In the beginning God created.... Genesis 1:1
"Attorney General William Barr, in a recent speech on religious liberty, affirmed the centrality of creation for cultural survival.
A key feature of Barr’s speech is the way he draws the line between the contrasting worldviews – creation or accident – and the resulting consequences for society.
In that regard, creation can be seen as a pivotal doctrine on which society is balanced. Rejection of creation, and of the religious education that usually follows from it, leads to a tipping point with many dire consequences. This time, he warns, secular society is doing its utmost to put artificial bandages on the cancer.
CEH
"Attorney General William Barr, in a recent speech on religious liberty, affirmed the centrality of creation for cultural survival.
A key feature of Barr’s speech is the way he draws the line between the contrasting worldviews – creation or accident – and the resulting consequences for society.
In that regard, creation can be seen as a pivotal doctrine on which society is balanced. Rejection of creation, and of the religious education that usually follows from it, leads to a tipping point with many dire consequences. This time, he warns, secular society is doing its utmost to put artificial bandages on the cancer.
Are we created or are we purely material accidents?
There is another modern phenomenon that suppresses society’s self-corrective mechanisms – that makes it harder for society to restore itself.He follows with specific recent examples of how state and federal governments have been doing this. Then he ends with calls for turning education back to the values of the founding fathers.
In the past, when societies are threatened by moral chaos, the overall social costs of licentiousness and irresponsible personal conduct becomes so high that society ultimately recoils and reevaluates the path that it is on.
But today – in the face of all the increasing pathologies – instead of addressing the underlying cause, we have the State in the role of alleviator of bad consequences.
Education is not vocational training. It is leading our children to the recognition that there is truth and helping them develop the faculties to discern and love the truth and the discipline to live by it.
We cannot have a moral renaissance unless we succeed in passing to the next generation our faith and values in full vigor.
The times are hostile to this. Public agencies, including public schools, are becoming secularized and increasingly are actively promoting moral relativism."
CEH