Since I believe the King James Bible is absolute Truth, I don't have the same optimism that we can turn society around anymore by merely resisting. That train left long ago. We are an ever-dwindling minority who hold to objective truths even though spiritual wickedness in high places convinced us we live on a spinning ball, flying through infinite space. After the additional theories of Darwinian evolution, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Marxist communism and feminism became the established faith, the God of the Bible was removed from our thoughts and relativism became the new religion. We are now our own gods doing as we will. How's that working out for us? Think I'll keep speaking the Truth in love and wait for that blessed Savior to appear and set things aright.
Truth is just another uman Thought construct. Each brain generate it's own truth. When uman animals communicate and start spewing their thoughts at some point those that know the thought might agree with it and both start to claim that said thought is truth. Well we can easily see how this process can derail into fun uman violent events.
I would contend that relativism is a natural response to the religious and colonial dogma of the past. It's a matter of the pendulum swinging the other way. Perhaps too far, yes, but that seems to be how the moral arc of history bends. (At least until we learn to pursue truth with a healthy dose of epistemological humility.)
Yes, we are in a period of ideological chaos, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Ideology, especially religion, has helped unite large groups of people, but it has also been deeply divisive. Relativism doesn't need to become another dogma. For me, it's simply a recognition that we all come from different places, hold different perceptions of truth (moral or otherwise), and need to respect one another's truths, while humbly remembering that our own are likely flawed.
We have to remain open to each other, even when we disagree. Even when we are repulsed by one another's beliefs or behaviors. Without openness, there can be no real conversation, and no opportunity to help each other grow. We just stay divided.
Relativism shouldn't be weaponized. But neither should universalism. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
"That said, I think we can create something new out of a fractured, relativist, post-modern world, but we have to be willing to resist these trends and be unwavering in our commitment to objectivity. "
I like the optimism of this statement, I'm not sure I personally have the strength, but I hope it's easier for others than me.
Since I believe the King James Bible is absolute Truth, I don't have the same optimism that we can turn society around anymore by merely resisting. That train left long ago. We are an ever-dwindling minority who hold to objective truths even though spiritual wickedness in high places convinced us we live on a spinning ball, flying through infinite space. After the additional theories of Darwinian evolution, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Marxist communism and feminism became the established faith, the God of the Bible was removed from our thoughts and relativism became the new religion. We are now our own gods doing as we will. How's that working out for us? Think I'll keep speaking the Truth in love and wait for that blessed Savior to appear and set things aright.
Truth is just another uman Thought construct. Each brain generate it's own truth. When uman animals communicate and start spewing their thoughts at some point those that know the thought might agree with it and both start to claim that said thought is truth. Well we can easily see how this process can derail into fun uman violent events.
I would contend that relativism is a natural response to the religious and colonial dogma of the past. It's a matter of the pendulum swinging the other way. Perhaps too far, yes, but that seems to be how the moral arc of history bends. (At least until we learn to pursue truth with a healthy dose of epistemological humility.)
Yes, we are in a period of ideological chaos, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Ideology, especially religion, has helped unite large groups of people, but it has also been deeply divisive. Relativism doesn't need to become another dogma. For me, it's simply a recognition that we all come from different places, hold different perceptions of truth (moral or otherwise), and need to respect one another's truths, while humbly remembering that our own are likely flawed.
We have to remain open to each other, even when we disagree. Even when we are repulsed by one another's beliefs or behaviors. Without openness, there can be no real conversation, and no opportunity to help each other grow. We just stay divided.
Relativism shouldn't be weaponized. But neither should universalism. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
"That said, I think we can create something new out of a fractured, relativist, post-modern world, but we have to be willing to resist these trends and be unwavering in our commitment to objectivity. "
I like the optimism of this statement, I'm not sure I personally have the strength, but I hope it's easier for others than me.