NYTs Figures Out Young Taught No Morals!

Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts - NYTimes.com:

BO may need to crack down on this columnist, he seems to have come to the dangerous realization that we have created a generation with no morals!! My God, the man is a menace to the entire modern progressive and Statist fabric. He clearly needs to be at least re-educated if not shot!

Read the article, it is enough to make you wonder if the Times site has been hacked by someone with a soul and a working moral compass. What part of the moral relativist canon so expertly recently used by our cipher in chief as in "get off your high horse, a lot of bad stuff has been done in the name of Christianity too!" did this guy miss out on it??? Has he been on a desert island and missed the memo on "thou shalt see all things as moral only as they are decreed by the State and it's moralist with his nose in the air ... BO"?

But no, he has the gall to say:

What would you say if you found out that our public schools were teaching children that it is not true that it’s wrong to kill people for fun or cheat on tests? Would you be surprised?

Well no, I wouldn't be, but I sure as hell am surprised that someone at the NY Times noticed!!

The article recognizes the problem, morals are not per say "facts" that you can run an experiment to "prove".  He even realizes that if one agrees with Protagoras that "man is the measure of all things", then "measuring" morals is going to be "hard" -- and that appears to be as far as his ability to grasp our peril takes him.

We can do better. Our children deserve a consistent intellectual foundation. Facts are things that are true. Opinions are things we believe. Some of our beliefs are true. Others are not. Some of our beliefs are backed by evidence. Others are not. Value claims are like any other claims: either true or false, evidenced or not. The hard work lies not in recognizing that at least some moral claims are true but in carefully thinking through our evidence for which of the many competing moral claims is correct. That’s a hard thing to do. But we can’t sidestep the responsibilities that come with being human just because it’s hard.

Hmm ... well, we MIGHT be able to "better" than just punting and calling anything moral an "opinion", but exactly "which man" might we consult to do our "measuring"? BO? The ballot box under the theory that "lots of people that have no background in morals are likely get a good answer"?

This is NOT a new problem at all! Our founders understood it extremely well:

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other,"  (John Adams)

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to a political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim that tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness," (George Washington)

But what "religion" was that? Guess what! BO notwithstanding, it was NOT Islam -- it had NO PART in our founding and our first contact with Islam was the Barbary Pirates, of which Jefferson said:

“We took the liberty to make some inquiries concerning the Grounds of their pretensions to make war upon a Nation who had done them no Injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our Friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation. THE AMBASSADOR ANSWERED US THAT IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE LAWS OF THEIR PROPHET, THAT IT WAS WRITTEN IN THEIR KORAN, THAT ALL NATIONS WHO SHOULD NOT HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THEIR AUTHORITY WERE SINNERS, THAT IT WAS THEIR RIGHT AND DUTY TO MAKE WAR UPON THEM WHEREVER THEY COULD BE FOUND, AND TO MAKE SLAVES OF ALL THEY COULD TAKE AS PRISONERS, AND THAT EVERY MUSSELMAN (MUSLIM) WHO SHOULD BE SLAIN IN BATTLE WAS SURE TO GO TO PARADISE"

Jefferson's response of course was that America ought to get off her "high horse" and accept their religious beliefs as being as good as our own and just stay out of their way --- er, actually he built six frigates out of live oak and we went over and kicked their "musselman" asses -- but our "leadership" is a lot more "advanced" today!

I'm not going to make this any longer than it is already. This problem has been covered MANY times and the only answer that has ever worked as been RELIGION, of which Christianity is the champion. For an excellent treatise, see CS Lewis, "The Abolition of Man"! 

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