I’ve been following Dennis Prager’s excellent series, which he promised as a new year’s resolution to himself. His resolution was to explain Judeo-Christian values better so people could cotton-on to them more easily. Sounded like a noble cause to me, so I’ve been reading them and pointing them out weekly. Highly recommended, easy reading!
Here’s his latest installment—Part Three.
For those who want to catch up, here’s the series so far:
In Part Three, Prager makes the case against the so-called Age of Reason:
Those who do not believe that moral values must come from the Bible or be based upon God’s moral instruction argue that they have a better source for values: human reason.
In fact, the era that began the modern Western assault on Judeo-Christian values is known as the Age of Reason. That age ushered in the modern secular era, a time when the men of “the Enlightenment” hoped they would be liberated from the superstitious shackles of religious faith and rely on reason alone. Reason, without God or the Bible, would guide them into an age of unprecedented moral greatness.
As it happened, the era following the decline of religion in Europe led not to unprecedented moral greatness, but to unprecedented cruelty, superstition, mass murder and genocide. But believers in reason without God remain unfazed. Secularists have ignored the vast amount of evidence showing that evil on a grand scale follows the decline of Judeo-Christian religion.
There are four primary problems with reason divorced from God as a guide to morality. […]
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