"Whatever is morally wrong, is not politically correct."
~Abraham Lincoln~
What do LGBT, Abortion, Infanticide, Eugenics, Suicide, Racism and Immigration all have in common? They all include manifestations of Legality and Morality. They all have an ethical component. For some, ethics refer to rules provided by an external source, and result in codes of conduct in workplaces or principles in religions. Morals refer to an individual's own principles regarding right and wrong. Laws often reflect a society's combination of both.
Notice also that each of these social-ethical-legal-moral issues also contain a Theological principle. And this is the underlying problem that is fracturing our society and changing our culture. It is not as easy as a binary decision regarding Theism or Atheism. There is a world of difference in those two world views. But to complicate the issue, inside of theism lies options of Islamic monotheism, New Age Pantheism and Mormon Polytheism.
All of these "isms" result in ethical and moral consequences because as Richard Weaver wrote; Ideas Have Consequences.
But what happens in a pluralistic world that seeks the progressive ideas devoid of theological truth? It is as G.K. Chesterton said;
"Under the smooth legal surface of our society we are already seeing some very lawless things. We are almost near the breaking point when we care for what is only legal and not for what is moral. Unless we have a moral principle about such delicate matters as marriage and murder the whole world will become a welter of exceptions with no rules. There will be so many hard cases that everything will go soft."
Soft & Squishy indeed!
The radical social agenda and ethical issues of the day are deliberated apart from the biblical foundation that this country was framed upon by the founders. Today's organizers are seeking to rebuild a society deliberately without a religious foundation. The result of such an adventure is that truth in any absolute sense has been abolished. We dare not forget a classic Orwellian truth; The further a country drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
Cut flowers are very beautiful, for a time. But they begin to wither and wilt and eventually die having been severed from the life giving and sustaining nutrients of the ground.
Serving Him with you
Until He comes for us,
Fred