Christianity exemplifies moral relativism masquerading as objectivity. Despite claiming access to unchanging divine moral truths, Christian positions on fundamental issues have consistently evolved to match prevailing cultural attitudes. Slavery was once defended with extensive biblical justification, women's subordination was presented as God's eternal design, and lending at interest was condemned as sinful - yet all these positions were quietly abandoned when they became socially untenable. This pattern reveals that Christian morality is essentially reactive, adapting to secular moral progress while retroactively claiming these changes represent deeper understanding of unchanging principles. The very fact that interpretations of supposedly clear divine commands shift so predictably with social attitudes exposes the relativistic nature of the system.

What makes Christianity's relativism particularly problematic is its simultaneous denial of this reality. By claiming moral objectivity while practicing moral flexibility, Christianity avoids the intellectual honesty that explicit relativism requires. True relativists acknowledge that moral judgments are contextual and changeable; Christianity makes contextual, changeable moral judgments while insisting they reflect eternal, absolute truths. This allows believers to feel morally superior to relativists while actually being relativists themselves - they simply lack the self-awareness or honesty to admit it. The result is a moral system that combines the dogmatism of absolutism with the inconsistency of relativism, creating the worst aspects of both approaches while claiming the virtues of neither.