Posted on 12/23/2018 6:09:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux
They can sense it. They can feel it. Something is seriously wrong in our civilization, and many people know it. This is why despite the relatively good economic times, most Americans polled say our country is on the “wrong track.” Yet many are like a gravely ill man who knows he’s not well but can’t precisely identify his ailment. Most often, Americans have only a vague sense of cultural malaise, or they “self-diagnose” wrongly.
Years ago I had a brief “state of the nation” discussion with a very fine, older country gentleman. While no philosopher, he did offer the following diagnosis. Struggling for words and gesticulating a bit, he said, “There’s…there’s no morality.”
Most believe morality is important both personally and nationally. We generally agree that an immoral man treads a dangerous path; of course, it’s likewise for two immoral men, five, 53 or 1,053 — or a whole nation-full.
Echoing many Founders, George Washington noted that “morality is a necessary spring of popular government.” The famous apocryphal saying goes, “America is great because America is good, and if she ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
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To cement the point, consider my patent explanation. Who or what determines what this thing we call morality is?
Only two possibilities exist: Either man or something outside of him does. If the latter, something vastly superior and inerrant (i.e., God), then we really can say morality exists, apart from man. It’s real. Yet what are the man-as-measure implications?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
No comparison. I know exactly what's wrong with civilization. Particularly America. Liberalism in all its iterations. In all its forms and disguises.
For civilization to survive we must eradicate all things liberal throughout society. And it must be retroactive.
And, since that's extremely unlikely ............
The ailment is liberalism, aka leftism, progressivism,democrat, media, public education. All things left, the time to purge is nearly upon us.
You are both right. Liberalism’s adoption of immorality as a norm has led society into the pits. The world is not a moral place today and we are paying a price, and it will get worse unless there is a revival of those principles of life set out by God in his Holy Scriptures. I agree completely with those words written, “...America is great because America is good....”
“Restoring Civilization”
Short of an “Act of God”, civilization will not be restored.
As we continue “Slouching Towards Gomorrah” (1996), we have passed the point of no return.
We need to get back to church, family, and community and away from Hollywood which is sort of turning into a decline and fall of the Roman empire sort of spectacle.
Here is an article demonstrating how serious the problem has become when Senators actually reject moral attributes. http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/US.php?id=18637
The Revenge of Conscience (Very good article on moral relativism)
LouAvul: “I know exactly what’s wrong with civilization. Particularly America. Liberalism in all its iterations.”
exnavy: “The ailment is liberalism, aka leftism, progressivism,democrat, media, public education.”
elpadre: “You are both right.”
Why are they right? Why is “what’s wrong” or “the ailment” not the underlying mindset that makes people choose or gravitate toward liberalism?
I’m with you....at least we have a President willing to fight the cancer that the libs have strewed throughout society....
You Sir, have hit the nail squarely on the head!
Read the posts, too. Many great quotes and links to other articles.
“.....most Americans polled say our country is on the “wrong track.” ……
If you can’t see the decline, you’ve been living under a rock for a very long time. At age 81, my remaining time here may be brief. I am happy I had a chance to live in FAR BETTER TIMES.
progressivism,democrat, media, public education.”
elpadre: “You are both right.”
Why are they right? Why is “what’s wrong” or “the ailment” not the underlying mindset that makes people choose or gravitate toward liberalism?
The predominate mode of thought of our culture has become, by leftard mind and thought control, an eclectic mixture of 1)worship of big government and 2) a disintegrated mode of thought.
Seriously wrong?
It’s dead.
For sure, we can’t MAGA unless we MAMA — Make America Moral Again.
The alternative? Well, it was expressed nicely by an old New Yorker cartoon. It featured the Devil addressing a large group of arrivals in Hell and saying, reassuringly, “You’ll find there’s no right or wrong here. Just what works for you.”
It’s an alluring idea — and a powerful one. It creates Hell on Earth, too.
So you’re are saying that the war between good and evil is over—and evil has won? That Satan has beaten God?
Most believe morality is important both personally and nationally.
The issue is the “touch stone” (look it up). How do you test the truth. How do you test what is wrong or right?
As predicted, we live in a time where everyone does what is right in their own eyes. It even changes from day to day, a politician doesn’t lie, he meant it when he said it but that was yesterday.
So what is the touch stone? I was in Mongolia after the demise of the USSR, They quickly discovered their past, Genghis Khan and Buddhism. What will we find?
Excellent article, but the one here is clearer. It’s laid out more logically.
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