America's Declining Values: When America left God .
Updated May 21, 2010 America's Declining Values By Rev. Bill Shuler - FOXNews.com American claim to believe in God while ignoring His precepts. Now our country finds itself in moral decline. Values in America are on the decline according to a recent survey conducted by the Culture and Media Institute (CMI). Of the 2,000 Americans who took part, 74% felt that moral values are weaker than 20 years ago. In the words of the director of CMI, the study is, for better or worse, a “snapshot of America.” The report reveals an America that, “no longer enjoys cultural consensus on God, religion and what constitutes right and wrong.” The result is a moral subjectivity that is unparalleled in the history of our nation. Yesterday’s standards have been lost to today’s relativism. With 87% of Americans claiming to believe in God, one would assume that there would be a nationwide consensus about our values as a nation but a deeper look at the results exposes some revealing insights. Not everyone who claims to believe in God (87%) believes that the Bible is the authoritative word of God (only 52% hold to such a belief) and even fewer (36%) believe people should live by principles as set forth in the Bible. Since the founding of America, the Bible has been the key standard of measurement for moral absolutes in this nation. As of late, a trend has emerged whereby individuals create a self-made standard of morality and the result is unequivocal…we are slipping. Various factors are noted in the study that shed light on why we find ourselves in this precarious position. The primary influencer in our society is the family yet latchkey kids are growing up without the benefit of nurturing parents. The media that is the second biggest influence on our families often promotes an agenda that is contrary to the values of mainstream America. Those who have increased exposure to TV show a decreased level of personal responsibility and increased levels of moral relativism. As America claims to believe in God, while ignoring His precepts, it finds itself in moral decline. The need of the hour is to return to God and embrace the teachings of the Bible. It is not too late to recognize that a change of course is not only possible, it is imperative. Rev. Bill Shuler is pastor of Capital Life Church in Arlington, Virginia. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: When America left God AFTER US PRESIDENT REAGAN Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:43:18 -0700 What's Worse: Blumenthal's Lie or the Multiple Lies of the Regime? One guy's Vietnam lie versus dozens of lies on policy? CALLER: Yes. Rush, I was just looking in the Boston Globe and it said Blumenthal was deferred service five times in there, so maybe he was planning on going but he deferred himself from going. RUSH: Well, maybe there are some other misplaced deferments that we don't know about yet. Maybe there are more than five deferments. Look, can you say slime? Can you say oily? I mean just how else to describe this circumstance? RUSH: Very interesting little tidbit of news here by Richard Blumenthal. He was the editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. Now, if you have a position like that, if you are editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, which would be a journalistic media publication, you have a position like that, folks, there's no way that you're going to tell lies or misrepresent your past, right? If you're a journalist? No way. No, I'm being facetious. Of course. He had training for this at Yale. That's what I'm saying. US DEMOCRATE SENATOR FROM NY BEHAVED LIKE A VOYOU. “It’s immoral, unethical, and not right, it is generational theft,” Palin said of the decisions of the Obama administration and Congress. By ANNE SCHROEDER MULLINS | 12/16/09 3:52 AM EST Close Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) hurries to catch a flight after voting on Capitol Hill. | Photo by APClose Sen. Chuck Schumer loves the sound of his own voice, but it carried a bit farther than he might have liked on the US Airways shuttle from New York to Washington on Sunday. According to a House Republican aide who happened to be seated nearby, the notoriously chatty New York Democrat referred to a flight attendant as a “bitch” after she ordered him to turn off his phone before takeoff. May 11, 2010 IN CAMBODIA OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM: Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. 10 UN RESOLUTIONS,(1979-1988) VOTED BY 116 UN MEMBER COUNTRIES ,CALL VIETNAM TO CEASE HER OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA & REMOVE ALL HER TROOPS FROM THE COUNTRY, ARE NOT RESPECTED AS OF TODAY. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York,September 26, 1988. "Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops ...." 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