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Thoughts on relativism.

A local - hate to say it - “gay activist” wrote a post on relativism entitled, “Thoughts On Relativism”.  It was essentially a contradiction and challenge to what Archbishop Nienstedt writes for our archdiocesan newspaper, The Catholic Spirit.  (I’m not linking to any of this.)

I found the post curious since the author seems desirous of rebutting any and all accusations of relativism leveled against any of the dissidents he represents, by what reads to me to be a nearly perfect definition of relativism.  He wrote:

“…most contemporary US Catholics form their convictions and make their moral judgments in reliance on what they have learned from broader communities than just the Catholic Church. Can we be sure that we have absolute truth? No. Depending on how much responsibility we take for inquiring, we can only get as close as humans have currently come to it. It is relative truth, relative to our time, our cultural programming, and our finite minds.” - Wild Reed

That is pretty much the relativist creed, isn’t it?  Oh!  I get it - perhaps the author actually means to defend  the dictatorship* of relativism.

(*Pope Benedict XVI often refers to it as a dictatorship.)