Morals, Faith, and Society
How did we come to be here, at the highest point so far in history, and yet at such a historic low. The morals of individuals and society are together crumbling to the ground and leaving only a mockery of right in their place. Organized religions are under attack from all quarters. Society thinks nothing of weekend affairs, getting drunk, or half-naked women everywhere.
Somewhere along the line we have also lost any common sense we once had. It seems to go hand in hand with the degradation of society. Decisions that once were obvious now take so much double speak and politics to make that when all is said and done the problem could have been fixed twice over but is indeed just barely getting underway.
Here you may say, “But, now we are more enlightened and understand that one must be thorough when making a decision.” It’s perfectly true that we need to look at both sides. But when there is an obvious moral issue why does it take so much skirting around the issue and saying everything except what you mean in order to get anything done?
People are afraid to bring morals into decisions because they feel that it’s unwarranted, offensive, or unsound to use such an argument. Leaders thus, being elected by these people, and seeing that the people don’t want morals, keep morals out of their decisions and work. Thus the government becomes immoral and corrupt and causes even more people to give up morals. A vicious downward spiral then ensues which ends in the failure of government, economy, and society. These may be redeemed, but only at great individual costs.
(And hogwash about “enlightenment.” You missed real enlightenment by about 300 years. Try the First Great Awakening.)
Somewhere along the line we have also lost any common sense we once had. It seems to go hand in hand with the degradation of society. Decisions that once were obvious now take so much double speak and politics to make that when all is said and done the problem could have been fixed twice over but is indeed just barely getting underway.
Here you may say, “But, now we are more enlightened and understand that one must be thorough when making a decision.” It’s perfectly true that we need to look at both sides. But when there is an obvious moral issue why does it take so much skirting around the issue and saying everything except what you mean in order to get anything done?
People are afraid to bring morals into decisions because they feel that it’s unwarranted, offensive, or unsound to use such an argument. Leaders thus, being elected by these people, and seeing that the people don’t want morals, keep morals out of their decisions and work. Thus the government becomes immoral and corrupt and causes even more people to give up morals. A vicious downward spiral then ensues which ends in the failure of government, economy, and society. These may be redeemed, but only at great individual costs.
(And hogwash about “enlightenment.” You missed real enlightenment by about 300 years. Try the First Great Awakening.)
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