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Catholic Answers
April 12, 2023
SAN DIEGO, April 12, 2023 /Christian
Newswire/ -- Can't we just agree that relativism isn't a thing anymore? In a
world gone woke, with corporate and campus thought police patrolling our every
tweet and text, surely the idea that everyone has his or her own "personal
truth" is dead—a Millennial relic. So say our leading cultural influencers,
Christian and secular alike.
But Catholic author and apologist Karlo Broussard says we shouldn't be fooled by
appearances. In The New Relativism: Unmasking the Philosophy of Today's Woke
Moralists, he shows that relativism never went anywhere. It just mutated
into a new form.
Those enforcers of ideological conformity who issue commandments to make sure
we're never racist, sexist, homo/trans-phobic, anti-"science," or judgmental of
other people's lifestyles? They may project a kind of absolutism, but it's a
mask, a smokescreen. Scratch below the surface and you see that they're driven
by the same squishy attitude toward truth and reason that produced the faddish
relativism of recent memory.
"The architects of elite culture didn't change their ideas, just their M.O."
says Todd Aglialoro, director of publishing for Catholic Answers Press. "In
fact, as Broussard makes clear, the coercive moralism that we encounter in
media, big business, schools, and government is what you get when you spend a
generation rejecting objective truth in favor of personal feelings."
And Broussard does more than unmask the new relativism's true face—he shows how
to fight it, offering alternative "commandments," based on natural and Christian
truth, to counteract the poison of wokeness and those who want to force-feed it
to us.
About the Author: Karlo Broussard is a veteran author and staff apologist for
Catholic Answers.
SOURCE Catholic Answers
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