![]() ![]() Of course, “There is no objective truth” is itself a truth-statement. After all, we now live in what Pope Benedict XVI famously dubbed the “dictatorship of relativism,” where objective, universal truth is said not to exist. Such an argument might have worked then, one might say, but the objection “To hell with your standard” is exactly what the average person on the street might say today. And the other man very seldom replies: “To hell with your standard.”Īt this point, a twenty-first-century reader might note that Mere Christianity was derived from a series of BBC radio talks that Lewis gave between 19. He is appealing to some kind of standard of behavior which he expects the other man to know about. What interests me about all these remarks is that the man who makes them is not merely saying that the other man’s behavior does not happen to please him. Lewis begins with a seemingly off-topic statement: “Everyone has heard people quarreling.” He gives examples of things people say when they feel they have been mistreated: “How’d you like it if anyone did the same to you?” or “Come on, you promised.” Lewis notes: ![]()
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