morality

One of the most helpful frameworks I know of in wrestling with moral issues comes from T.S. Eliot. Before we can know what to do with something, we must know what that something is for.

It was revealed this week that one of Joe Biden’s selections for his own coronavirus advisory board is a doctor who has argued that there is little value in the lives of those who live past 75 years of age.

In addition to national, state and local leadership, voters also made decisions on over 100 ballot initiatives.

Individualism has replaced cooperation in our culture. Darwin convinced us that humans are not made in God’s image but are just one branch of the primates. Freud explained religion as the voice of conscience when we feel remorse for acting out our base instincts. Evolutionary psychologists define a human as just a gene’s way of making another gene, here by sheer accident.

In short, we are merely individuals locked in competition with other individuals.

It is incumbent upon Christians to follow the example of Justice Ginsburg by investing in the coming generations. In our case, the stakes are even higher, since Christianity is always one generation from extinction.

A study released this week by the Pew Research Center surveyed 38,426 people in 34 countries last year. Overall, only 45 percent agreed that “belief in God is necessary in order to be moral and have good values.”

According to new Pew Research Center findings, citizens of wealthy countries are the least likely to say belief in God is necessary to have good morals and values.

According to a new poll, more than half of Americans believe that moral truth is individually decided.

We should never remove a fence until we know why it was put up in the first place.

There’s no doubt we live in a culture that’s quite committed to clearing away all kinds of moral fences in all areas of culture, often replacing them with new fences in new places. What used to be unthinkable is now unquestionable. What used to be unquestionable is now thought of as quaint, Puritanical, and in some cases, oppressive and evil. What used to belong to families now belongs to the state. The guilty are now victims; the good guys now the bad guys; the essential now non-essential.

White evangelicals and black Protestants are among the most likely to say it’s important to have a president who “stands up for people with your religious beliefs,” a Pew Research Center survey found.