{"id":28612,"date":"2013-04-15T12:55:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=28612"},"modified":"2016-12-24T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T14:41:09","slug":"wrong-is-wrong-even-if-everybodys-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wrong-is-wrong-even-if-everybodys-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong is wrong even if everybody\u2019s wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I was a kid, my father used to say to me, \u201cRight is right even if nobody\u2019s right, and wrong is wrong even if everybody\u2019s wrong.\u201d That pearl of wisdom really stuck with me. Now, as an adult, and being the type of black-and-white person that I am, I\u2019m extremely troubled by how moral relativism is destroying the fabric of society. My unwavering conviction, and 34 years of Bible-believing Christianity, informs my belief that fallible people acting as autonomous gods can only cause much suffering for everyone, regardless of what they believe.<\/p>\n

Modern society has devolved to the point where the right to do whatever you want takes precedence over doing what is actually<\/em> right. Killing unborn babies has morphed into the “right to choose,” sodomy has mutated into gay rights, and bilking the system, as a way of life more than seven generations after the fact, has become the right to reparations for slavery.<\/p>\n

Double-destruction has befallen us, because the Bible<\/a> says, \u201cWoe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.\u201d Moral relativism has delivered \u201cwoe\u201d to those who refuse to acknowledge the true difference between right and wrong.<\/p>\n

Thirty years ago, I had a conversation with a moral relativist that I\u2019ve never forgotten.<\/p>\n

The young man was indignant that I dared to suggest that there are moral absolutes. My argument was that the Bible says that human beings intrinsically know the difference between right and wrong, indicating that, like it or not, there are standards. My point was that moral relativism is merely an effort to quell the conscience<\/a> and make excuses for a sin nature that, without the constraints of God\u2019s truth, is capable of fantasizing, stalking, trapping, and then cannibalizing<\/a> another human being.<\/p>\n

The moral relativist continued to stress that there are no moral absolutes and that the concept of right and wrong is relative to many factors. His premise was that the individual, not God or others, should judge personal truth. That\u2019s when I asked him, \u201cOh, so if you lived next-door to a child molester and they felt that having sex with a five-year-old was acceptable, you\u2019d be fine with them sexually abusing your child?\u201d<\/p>\n

My stammering opponent responded to that absurdity by saying, \u201cThat\u2019s taking things a little too far!\u201d I then asked, \u201cAre you then saying there is a standard for right and wrong, and the difference is that you get to set the standard?\u201d That question was followed by a couple of seconds of uncomfortable\u00a0silence. Yet I persisted: \u201cSo, in your opinion, raping children is wrong? Therefore, even though you don\u2019t want God or society to impose their morality on you, you\u2019re comfortable imposing your morality on the pervert with a lecherous eye on your preschooler?\u201d<\/p>\n

Shocking as it may sound, that particular person was so steeped in the desire not to judge or offend that he actually said, \u201cWell, I guess I really couldn\u2019t say anything, because it wouldn\u2019t be my right to impose my standards on the guy next-door just because he likes to have sex with children.”<\/p>\n

For the committed moral relativist, chancing sacrificing his child to the wiles of\u00a0molester is certainly a high price to be willing to pay to preserve the right to retain a subjective (and in this case, disgusting) preference.<\/p>\n

Currently, Americans live in a culture where individuals arrive at conclusions based on limited life experience, a faulty knowledge base, and ambivalent emotion, all of which are influenced by lies, skewed perception, and human weakness. Add to that the growing belief that moral values are not divinely mandated, or commonly relevant, and you have a recipe for disaster.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, when I read stories like the one where an Oklahoma mother and her 11-year-old son were arrested after the boy purportedly raped<\/a> his 6-year-old sister and the\u00a0mother told the girl\u00a0not to tell anyone, I\u2019m not shocked.<\/p>\n

However, what\u00a0is\u00a0shocking is the public\u2019s response to a sexualized youngster raised in an atmosphere void of moral restraint acting accordingly. A young child violates his little sister, and the culture that\u2019s guilty of cultivating and encouraging\u00a0degenerate behavior asks why?<\/p>\n

The bigger question here\u00a0isn’t\u00a0why things like this\u00a0happen, but rather who among us has the right to say that what the boy did was wrong? Who has the right to tell a mother that failing to report forced juvenile incest is unacceptable? Isn\u2019t drawing an ethical line in the sand and saying that there is something very wrong with a child raping a sibling and their mother attempting to cover it up just imposing a standard of morality on a family whose measure of decency may be different from our own?<\/p>\n

By adhering to the tenet of moral relativism alone, moral relativists and their ilk have zero right to oppose any kind of behavior standards on anyone, even if such perverse or evil conduct shocks their sense or negatively impacts their lives.<\/p>\n

Remember, the price of subjective preference can be very high.<\/p>\n

The older I get, the more I understand what my father was saying. Attempting to run a society based on the belief that morality\u2019s canon is independently decided upon seems like a great idea until some lunatic shoots up an elementary school, or a prepubescent brother rapes his little sister. That is when the ramifications of a misguided ideology that preaches the abolishment of moral absolutes end up proving that \u201cright is right even if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong even if everyone is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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