Moral relativism

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It's a great question, too, because I, the notes that I'd taken down here, we talk about gray morality, and how, um, I, like, I love the subjective and objective morality debate and the conversation around moral relativism in general.

Uh, and, uh, Andrew, uh, what's his name? Debate Bro.

Wilson.

It is actually an interesting read.

Maybe not everyone's favorite topic, but there's a couple things that are interesting and unique and relevant about this passage that might be, you know, useful in your general cars practice.

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And then there's, there's always like the the danger with any kind of like philosophy passage to have getting like lost in the sauce for like sentence structure or like the the and vocabulary they use.

like, theater of war, and then he uses al-Qaeda as the comparison for our killings.

So I figured I would take, let's take the moral relativism aside and say that, like, you know, killing in American interest is, you know, like, morally the same as killing in interest of, like, the caliphate or whatever al-Qaeda wants or whatever.

If you were to just look at American You know, the ratio of American killings in war from post-World War II, you have, you know, the highest is the Gulf War in 1991 with one civilian death per five to seven combatants.

And then the second highest is like ISIS, which was 4.5 to eight combatants per one civilian death.

Do you believe that the grounds for all morality, all truth reside in the attributes and character of God? And if so, doesn't that mean that all truth and morality is unchangeable? Hello, I'm Bill Wright, and today Tom is continuing his current series with part six of Trending Versus Truth.

Last time, Tom introduced us to the root of moral relativism and its impact throughout recent history.

Today, you'll discover seven practical biblical responses to the claims of moral relativism, and how to respond to those who reject biblical truth.

And think about your own life.

How have you responded to the lure of moral relativism? Are you fully submitted to the authority of God in your life? Keep all that in mind as we join our teacher now on The Word Unleashed.

God is so patient, slow to anger.

He takes so much.

They don't wanna have anything to do with God, so what does God do? Three times it says God gave them over, God gave them over, God gave them over to their sin.

The basic foundation of our culture today is moral relativism, and I call that a myth because what it has in common with a myth is that myths have no real correspondence ultimately to objective truth.

In other words, we are basing our civilization and our culture on a moral concept, ladies and gentlemen, that can't possibly be true.

[classical music] "If God does not exist, then everything is permitted." Those words are just as true today as when Dostoevsky first wrote them almost 150 years ago.

How I drive my car with respect and with responsibility towards my neighbor is a moral matter.

If you can't legislate morality, should we have laws against murder? If you can't legislate morality, should we have laws against theft? These are moral matters.

But our society really doesn't believe in total moral relativism because it understands, ladies and gentlemen, that in a situation, in an environment of pure moral relativism, society is impossible.

Historians have told us that every civilization, every culture in world history has been built upon the foundation of a philosophy, a religion, or a mythology.

Something that gave unifying stability to the culture.

If you remove a God-given moral standard, now if you don't have moral objectivity, you have moral subjectivity.

Now, instead of a moral absolute, you have moral relativism.

And if you have moral relativism, then morality can change.

Instead of God-assigned morality, a contract between God and man, now it becomes what's left, a social contract.

Morality is relative, and it's just a social contract that we the people decide.

And once you untether yourself from something fixed morally, you're no longer staked to the land.

You're going to be just up and down on the waves of the ocean.

That's what moral relativism is, and you can get very, very far away.

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... uh, moral relativism.

And so morality is a, is a function of class, okay? And so remember, the leftist believes that all of society, uh, is in various classes.

Of course, they talk about it all the time.

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Okay, so this thing you just y- uh, laid out for us, uh, Solzhenitsyn and, and moral relativism.

Isabel Brown wri- uh, works for the Daily Wire, and she was on the Clay and Buck Show, and she laid this out.

My next guest, James Herson, explained it better than anyone or anything that I've read or heard about.

He wrote an op-ed this week in Newsmax entitled, How Moral Relativism Paved the Way to Communism.

He's here this morning to talk about just a little bit about Mr. Herson.

He's the author of the New York Times bestseller, Tales from the Left Coast, writes popular articles and op-eds weekly for Newsmax, and he is a former keyboardist for The Temptations.

They are unequivocal, pure communists, Soviet-style, following Marx and Lenin.

And Marx and Lenin knew that in order to get their agenda through, they had to take away the moral foundations.

And the way to do that is with this... kind of disguised philosophical dismantling machine called moral relativism that snuck into our country in the academic world long before ball of confusion in the 1970s.

James, I hate to