The Love of Christ Impels Us

Thanks to Chris Stefanick for giving a great presentation on the dangers of moral relativism last week on campus and thanks to all who came out to attend.  Student Daniel Ruble wrote a great article for the student newspaper about the event which you can read here.   Here's an excerpt: 

Relativism is the ideology that someone can believe something and someone else can believe something completely different, but they will both be right.

"Relativism is the philosophy that there is no truth," Stefanick said. "There is no reality outside of us. Most people today are relativist with just about everything besides math and science. Everything that is scientifically verifiable is true for everyone. No one is going to say 2 plus 2 is 4, but it might be 5 for you."

Stefanick said the idea that there is objective truth should be realized.

"When we take things like ethics, questions of right or wrong, questions of who God is, and we break it down to the level of personal preference, it's subjective," Stefanick said. "Pope Benedict said that relativism is the greatest problem of our time. We can't get away from it. It's hard to even step outside of the frame work that society holds, and if you dare say something like I'm right about x, y or z it will send a chill up people's spines."

Find out more about Chris and find resources about the dangers of relativism here.