Choose
Your own Values By
D. Gene West
Not too long ago I ran across a book entitled, Harmful
to Minors–The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex,
written by the
Brooklyn-based journalist Judith Levine. Levine founded the feminist
organization, “No More Nice Girls.” The foreword to
the book was written by
Joycelyn Elders. The premise of the book is that pedophiles are usually
harmless people. She urged that sex is a wonderful part of growing up
and that
teens and children can “enjoy the pleasures of the
body” and at the same time
be safe. Ms. Levine was interviewed, due to the book she had written,
by a
reporter from a Minneapolis
newspaper just after the terrible controversy began to rage over sexual
abuse
by priests. She commented in the story that a sexual relationship
between a
priest and a boy could “conceivably, absolutely be a positive
experience.” She
went on to assert that a sexual relationship between an older person
and a
teenager could be “more like salvation than
victimization.” You do not have to
be a rocket scientist to know what values this woman has chosen! I
certainly do
not want her around my grandchildren! Is Ms. Levine a wicked and evil
person?
Not according to the moral relativist. She has simply chosen her own
set of
values and no one has the right to criticize that.
Just following WWII, there was a lengthy period of “war
crime trials” in Germany
in which the leaders of the Nazi regime, who did not commit suicide,
were tried
for their crimes against the Jews, Poles and other non-Aryan groups.
Many of
these leaders were sentenced to life in prison, and some were sentenced
to
death. Did the Allies have the right to do this? No, not according to
the moral
relativists. The Nazis had a right to choose their own values and live
according to those values, even if it did involve the
“extermination” of God
only knows how many people. Nazi values said that they had the right to
conquer
and rule the world. They had chosen those values; who were the Allies
to
contest those values? Where did we get that right? According to the
moral
relativists, we did not have the right!
The thinking of the moral relativists, such as we have
illustrated above, removes all incentive to live ethically and to
cultivate a
higher character than the heathens of our world. Embracing this kind of
thinking contributes to the corruption of the human character. No one
who
adopts this kind of empty-headed thinking will ever strive for
excellence in
any sphere of life. The adoption of this thinking is the very reason
“enlightened
society” is today falling far below any kinds of standards of
morality, and
finds itself groveling on the level of animals! God deliver us from the
relativists!
“For
the invisible things of him from the creation of the world
are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even
his
eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because
that, when
they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful;
but became
vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:20-22).
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