"It's all relative" - From Across the Pond

By Darren Collins
Op/Ed

I have recently been discussing, with my friends, modernity and modern life, one thing struck me in particular, it goes a little something like this, "Well there's no absolute good anyway, it's all relative". This is almost the credo of society, it is treated as fact that there is no objective, or absolute good, this is bound to do great deal off damage.

If we look at what moral relativism actually says we see that we cannot: condemn; we cannot applaud; we prescribe, nor can we advise. We are left in a state of moral anarchy, where literally everything goes. Doesn't this bear a striking resemblance to modernity?

Relativism is insidious, it is insidious because it masks itself as tolerance, freedom, and liberty when it in facts removes all meaning from these words. Surely to be tolerant we need to know what intolerance is, to laud freedom we need to castigate the act of taking it away? And liberty is nothing if relativism has its way.

The true horror of relativism manifests itself when we are faced with an event that is abhorrent, for instance the Nazis. Millions of people around the globe, including in Germany, thought what happened during the Second World War was truly repulsive, they did not believe that it was fine since everyone has their own morality. The people who fought Fascism, both through passivity and action, compared the emaciation of the Jews to the moral code they knew and saw it for what it really is.

Relativism would surely say that although Nazis should not impose their beliefs on others, neither should we. So we could not stop Hitler because "it's all relative". Would you like to know what isn't relative? Rape, murder, abortion, starvation, abuse, infanticide, genocide, and crimes against humanity. These actions offend the very nature of God's love, and go against the core of our beliefs, we do not wretch because of the putrefying flesh, but of the putrefied hearts and souls of the perpetrators.

This is what relativism is. It may be thought that this has no impact upon contemporary society, but this is sorely mistaken. Now more than ever we see licentious hedonism rampant throughout my generation (the young) because education has not had the guts to instruct about right and wrong. If this is not done all the literacy hours (a new governmental strategy) in the world won't do any good.

I beg of you all, that when you hear something along the lines of, "It's all relative." You stand up and shout that it is not; that life is not relative it is absolute! Though they may choose to believe otherwise, but this is the truth. In the words of our late Holy Father I beg you to "be not afraid" when faced with trials and tribulations, "Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song", Pope John Paul the Great.

Contact

Darren Collins
https://www.catholic.org , GB
Darren Collins - Student,

Email

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Keywords

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