Einstein and Moral Relativism

From Paul Johnson's Modern Times - a description of the unintended impact of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

At the beginning of the 1920s the belief began to circulate, for the first time at a popular level, that there were no longer any absolutes: of time and space, of good and evil, of knowledge, above all of value. Mistakenly but perhaps inevitably, relatively became confused with relativism.

...He [Einstein] lived to see moral relativism, to him a disease, become a social pandemic, just as he lived to see his fatal equation bring into existence nuclear warfare.