What do people mean when they say that relativism is killing our consciences? - R.L.

R.L.

Relativism is the idea that there is no absolute truth. It says that one idea is as good as another.  We hear it like this, "Oh, that might be good for you, but I believe something else."  or "Well, 
if that's good for you, fine."  It says I can have one idea and you can have your own and we can both be right.   But this is not what God says! Jesus, the 2nd person of God tells us:  "I am the way and the TRUTH, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. "  John 14:6   In other words, God is Truth.   We also know God is unchanging.  And, because God is Truth and God is unchanging, we can also be sure that Truth is unchanging and hence we can know that there is an ABSOLUTE truth.

If you want to look at this from another front, you can take this idea of relativism to the extreme and see how it can be shown as a falsity... Take Adolf Hitler.  Can we say he was a moral person because he followed what was good for himself?  Absolutely not!  

So, when people say that relativism is killing our consciences, they are saying that people who believe that there could be one truth for one person and another truth for another person, then they are being bent to the ideas of the world and not of God. 

Hope this helps.