End of Relativism?

Just before Pope Benedict was elected pontiff, he gave an amazing homily. (That's the preaching part of the Catholic mass, right after the gospel reading.) Cardinal Ratzinger spoke about how the greatest threat to humanity was the "dictatorship of relativism."

To me, as a philosophy minor at American University, a catholic, and dealing with a huge public corruption investigation in New Jersey on behalf of a client fighting for reform, relativism is the belief that just about anything is OK. There is no "right" or "absolutes". If you believe something that I do not believe- you are not wrong, nor am I. As Cardinal Ratzinger put it you "are swept along by every wind of teaching".

This movement is just one of the many ways that the American Left has completely screwed up and been truly "believed" out of relevance or any real meaning by the conservative movement. The Red State stand for something Bush and the Blue State stand for everything and nothing all at once Kerry. You can accept and understand another person's viewpoint without agreeing with them. And still respect them, even love them but #1 have your own set of defined beliefs and #2 stick to them.

I'm predicting that over the next 25 years that this Pope's "campaign for truth" (note me not saying crusade against relativism) will have a tremendous ideological impact on the world influencing everything from American politics and consumerism to our most personal beliefs.