I’ve been posting links to Dennis Prager’s columns and getting a lot of good feedback from people. His latest column—part of his New Year’s Resolution series (he made a 2005 commitment to better explain Judeo-Christian values to non-religious people) may be his best yet.
This is Part VI and it’s called “Liberal feeling vs. Judeo-Christian values: Part VI”. There are links there to all the other parts which I strongly suggest people read.
I’m not pushing religion. All this reading is just what good tolerant intelligent people do. Liberals I’m talking to you. That’s how I got to be so much smarter than you. (Now where’s that darn “wink” button….. oh well…)
With the decline of the authority of Judeo-Christian values in the West, many people stopped looking to external sources of moral standards in order to decide what is right and wrong. Instead of being guided by God, the Bible and religion, great numbers—in Western Europe, the great majority—have looked elsewhere for moral and social guidelines.
For many millions in the twentieth century, those guidelines were provided by Marxism, Communism, Fascism or Nazism. For many millions today, those guidelines are … feelings. With the ascendancy of leftist values that has followed the decline of Judeo-Christian religion, personal feelings have supplanted universal standards. In fact, feelings are the major unifying characteristic among contemporary liberal positions.
Aside from reliance on feelings, how else can one explain a person who believes, let alone proudly announces on a bumper sticker, that “War is not the answer”? I know of no comparable conservative bumper sticker that is so demonstrably false and morally ignorant. Almost every great evil has been solved by war—from slavery in America to the Holocaust in Europe. Auschwitz was liberated by soldiers making war, not by pacifists who would have allowed the Nazis to murder every Jew in Europe.
The entire edifice of moral relativism, a foundation of leftist ideology, is built on the notion of feelings deciding right and wrong. One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
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