The Good Life

When you hear a relativist tout postmodern morality, we shouldn't be surprised to find that they are secular. Sometimes they're agnostic, occasionally Buddhist, usually atheist. I am surprised to hear Christians throwing it around.

Someone very close to me, whom I knew to be a "lifelong Christian," after years of showing wisdom finally defined their tolerance saying, "Everyone must find their own path. They all lead to the same place, so we mus'n't judge. What is true for you may not be true for him." (This was in response to my outspoken fears that a mutual friend was going to ruin their life.)

At the time I let it sit for another day.
Do NOT do that.
That person is lost and gone now, too late to discuss the (what may be mortal) fallacy of that thought.*

If it isn't too tedious, let us break that statement down into parts.
"Everyone must find their own path," sounds to me like a euphemistic way of declaring anarchy. Should everyone have a different role in life? Yes. Should everyone be individual? Yes. Should everyone be free to make their own decisions? Yes.
But it is not within our power that our moral declarations would all become true any more than characters I draw leap off the page to life.
Truth is exclusive by definition. Therefore, "what is true for you may not be true for him" only sounds good in a StarWars movie, but not as actual philosophy. I cannot think Christ is the only way, and you think Muhammad the only true prophet and we both be right. One must be wrong. Believing a truth isn't narrow-minded - but it narrow is. It is truth, therefore defining, narrowing, limiting. Narrow-mindedness one the other hand is an attack on the person but sidestepping the issue. Ad hominem debate isn't really debate: its just Latin for 'name-calling.' We don't do that.

Now let me go back to the "mus'n't judge statement." We are told not to judge, yes? But in the same line, we are told to judge. Now which is it? The word in Greek is the same for condemn. We must not condemn. I am told to judge an action, but not the man. Therefore if I say, "You liar! You are going to h-e-double toothpick!" well, then, I have condemned a person for lying.
On the other hand, calling someone out when they do lie (make sure they are, in fact, lying) is our Christian and godly duty. It would be neglect, like watching a floundering man drown, to say nothing. So, do not be thrown off when someone tells you not to judge. Just point them to the part in the Bible where it says do not do (whatever it is they are doing) and say, "I'm just making an observation."

What might one hear in return? "You're narrow-minded!" is often the response I get. I usually just say, "Do you think so? Are you? No? Then are you willing to look closely at the claims and historicity of Christ? Why not? Oh. Well, you must be narrow-minded too. At least we have something in common!" (and smile.)

Its easy to assume that "being spiritual" leads to spirituality.
Demons, however are just as spiritual as angels. Be careful to whom you pledge allegiance.

*"Today is the day of salvation," indeed. I do not think this person lost, I will leave judgment up to God. It is His alone. But I fear. More importantly though, I hope.