Culture of Vice

National Review ^ | 1996 | Robert Reilly

[txzman]

Good article bump.

[GrandMoM]

7 years old....guess no one paid attention to it!!!!!!

[RLK]

I'd say this article hits it rather close.

[GrandMoM]

I'd say this article hits it rather close.

....this is the part of it I refered to;As Robert Reilly notes a society can withstand any number of person who try to advance their own moral disorders as public policy. But it cannot survive once it adopts the justifications for whose moral disorders as its own.

[GrandMoM]

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[Judith Anne]

It is an excellent article.

[RLK]

When society buys into the rationalizations, there is lost any basis for objection and society is in freefall.

Furthermore you run into the situation of the Clintons. Part if Bill Clinton's political power is based upon the fact that his election validated the life styles many people were living.

[Coeur de Lion]

I saw a Nazi propaganda film which dealt with the issue of the mentally defective. This was part of the eugenics movement and the premise was that life had no meaning for people who mentally defective and so it was better to euthanized them.

The film starts out in the hallway of a German University in front of a bulletin board. With the exception that the language was German, from the clothing and demeanor of the two students, a young man and woman, you could've mistaken it as a scene from an American University in the 1930s.

The topic of a lecture came up regarding the euthanization of the mentally defective and the man suggested that they attend the lecture. The woman on the otherhand says, "I was taught that euthanasia is always wrong." The man rejoined with "maybe we should be open minded about this and attend anyway." The woman agreed.

The next scene shows the students attending the lecture and I must say I found myself in agreement with the lecturer, he made perfect sense. All his psychological, sociological and economic arguments made perfect sense.

I also knew that the Germans began their program of genocide by initially liquidating the mentally defective and also knew that no matter the reasonableness of the lecturer's argument he was wrong and what he was proposing was equally wrong.

Some respond, when one mentions a "slippery slope", that one's just blowing things out of proportion. This film wasn't just evidence that there is a "slippery slope" but that it's also quite easy and rational to end up on one.

[GrandMoM]

Furthermore you run into the situation of the Clintons. Part if Bill Clinton's political power is based upon the fact that his election validated the life styles many people were living.....as he was himself.

I truely believe the sprilling downfall accelerated during his pathetic administration!!!

[vpintheak]

When a nation and society goes away from God, all things are up for debate. With God there is no debate as to right and wrong, there is no grey areas, there is simply right and wrong period. That is why the world hates us. God is love, he loves us but hates our sin. I can bet I will recieve a bombardment from the "intellectual elite" on this site for my comments. But I don't care. Free your mind and the rest will follow... into a rationalization hell.

[spodefly]

A society can withstand any number of persons who try to advance their own moral disorders as public policy. But it cannot survive once it adopts the justification for those moral disorders as its own. This is what is at stake in the culture war.

If this is true, then we are finished as a culture.

And I believe it is true.

[GrandMoM]

. This film wasn't just evidence that there is a "slippery slope" but that it's also quite easy and rational to end up on one. ....as so many have in our goverments, corperations, churches, schools and even in our own families.

[GrandMoM]

If this is true, then we are finished as a culture. And I believe it is true. ....my/our only hope lies here

...Trust in the Lord with all thine heart;and lean not unto thine own understanding

....In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy path-Proverbs[3:5,6]

[ChocChipCookie]

Worth bookmarking. Thanks for posting this.

[secret garden]

BTTT

[GrandMoM]

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[First Amendment]

Thanks - you know my interests!! I will bookmark it for tomorrow reading.

[philetus]

Wait until the liberals find out, when they win the war, that their expendable.

[GrandMoM]

you know my interests!! ....YEP, Goodnight!