I see little nonsense in this article. He seems to guage the changes in our society fairly accurately. The young are increasingly libertarian in their outlook with significant cohorts who are, either leftist or socially conservative at he edges. It’s the middle that decides elections and that seems to be more and more “live-and-let-live” libertarian.
I find it to be total nonsense. Some kid quoting dubious “polls” to support his contention that social conservatism is dead.
It is a hopelessness..The late Dr. Francis Shaeffer, in Vol. 1 of his Christian View of Philosophy and Culture, states on p. 321..”Weep for our generation! Man, made in the image of God and intended to be in vertical communication with the One who is there and who is not silent, and meant to have communication with his own kind, because of his proud rationalism, making himself autonomous, has come to this place. I would end this chapter with a quotation from “Satyricon” by Fellini. Toward the end of the film a man looks down at his friend who is dying a ridiculous death, an absolutely absurd death. With all his hopes, he has come to a completely absurd end. Modern man, made in the image of God and meant to be in communication with God and then with his kind, has come to this place of horrible silence. In the film Fellini has the voice say, ‘Oh, God, how far he lies from his destination now.’ There was never a truer word!”
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The author doesn’t seem to grasp the simple fact that pot smoking in private is very different, in a moral sense, from gay marriage and abortion.
Sure, there’s been an erosion of moral values in our society, as a result of the calculated plan by the America-hating cultural marxists of the Frankfurt School and the effects of television. But I’m of the opinion that this erosion is actively supported only on the left. The cultural divide remains.
To believe that views on issues like gun control and interracial marriage are related to the same moral principles as those regarding gay marriage and abortion is sort of dumb.
And to turn a comment by Sarah Palin about pot into the “end of the cultural wars” is just another example of a liberal misunderstanding reality.
Whether or not gay marriage is widely supported doesn’t depend on which political group people have decided to join, or which party they think should oppose it. Or even whether morality can be legislated. The reality of the cultural wars is found in the heart of the individual.
Common sense tells us pot smoking and abortion are not the same thing.
No, it’s nonsense.
Let me know when the Democrats succeed in making “Fisting for Fifth Graders” a normal part of government school curriculums outside of Massachusetts.