Moral decline in America has been blamed on the liberal media, goverment, and numerous other sources. This decline is usual in context of christian standards. However goverment has rarely (i'd argue never) controlled morality outside a micro level. I think the confusion is because it is goverments job to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (traditional translated most tangible into property) that the goverment should be stewards of morality. This is parodoxical because liberty and morality clash so frequently. Historically the protecters of christrian morality have been christians, and not the law. The body that taught morality has been the christian community. However, as the community weakend so has morality. Instead of taking responibility the christian community has blamed everything from teletubbies to MTV. When responibility of morality belongs with the stewards of it.
2006-09-06
18:35:26
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