Generation Y
Written by Mark Harris on April 12th, 2005“Modernism is the synthesis of all heresies” - Pope Pius X
The following Washington Times article is a harrowing must read, but the more I’ve been invovled in politics and the more I’ve had exposure to folks like Ben Wetmore, the more I’ve realized that the great issues of our day are not taxes and economic issues though those are important. Rather it is the cultural decay we have allowed to happen.
We must stand, in the words of William F. Buckley, athwart of history yelling stop! For if we allow our values, religion, and culture to entirely become the souless “worship of the almighty dollar” (hat tip to B. Wetmore on that quote) then 0% taxes won’t solve our problems. Good economic policy is fantastic, but it means nothing if we have no moral grounding for society. New age religious beliefs, all roads lead to one God, outcomes based education, etc are all relativistic junk that has clogged the thoroughfares of our moral capacities. Now we are incapable of juding right from wrong and just from injust. We have wondered so far from our moral groundings in the Judeo-Christian West that one has to wonder how long it will be until even America is the moral waste land that Europe now is. According to the WT article fully 26% of American youths are a”non-religous”, this more than anything else should shake us to the core, for when a country loses its moral compass then it is not long before its utter downfall.
This is not something government can neccesarily fix, but it must be something that each of us take up in correcting the moral decay of our times. Its not a Republican-Democrat issue but it is certainly an issue of our very humanity.
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Mark, I could not agree more. A person’s worldview determines how a person answers the big questions such as who is God, why are we here and what is the value of human life. How a person views the world and answers those big questions determines their view on those other issues such abortion, social security, education etc. It also determines one’s ethical standards such as, what is appropriate in fundraising. Great post Mark.
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I think we need to recognize that 18-25 is generally not the definitive moment in one’s worldview. It’s only natural to look around and question what you’ve been taught your whole live. I know plenty of baby boomer’s who were agnostic at 20 and devout at 50.
I’m betting that most of the Ipod generation will become “reverts” to their faith at some point in your life.
I know we’ve all heard that you never find an atheist on his deathbed, but I think that most people begin questioning before that point.
Eventually most people begin to wonder the purpose of why they are moving clumps of flesh placed on a spinning rock.
The lucky ones realize that it’s something much deeper and profound than being on the winning ticket of the CRNC chair, or any career for that manner.
“All that we call human history–money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery–[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
–C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Peeps need to look up at the stars, chill out, read some Plato or Aristotle or Augustine.
I agree that “all” roads may not lead to God, but all those that seek truth are ultimately on the path toward God.
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It is an issue for both our humanity and our government. Our first and greatest President George Washington, in his farewell address, offered advice and direction to the nation that he helped found. He says:
The very founding of this nation was based on the recognition that the Constitution would work only for a religious and moral people. “Let it simply be asked:” what is going to happen to us if those pillars are gone?
Washington cautions against the naive notion that morality can be maintained without its religious foundations. Washington’s point is especially trenchant today, as we look around us to see the moral relativists who reject absolute standards of right and wrong. It is difficult for liberals to see moral questions clearly because they think man is perfectible and on an automatic path to enlightenment, and the concepts of right and wrong and sin are primitively biblical.
You say moral decay, Mark? You’ve hit the heart of the conservative movement. Our forefathers warned us 200 years ago to uphold morality and religious principle if we want America to survive, and Mark warns us today. Listen to YO DADDY!
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