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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Feelings

With the decline of the authority of Judeo-Christian values in the West, many people stopped looking to external sources of moral standards in order to decide what is right and wrong.

Instead of being guided by God, the Bible and religion, great numbers — in Western Europe, the great majority — have looked elsewhere for moral and social guidelines.

For many millions in the twentieth century, those guidelines were provided by Marxism, Communism, Fascism or Nazism. For many millions today, those guidelines are .. feelings.

With the ascendancy of leftist values that has followed the decline of Judeo-Christian religion, personal feelings have supplanted universal standards.

In fact, feelings are the major unifying characteristic among contemporary liberal positions.

Aside from reliance on feelings, how else can one explain a person who believes, let alone proudly announces on a bumper sticker, that “War is not the answer?

I know of no comparable conservative bumper sticker that is so demonstrably false and morally ignorant.

Almost every great evil has been solved by war — from slavery in America to the Holocaust in Europe.

Auschwitz was liberated by soldiers making war, not by pacifists who would have allowed the Nazis to murder every Jew in Europe.




Read Dennis Prager

Comments

I hate to break it to you Bezu Fache, but maybe `feelings’ have always decided what is moral or not. If you had actually read the bible, you would no that God had no problem with genocide (how many times, under the direction of God, did Joshua massacre every living being in the cities he invaded?).

And then there is rape. If a virgin girl is raped, the rapist must give 100 sheckles to the father, and then the rapist and the victim must get married. How’s that for morality?

So, my point is, a `Christian’ who is opposed to genocide, and the rape of virgins, maybe picking and choosing their morality anyway. So much for getting their morality from God.

If you actually want to find out about the source of morality, there are plenty of evolutionists that have a fairly good idea. Check out Richard Dawkins for example. His book, `The God Delusion’, covers pretty much everything one needs to know to realize that religion is only for the foolish and brainwashed.


“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.” —George Orwell

Angry Vertebrate on January 29, 2007 at 12:41 am

AV
Than you for your time and consideration.


Nowadays falsehood stands erect and truth lies prostrate on the ground.

Bezu Fache on January 29, 2007 at 02:19 am
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