Where children learn moral relativism
Philosopher Justin P. McBrayer investigated why so many college freshmen do not believe in moral facts, that certain ethical principles–such as murder is wrong, or it’s wrong to cheat on tests–are...
View ArticleChild abuse as cultural relativism
The New York Times has published a piece condemning the U.S. military for ignoring cases of child sexual abuse in Afghanistan. And yet, a few years earlier, the Times published a piece praising...
View ArticleThe death of relativism?
Can the West keep up its postmodernist ideology of relativism–that there is no moral truth and that all cultures are equally valid–in the face of ISIS terrorism? Andrew Klavan thinks not. From Andrew...
View ArticleMoral relativism gives way to a new moralism
Moral relativism is over. Moral absolutes are back. The problem is, these are new moral absolutes, with little connection to traditional objective morality. And yet because the new moralism is...
View ArticleLooking for a new moral code
Barna has released a fascinating study on Americans’ moral beliefs. Eighty percent are worried about the nation’s moral condition, and yet there is little consensus about what morality is and how we...
View ArticleAre evangelicals responsible for Milo?
How did the gay, profane, iconoclastic Milo Yiannopoulos get to be a poster child for conservative Republicans? Was this due to a surge of pro-gay tolerance? Or have conservative Republicans lost...
View ArticleThe Two Kingdoms Doctrine Does Not Mean Moral Relativism
Some evangelicals and other conservative Christians who support President Trump no matter what he says or does are defending their position by invoking what seems to be the Lutheran doctrine of the Two...
View Article“Muwaji’s Law” against Child-Killing in Brazil
As we blogged about before, Brazil is attempting to outlaw the practice of some indigenous tribes of killing children whom they think are bad luck–children born of single mothers, babies with blemishes...
View ArticleThe Mashup of Nietzsche and Puritanism
How is it that moral relativists--those who don't believe in moral absolutes, who think morality is a cultural or individual construction, who reject traditional morality--are nevertheless so...
View ArticlePower and Moral Purity
The anti-racism protests are a repudiation of moral relativism, which is healthy. Human equality and the worth of each person derive from the Christian and Jewish religions. But many on the left uphold...
View ArticleWhere Relativism Survives
Moral relativism has given way to a new absolutism, in which those who disagree with prevailing progressive moral standards are evil and need to be punished. But many progressive politicians and woke...
View ArticleA Sort of Defense of Woke AI
Google launched its much-hyped entry into large language Artificial Intelligence with Gemini, which can both tell you what you want to know and generate images. The result was a fiasco--but a revealing...
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