False Ideas About Truth - Part 2 by Dr. Joe L. Mott on March 30, 2026

References: (1) “Metaphysics” by Aristotle. (2) Aristotle’s definition of truth: “To say of what IS that it is, and of what IS NOT that it is not, is TRUE; while to say of what is that it is not, or what is not that it is, is FALSE.” (3) Postmodernism, the predominant worldview of secularity, now poses its answer that truth and morality are RELATIVE. Moral relativism’s answer is that we have NO OBJECTIVE STANDARD by which we determine right and wrong. One person’s OPINION is just as valid as another’s. Morality is simply a matter of PERSONAL PREFERENCE, which results from one’s cultural, ethnic, or sexual orientation. Postmodernism continues its CONFUSING PRONOUNCEMENTS by saying that truth is also relative, saying there is NO SUCH THING as ABSOLUTE TRUTH. (4) We all know some things, for example, 2 + 2 = 4. It does not equal 3 and it does not equal 5. At exactly 212 degrees Fahrenheit, water boils. At 32 degrees Fahrenheit, water freezes. In every area of mathematics, medicine, science, archaeology, accounting, chemistry, geography, or geology, there are areas that cannot be COMPROMISED. Yet, when it comes to religion and morality, we are TOLD THAT THE RULES DON’T APPLY. How can it BE that the rules apply in other areas of study, but not on morality and religion? (5) Why do we demand truthfulness in every other area of life except that which pertains to morality and religion? Our secular culture has BLINDLY EMBRACED the claim that absolute truth does not exist. The prevailing attitude is that it is all a MATTER OF OPINION. And who are we to judge anyway? If truth is relative, then no one is ever WRONG. (6) “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” by Norman Geisler and Frank Turek. (7) “Truth Decay” by Steve Hale. (8) “Truth is not a SUBJECTIVE matter of TASTE, but an OBJECTIVE matter of FACT. Truth is truth no matter WHERE YOU LIVE on the planet. Those who claim that truth in morality doesn’t really matter take a different stance when someone treats them immorally. For example, they may claim that LYING isn’t wrong, until someone LIES TO THEM. Moral relativists don’t want their spouses to live like relativists. A wife doesn’t want her husband to be relatively faithful. Most male relativists expect their wives to live as if ADULTERY were absolutely WRONG. Do you think the moral relativists would ACCEPT the morality of a MURDERER or a RAPIST. Someone has said, ‘Moral law is not always the STANDARD by which we treat others, but it is nearly always the standard by which we EXPECT others to treat us.’ When people are the VICTIMS of bad behavior, they have NO TROUBLE understanding that the behavior is ABSOLUTELY WRONG.” This is episode 269.