Moral Relativism Part 2: The Culture of Violence

If Part 1 showed how moral relativism erodes dignity, Part 2 is about what happens when that erosion finally shows itself in blood.

For decades, our culture has been rewriting the value of human life. Until recently, even government-funded companies (Planned Parenthood) treated humans as disposable raw material—an inconvenient truth we’d rather not discuss. But once a society normalizes the idea that a life can be used, discarded, or “recycled,” the door swings wide open. Because if a child in the womb isn’t sacred, why should a child in the classroom be?

And here’s where it gets darker: pop culture glamorizes what once would have horrified us. Remember Star Wars: Episode III? The chilling moment when Anakin Skywalker walks into the Jedi Temple and massacres the younglings? That scene was crafted to shock us, yes—but it also turned child-murder into cinematic spectacle. It became part of the mythos of a hero-turned-villain. That’s how moral relativism sneaks in: evil gets packaged as tragedy, as drama, even as entertainment.

Now connect the dots. We send generations of kids through government schools and universities where they’re taught, explicitly or implicitly, that human beings are cosmic accidents. Not image-bearers of God. Not eternal souls. Just matter in motion—no more valuable than cockroaches. Then we wonder why some of those same kids grow up to see no difference between pulling a trigger on a classmate and squashing a bug.

It’s not insanity. It’s logic. If life is meaningless, if morality is relative, and if there are no ultimate consequences—no God, no judgment, no accountability—then why wouldn’t someone act on their darkest impulses? Why wouldn’t they replicate the very horrors they’ve been told are “just stories”?

This is why we see the rise in school shootings, random violence, and acts of cruelty that seem unthinkable to previous generations. They’re not random. They are the predictable outcomes of a society that gutted the sacredness of life and replaced it with relativism.

History offers grim reminders. Greece collapsed not just from enemies but from decadence, greed, and relativism. Rome fell not only to barbarians but because it first rotted from within. Once life no longer had an objective value, civilization itself became brittle. America is no different.

The hard truth is this: the philosophy being spoon-fed to our children is producing the headlines we see today. And unless we return to the one worldview that gives life meaning—the biblical truth that we are made in God’s image, accountable to Him, capable of choosing good over evil—we will continue down the same destructive road.

Moral relativism doesn’t just cheapen life. It makes violence inevitable

Below are the links to all of the articles in this series:

Moral Relativism, Part 1: Black Lives Matter and the Death of Moral Certainty in America

Moral Relativism Part 2: The Culture of Violence

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