Francis Schaeffer on Moral Relativism

Schaeffer says:

We in the West must understand that it is not only Iron Curtain countries who operate on the basis of relative morality. Now the West does, too. The materialist world-view has dominated the thinking of the West just as much. Therefore we can expect to see the same inhumanity here, just as Solzhenitsyn has warned. We must not sit back and think, It could never happen here. Worse still, we must not be confused into thinking the issue is principally or only military or economic power. The issue is more subtle, more immediate, a cancer like growth which is in our midst right now – the materialist philosophy which underlies the Western humanistic world-view. Marx may have proposed an economic system different from our own, but we have shared his basic world-view.

Whatever Happened to the Human Race? in vol. 5 of The Complete Works of Francis A Schaeffer: A Christian View of the West. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books. 1982, p. 368.