedRedemptionJournalistRepublicElitesIncapableDegradationRelativismDiscerningGildedOrdinary CitizensSophistryMoral RelativismDerelictChardonnay Author:Charles Dickens