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It's easy to see how people slide into moral relativism, isn't it? You could equate a French Resistance fighter in WWII to a teenage Palestinian homicide bomber and come at it from endless angles of thought and analysis, and what you'd have in the final analysis are two dead guys.

Who really, really believed in something once.

121 posted on 04/26/2002 1:08:05 PM PDT by Burn24
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>>>It's easy to see how people slide into moral relativism, isn't it?

It is much easier to be a relativist. There are indeed somethings we can't judge, and this impossibility makes relativism so attractive because it makes dealing with that fact easy. The mere fact that we may not be qualified to judge a particular issue, however, does not mean there is an eternal truth there. That truth is not changed by our social customs, but is set by the living God. Our understanding of that truth may change, but it does not. Fully accepting all of this is a very hard line to walk down. It is so easy to fall off the line toward either side and say (in error) "its all relative" or "its all a sin." Catholicism seeks a balance in truth, not in ease.

God bless,

patent

122 posted on 04/26/2002 1:24:20 PM PDT by patent
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