The New Absolutes

by William D. Watkins

Those who claim tolerance and decry moral absolutes are the very ones imposing on society - Our society's problems are no longer "out there" somewhere. They affect our everyday work and family life and how we raise our children. Under the guise of tolerance, relativism, and a professed attitude of "live and let live," new ideas are being advanced of what is true and right for all of Family is any grouping of two or more people. Religion should be banned from public life. Any sexual activity between consenting parties is moral. Politically incorrect viewpoints should be silenced. Our culture's consensus of what is true and right is shifting not because we as a society have become tolerant of all views and lifestyles, but because we are trading what we once believed to be true for new beliefs. Ten beliefs once held to be absolutely true are being trampled by ten new beliefs the personally and socially destructive new absolutes. If the new absolutes are not exposed and opposed they will lead to cultural collapse. "William D. Watkins has exposed the hypocrisy of the relativists and in so doing has made a major contribution to the critical struggle of our age. What is right? What is wrong? What is good? What is true? Those who claim not to know the answers to these big questions invariably substitute their own absolutes for the ones they have abandoned." Dr. Michael Jones, Editor, Culture Wars , Author, Degenerate Moderns

319 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 1997

Reviews

[James Byerley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This author has encouraged me as a writer and I consider him a mentor. With "The New Absolutes", he was among the first to expose (place or identify) moral relativism and place it on a map from a Christian perspective. If you want a book that addresses truth through apologetics, you will enjoy it. It is still highly relevant today!

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

Essays on ten old and new absolutes, traditional & PC, affecting Western culture, specifically America. (On reflection, I wonder why I gave it away.)

[Frederick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reasonably interesting and very prophetic. Not a great book but one that does have particular meaning these days.

[Node · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting book. Yet the arguments feel they could have been argued more strongly.