Posted on 09/23/2011 3:34:51 PM PDT by marcbold
A sociologist from the University of Notre Dame published a study gauging the moral thinking of 18-23 year olds. The results are depressing and for this father of five, they’re scary.
David Brooks of the New York Times summarized the study, saying that moral thinking to a large extent was considered a relative matter or not considered at all, even regarding issues such as cheating on a partner or drunken driving. Brooks writes that “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.”
Two-thirds?! That’s a cultural disaster.
Disturbingly, many said that morality is a “matter of individual taste.” The perceived absence of an objective morality is, I believe, devastating for our culture. Without a common morality how can a discussion about morality actually occur? Through the imposition of secularism, we’ve created a Babel of morality. A whole generation has come to believe not in truth, but truth with pronouns with “my truth” and “your truth” holding equal weight. And the only sin worthy of castigation in secular America is to impose “your truth” on “my truth.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
I was with my 80 Year old FIL and he asked me why Open Gays in the military is so wrong....it’s Natural to be gay he said!!! Talk about “whatever”!!!
This is exactly the idiocy the leftists want.
I would say you could extend the ‘lack of moral thinking’ to people well beyond the age of 23.
When anything goes, everything’s gone.
Rhetorical question, eh? In the liberal P.C. world, that seems to be the point.
Wonderful—sociologists preaching morality at ND. What do the priests preach—statistics?
That's your opinion.
It is unfortunate the referred to article does not include a link to the University of Notre Dame study which detailed these results.
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