Earlier this week we posted an excerpt from When Worlds Collide by R. C. Sproul (Was 9/11 a Senseless Tragedy?) We continue today with Sproul briefly explaining one consequence of 9/11 that he is in fact thankful for:
One of the things that I am grateful for as a consequence of the tragedy that befell the United States on 9/11 is something we began to hear on television. Suddenly it was politically acceptable for the media to speak of real, objective evil. Indeed, when I watched the buildings implode, I knew we had marked a turning point of moral relativism in American history. The events of 9/11 were a mortal blow to relativism, because the response of Americans and the response of people the world over, after looking at this heinous attack on human life, was the very “unrelativistic” declaration that “This is evil.”
Recently I saw that same affirmation made by a national news service, where a headline bulletin on the screen proclaimed, “The end of moral relativism.” One cannot have such a shocking encounter with pure evil and walk away, saying, “Well, it’s a relative thing.”
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