Relatively Speaking

From:  ChurchMilitant.com . . .

True or False:  How many of these statements do you agree with?

The only freedom ... is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual.

Nobody is subordinate to anyone else in what he thinks, what he does with his body, and what he believes. It's all relative to oneself.

Do whatever you want as long as you don't do something to someone without his consent. 

Rape is wrong but fornication is all right because mutual consent is the only standard for judging moral actions.

A person should be free to do whatever he or she wants with his or her body.

Contraception doesn't do something to someone without his consent and is acceptable while abortion does do something to another and is not acceptable.

Everyone has a right to worship however they wish.

There are no objective truths about morality. Therefore, you decide your moral standards for yourself; it's all relative to oneself.

All religions are equally valid and will get you to heaven.

Not one religion has all the truths and all the answers.

No religion should be able to dictate that followers believe each and every doctrine of that religion.

The individual should be able to decide which doctrines and religious beliefs of their religion to follow.

Individual autonomy means you should be allowed to decide how you want to practice your faith.

Each of these statements support Moral Relativism.

Relativism comes from Enlightenment philosophers, including John Stuart Mill, the father of modern liberalism. Liberalism is the belief that people should be free to do whatever they like with as few constraints as possible. In other words, nobody is subordinate to anyone else in what he thinks, what he does with his body, and what he believes. It's all relative to you.  Mill knew very well that his philosophy wouldn't work unless people didn't care about morality. In the same work, he says, "Religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized, except where religious indifference ... has added its weight to the scale."  Mill's principles are exactly how people today think about morality: Do whatever you want as long as you don't do something to someone without his consent. 

Sadly, many people today think that everyone has a right to worship how they wish. No, they don't.

Religion does matter because God does exist, and not all religions worship Him. Some worship false gods. Nobody has a right to spread falsehoods about God, human sexuality or any other moral issue.

A society that embraces moral relativism and religious pluralism (all religions are equally valid) has already embraced atheism.

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