It’s rare that moral relativists actually use the exact same language that we use when we’re sarcastically putting words in their mouths (‘everyone has their own reality’, ‘we must listen to the voices of the terrorist Other’, etc):
The top Presbyterian church official in Chicago has angered Jewish leaders in this city who say a meeting he and other Presbyterians had with Hezbollah last month was “unconscionable.”
The Rev. Bob Reynolds, head of the Chicago Presbytery, said the meeting in southern Lebanon took place in early November and was part of a tour of the Middle East. “The goal of my trip was educational,” Reynolds said. “I think one way people can learn from one another is to learn the way people talk about themselves and describe their own reality. In some small measure that did happen on this visit.”
This morning, Hezbollah “described their reality” as one in which they’d like to infiltrate across the border and attack Israel. How educational.
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