Posted on 11/01/2009 8:44:17 PM PST by bogusname
The early 21st century stands as a period of profound moral confusion. On the one hand, mothers and doctors are permitted to crack open the skulls and suck out the brains of nearly-born babies with government sanction under the banner of partial birth abortion. Should these very same people hike into the woods and crack open a bald eagle egg, they could face serious prison time.
It would therefore seem that contemporary society is marked by two seemingly contradictory extremes—- that of extreme license and that of excessive control. However, upon closer inspection it could be concluded that these conditions are not as contradictory as the situation might originally appear. Rather, it would seem each is the result of the systematic removal of the ethical balance provided within the Judeo-Christian tradition with its emphasis upon transcendent standards provided by an infinitely just and loving God...
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How can there be a systematic "removal" of "the ethical balance provided within the Judeo-Christian tradition" when such a balance, never mind such a tradition, never existed?
The demonstrates that the lives of animals is valued more than the lives of humans in certain cases under the law.
My short version of article:
If God does not exist, then there is no morality - only the ‘Law of the Jungle, Survival of the Fittest’.
However, mankind’s greatest achievements come only from the strong character imbued with high morales. Morales set by God according to His laws.
That we have morales and a conscious is all the proof needed that God exists.
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