On Moral Relativism

"The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light; but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be."

Matthew 6: 22-23
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MORALITY being a universal application of the ethical reality that is derived from the absolute good shared in common with the mind of God and the will of honorable religion duly responds to the eternal law of God because of faith and right reason.

Secularism is not inimical to morality because it responds to human reason yet human reason being by itself broken creates in secularism a double standard of doubt and denial about things universal and absolute to which it responds by a common doctrine of human individualism and material fundamentalism that emphasize the self and the physicality of the created universe to banish it's doubts about human universality and complete it's will of denial of spiritual absolutes.

Let us not discount though the positive achievements of secularism in our history that have continued on to benefit our present times. The dilution of the concentration to religious inclusivity that was brought about by the birth of secularism during the middle ages have weakened the fabric of social exclusivity that have made particular human cultures unavailable to each other in the deeper, more meaningful sense of universality and common humanity. This act of Divine Providence in my own most humble appreciation utilized the brokenness of human reason to open the way for greater principles of social adaptation and Christian liberty that have positively benefited our world in terms of a better understanding of our common human needs. This in turn have led to greater willingness of acceptance and toleration of differences and the hope that believe in change as an absolute (in sharp contrast to the absolute good as manifest in the pre-existence of good in our original creation). This belief is the bedrock foundation of the principle of second chances which is a congruent earthly virtue to the heavenly virtue of mercy. The difference in the two is that charity is the locus of the latter and self is the locus of the former, both are good but only mercy is an absolute good.

However, intolerance is not the result of a secular void of spiritual truths but in moral relativism.

Immorality, on the other hand, for all it's evil is a response of the human will and reason to the absoluteness of truth albeit in the negative form, the will is still empowered by reason even if reason is misguided whether purposefully or through lack of the same.

Moral relativism completely denies the human will any foundations that serve to empower truly human choices because reason itself is made ignorant of it's own being. And so the heart that perceives the darkness utterly convinced that it sees the light is a morally relativistic heart, a dangerous heart and allied only to it's own woundedness, oftentimes angry and alone; a heart that needs spiritual healing that it may once again be free.

Moral relativism in any human culture breeds into any human society a prevailing air of lack of human respect and this lack of human respect is the one common ground upon which all the diverse forms of human intolerance take it's root, most specifically and most especially religious intolerance.

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.