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To: Elsie
Well, if you have a pluralistic society where there is no consensus on morality (beyond the basic idea that murder and theft are "bad") then the only link between law and morals is based on political power. Without a belief in a universal moral code there is no objective standard, and therefore (in a democratic system) it all boils down to numbers. Laws become decided purely on the political "punch" of those who are concerned enough to express an opinion. To a certain extent this has always happened, but its never been solely true, certainly in Western nations before.

You are right. It's going to get worse.

182 posted on 03/29/2013 5:51:29 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9
It's going to get worse.

Yup...

America has not learned it's lesson yet...


Haggai 1:5-11

5 Now this is what the Lord Almighty says:
“Give careful thought to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

7 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
“Give careful thought to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the Lord. 9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house. 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”





 

2 Chronicles 7:14

If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,

then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.

184 posted on 03/29/2013 6:21:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Vanders9

“then the only link between law and morals is based on political power.”

Very true. Another consequence of that is those who are in the minority will be more likely to disobey the laws, since they won’t recognize them as fair laws, but simply impositions to be dispensed with when it is convenient.


200 posted on 04/01/2013 6:07:26 AM PDT by Boogieman
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