Note:  Each of the five blogs in this series provides examples of offensive apologetic responses to skeptics and other critics. Part ten explains how you can practice these responses in each apologetic category I cover, and therefore be better prepared when your faith is challenged.

Part Fourteen: Responding to Moral Relativism and Religious Pluralism.

1. All religions are just as true and good as Christianity!

• Would you reject child sacrifice as an acceptable religious practice? If so, how can you say that all religions are as true and good as Christianity?
• If your view is correct, on what basis can we condemn the degradation of women practiced in some religions?
• Do you think the traditional Hindu prohibition against reaching out to the so-called “untouchables” is just as virtuous as the Bible’s teaching to help poor and starving people?

2. You Christians have no right to judge other people’s behavior!

• If people can’t judge other people’s behavior, how can laws be formulated to condemn murder and rape?
• If people have no right to judge other people’s behavior, why not torture people for fun on reality television if the public wants to watch it?

3. I think a woman has a right to have an abortion!

• If you were pregnant, what would be inside you—a human or something else?
• If life begins at conception—and science proves it does—the fetus is a human being. Why shouldn’t the law protect an unborn baby just like any other person?
• How can an unborn baby be merely tissue in abortion but a person in the case of fetal homicide laws?

4. All religions are equal—they are just different paths to the same     God!

• How can all religions be paths to the same God when they have different views on the nature of God, the way to achieve salvation, and virtually every other fundamental doctrine?

5. You Christians are so intolerant; you think everyone’s religious beliefs are wrong but yours!

• If you are tolerant, why do you condemn me for having my beliefs?
• You think I’m intolerant because I believe Christianity is God’s only true revelation. Isn’t it a double standard if you’re really tolerant but criticize my beliefs?

 6. It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you feel it meets your spiritual needs!

•  How do feelings make something true?
• What if you’re wrong? Shouldn’t you at least be willing to check out Christianity?
• Christianity is based on facts, not feelings. Why do you think feelings are more reliable than facts?

7. There are no absolute truths!

•   Are you absolutely certain that’s true?
• If there are no absolute truths, why should I believe your statement, “There are no absolute truths? “

9. Even if truth exists, we can’t discover it!

• Why should I believe that statement if truth can’t be discovered?
• Is that a true statement, or are you guessing?

10. A college professor teaches there are no absolute truths!

• Do you believe what you teach is true?
• Do you give true and false tests?
• Does that mean I can give an incorrect answer to you and still be correct because I believe it is correct?

Next week I’ll begin a new series titled “Be Careful What You Say and How You Say It” It will focus on communicating clearly in evangelism and apologetics