I was raised in the Southern Baptist tradition. I remember participating in Christian apologetics studies as early as high school, and many of them dealt with the question of objective truth and morality. Christian apologists like Ravi Zacharias and Josh McDowell railed against the view gaining traction in postmodernity that morality is relative or subjective. I remember watching Highway Media's man-on-the-street interviews asking people about their views on truth, produced for the purpose of exposing these un-Christian and dangerous views.
This was a big deal in evangelical circles. Belief in subjective morality was seen as a cancer within society, allowing people to do what they want and hold uncritical beliefs. We were taught that an important criterion for being a Christian was submitting to the idea that truth is absolute and that morality is objective, put in place by God.
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