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Relativism poses as humble by saying: __e are not smart enough to know what the truth is__r if there is any universal truth._ It sounds humble. But look carefully at what is happening. It__ like a servant saying: I am not smart enough to know which person here is my master__r if I even have a master. The result is that I don__ have a master and I can be my own master. That is in reality what happens to relativists: In claiming to be too lowly to know the truth, they exalt themselves as supreme arbiter of what they can think and do. This is not humility. This is the essence of pride.
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Relativism poses as humble by saying: __e are not smart enough to know what the truth is__r if there is any universal truth._ It sounds humble. But look carefully at what is happening. It__ like a servant saying: I am not smart enough to know which person here is my master__r if I even have a master. The result is that I don__ have a master and I can be my own master. That is in reality what happens to relativists: In claiming to be too lowly to know the truth, they exalt themselves as supreme arbiter of what they can think and do. This is not humility. This is the essence of pride.
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