Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Moral Relativism

To quote Judie Brown of the American Life League:
Pope Benedict XVI has addressed the problematic nature of moral relativism (MoRe) on several occasions, including the effect that such thinking, which he calls a “dictatorship of relativism,” has had on young people across the world.

This argument is mirrored by a recent Knights of Columbus/Marist poll. Speaking of that survey while in Rome, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson said, “Catholic Millennials support Church teaching in a wide variety of areas, including contentious issues like abortion and euthanasia. In other areas, the cultural relativism that Pope Benedict XVI has spoken so much about is very evident, and it confirms the wisdom of his attention to this question as central to the New Evangelization.”

Such comments remind me of a Celebrate Life magazine article published in the year 2000 and written by then ALL executive director Andrew Daub. In his article, “No MoRe Lies,” Daub spelled it out very clearly when he said, “A better way to describe moral relativism is moral apathy—the absence of truth, interest, emotion, feeling or concern in regard to morals. It’s feeling blah about right or wrong—too lazy or uninterested to make a decision.” (Read entire post.)
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julygirl said...

It happens when the problems and pitfalls of life drag people down to the point of physical, moral and psychic exhaustion leaving them with a sense of frustration and helplessness. For many families, it is enough just getting their children schooled, keeping them safe, paying bills, and generally trying not to drown in the current of cultural mayhem.