It is not absolutely wrong to give someone the finger. Before you think that I have a habit of flipping people off, let me get to my point. My point is about truth, about right and wrong. “Truth” is the way things are, reality, truth is what is. “Right” is what is good, what should be, what should be done. “Wrong” is what is evil, what should not be, should not be done. Absolute truth is true for all people, everywhere, all the time. Absolute right and wrong is right or wrong for all people, everywhere, all the time. For example: Rape, murder, and many other such behaviors, are absolutely wrong. The statement, “Marriage is a lifelong relationship between a man and a woman,” is an absolute truth. The statement, “Jesus is the only way to God,” is an absolute truth. Not all statements or behaviors are absolutes , but some are. There is such a thing as absolute truth. There is such a thing as absolute right and wrong. But the concept of absolutes is not popular in our culture. Our culture still holds some things as true, some things as right or wrong, but, in general, we do not believe in absolutes. We are relativistic. Relativism is the denial of objective, universal truth or morality. Truth varies from person to person and from culture to culture. “Christianity may be your way to God, but Islam is my way to God.” “It might be okay for you to practice homosexuality, but not for me.” “A woman has the right to choose what she does with her own body.” And the sad thing is that a lot of Christians think this way. According to researchers, only 52% of Christian teenagers disagreed with the statement, “Muslims and Christians pray to the same God.” And only about 40% of evangelical young adults think it’s always wrong to have premarital sex. The only way you can read your Bible, claim to follow Jesus, and still think that way is to be a relativist. You have to abandon the idea of absolute truth. You may think that the Bible is true, but is it absolutely true? I don’t think giving someone the finger is absolutely wrong. In other countries the middle finger may mean something totally different or nothing at all. So I admit that some issues may vary, but there is still such a thing as absolute truth. It is always right to love. It is always right to be honest. It is always wrong to practice extramarital sex or homosexuality. It is always wrong to kill a baby. It is absolutely true that Jesus is God-man come to save the world. It is absolutely false that Allah is God. Many Christians, especially younger Christians, are losing the ability to think at this level, to discern what is absolute and what is not. Either that or they’re just afraid to speak up for what is true.