Relative

Last night I had a long conversation with a group of the people I live with, mainly relating to relativism and absolutism. This is a topic I touched on in my last post when I said that Christianity is self-reliant. Christianity also demands absolute truth. But that's not the message you'll always hear from Christians. This blog is about The Three Fallacies.
Relative truth says that what's truth for you is truth for you, and what's truth for me is truth for me. Absolutism says that, no matter what you think, there is a truth, and if what your think isn't that truth, your wrong.
Absolute truth has gone out of favor over the last century, and is actually quite repugnant as far as the West is concerned. No wonder with the intolerance shown to huge swathes of the population by the few that "had it all down".

Religion is the center stage in the great battle of the truths, and morality is the point of highest contention between Christianity and Humanism. Humanism says that there is no higher power then society to be held responsible to. So, as long as society finds it tolerable, all morality related law should be liberalized to allow for relative truth.
Abortion is a pretty clear example, as for once both sides of the argument are arguing on the right basis. In this debate the humanistic side even calls themselves pro-choice. They say that a woman should be able to make the moral decision for herself. Does she feel morally bound to bring the baby into the world? Sometimes its even, does she feel morally bound to not bring the baby into the world?
In relativism each person is their own judge. Liberalised laws make it possible.
Let me make something clear here. I think this, in general, is a good thing. Were it doesn't harm anyone to allow moral choice, allow moral choice.
But Christianity does demand absolutism. It demands that those who follow it see things in black and white. Right and wrong.
Christians haven't handled the situation very well though, so this tends to manifest in one of three ways. The Three Great Fallacies.
First is absolute rejection of, and meanness to, all who brake Christian moral law. That's just dumb. It's not our place to pass sentence on anyone. That's God's place. We are called to simply love.
Second is to become "tolerant". By which I mean, let others walk all over them, and hide in case the whole "right and wrong" thing offends anyone. This to is really dumb. If you are convinced of a danger as great as a judgment day with God, your not showing love by not warning people. It's not our place to pass sentence, but it is to warn people of the possible charges to be brought against them.
The third great fallacy is trying to break the chain of self-reliance in Christianity. This is most strongly embodied in the post-Christian religions. If your a non-Christian reading this, STAY AWAY from this fallacy. Jesus did not leave room for His words to be taken as just good advice, He did not intend to. Christianity must be taken literally, and in one piece, or not at all.
This, simply, is trying to change the rules. Redefining the rights and wrongs, to be more comfortable. It's a fallacy that's morphing too, from making others more comfortable, to making ourselves more comfortable. So we don't have to change for God, but He must change for us. I fear that this fallacy has crept in far more places in far more subtle ways then anyone truly realises.