Posted on 09/20/2011 9:08:44 PM PDT by ReformationFan
Last week, David Brooks of The New York Times wrote a column on an academic study concerning the nearly complete lack of a moral vocabulary among most American young people. Below are some excerpts from Brooks' summary of the study of Americans aged 18 to 23. (It was led by "the eminent Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith.")
"Smith and company asked about the young people's moral lives, and the results are depressing …
"When asked to describe a moral dilemma they had faced, two-thirds of the young people either couldn't answer the question or described problems that are not moral at all …
"Moral thinking didn't enter the picture, even when considering things like drunken driving, cheating in school or cheating on a partner …
"The default position, which most of them came back to again and again, is that moral choices are just a matter of individual taste …
"As one put it, 'I mean, I guess what makes something right is how I feel about it. But different people feel different ways, so I couldn't speak on behalf of anyone else as to what's right and wrong …
"Morality was once revealed, inherited and shared, but now it's thought of as something that emerges in the privacy of your own heart."
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
Ben Franklin quipped, “If we don't hang together, by Heavens we shall hang separately...”
I would put this differently: If Christians, ( despite our sectarian differences), don't march together, we will surely be marched to cattle cars together!
Let's put aside the snide snipes at the religious beliefs of others.
The Saints of fundamentalist secular humanism are the Single Mother and the Homeless Drunkard/Junkie.
The reproductive fitness of agnostics, Non-Christians and atheists
, has been impacted?
The reproductive fitness of agnostics, Non-Christians and atheists
, has been impacted?
[The reproductive fitness of agnostics, Non-Christians and atheists, has been impacted?]
QE1, QE2, QE3...
Evidently an economic engine doesn’t run so well on demoralized a$$paper.
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
>>I have no idea what you’re talking about.
QE1, QE2, QE3... AKA the systemic corruption and demoralization of our financial infrastructure.
Kinda like that time back when...
“Gee, Moses has been up on that hill an awful long time. He and his God must be dead; so hey, let’s just throw all our gold into the fire and worship what comes out, again”
It’s a Ba’al out, get it? {badumpump}
Sorry my friend, you just don’t make any sense to me. Thanks for the time.
Sorry my friend, you just don’t make any sense to me. Thanks for the time.
Were Liar Loans moral?
That would depend on the individual. Myself, I give no thought to their morality.
>>Myself, I give no thought to their morality.
But, assuming you work and pay taxes, you’ll be paying for it.
The redistribution of wealth to prop up the financial system as a result of this FRAUD is a perfect example of how reproductive resources are affected by cultural morality - or amorality, as the case may be.
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