The Shortcomings of Moral Relativism: Part 4
Conclusion
C.S. Lewis said, “I do not enjoy the society of small children: because I speak from within the Tao I recognize this as a defect in myself.”[33] Here Lewis was using “Tao” to denote an objective standard. In this simple statement, he recognized that he is not the measure of all things, that there is a timeless, uni-versal standard to which we are all duty-bound. Lewis recognized his own falling short of this ultimate standard. For thousands of years, man has tried to define his own morality rather than place his allegiance in something bigger than himself.
We have observed that reality is not some convoluted scheme that we cannot see for what it truly is. We have seen that morality is absolute and universal in character. And because of that, morality must be grounded in something or Someone timeless, unchanging and universal. While the evidence that morality is grounded in the God of Christianity presented here is not exhaustive by any means, it is compelling nonetheless.
My contention is that the Christian worldview is uniquely true. It alone provides the best explanation for morality among other things. And that makes perfect sense because after all, “this is how God made us to think - to think in accord with reality.”[34]
[33] C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (New York: Harper Collins, 1974), 19.
[34] Groothuis, “Facing the Challenge of Postmodernism,” 242.