Hey...I'm just catching up. I liked the Euroweenie comment.
Here's my take on some of this.
Some people's position here on FR is that "Nothing is more certain in modern society than the principle that there are no absolutes". I think Chief Justice Vinson said that.
The problem is that this form of relativism says that there is no truth, and no absolute right or wrong. This pragmatic and positivistic perspective is anti-Christian.
Comte, the supposed "father of sociology" said the quest for meaning and knowledge represents the theological and metaphysical stages of history. Now, in the scientific stage, man moves not in terms of myth and meaning, not in terms of knowledge, but in terms of utility. The real question, we are told, is not "What does this mean?" but, "How can I use it?"
Man must renounce meaning and knowledge for the pragmatic use of things. The goal of learning therefore is not knowledge but the power to manipulate.
Marxism's influence on education is seen in it's relativistic philosphy. Education is hostile to knowledge and we see it in the cynicism in the media or educrats when they talk about family, patriotism, religion, philosophy, theology, etc. History is no longer treated as history, the knowledge of the past, but it is now social science. Philosophy is no longer the love of wisdom or knowledge, but a tool for power. People now study logical analysis and the study of words so they can manipulate and use this as an instrument of power. The goal of philosophy is now seen as pre-scientific.
I believe our founders believed like me...they believed that knowledge was from God. They believed that to deny that there is any absolute truth and absolute knowledge is to deny that there is a God who is the creator and lord over all things, and whose order and truth governs all things and is the source of all truth and knowledge. If there is no absolute knowledge of God and from God in his revelation, then the only absolute in any man's life is himself. Every man is his own god, his own law, and his own source of knowledge.