Relativism

In “Relativism,” Rushdoony argues that denying God leads inevitably to the denial of objective meaning, right and wrong, and moral limits, leaving society governed only by interest, power, and the expanding authority of the state. He critiques relativism as a self-blinding faith that mistakes subjective experience for reality, using it to erase moral distinctions and absolutes while claiming intellectual sophistication. This worldview, he contends, undercuts any principled resistance to tyranny, dissolves the foundations of education, marriage, and work, and trains people especially the young for irrelevance, anarchy, and ultimately slavery. Because politics and culture are inseparable from religious presuppositions, the spread of relativism accelerates social decay and statist control, whereas only faith in God and His unchanging truth can provide meaning, liberty, and a future grounded on the Rock rather than the shifting sands of unbelief.