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Christians who say morality in the US is on the decline?
when the the golden age of 'morality?' When African-Americans were 'separate but equal' and lynchings were common? When poor people and non-white people could be hauled off and sterilized? When slavery was legal? When crime was far more rampant than today in the late 1800s and 1930s? When corporations had no responsibility to address workers' safety, nor obligation to compensate families when workers died because of owners' negligence? When men were free to commit any act of domestic violence, and the wife was blamed if she spoke up? When rape was seen as the woman's fault? When it was okay to use racial slurs? When it was okay to pay people less based solely on the tone of their skin?
Or does the illusionary 'golden age' so many of you refer to only exist on Little House on the Prairie and Leave it to Beaver?
we are constantly told that the current day is so much worse than two or three generations ago. I'm wondering when these better days were.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
America has never had a "golden age" its the damn biased education system in this country pumping out this crap. American history sugar coats a lot of evil stuff that happened in this country's past, and by the time you find out later in life of the real story its too late. Its like someone said, if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is.
- 1 decade ago
I think those people who think that morality is on the decline miss those good old days of slavery, child abuse, debtors' prisons, and witch burnings.
I was reading in Scientific American today how the percentage of people worldwide who die from violence has been in steady decline for the last 10,000 years. It seems that as a species we are becoming less violent, perhaps through the action of natural selection.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Goes with vall their calims that America is a totally christian nation!!
Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime!!
The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!!
Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!!
Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!!
So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it?!!!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Discrimination is moral to people that derive morality from a group of ancient texts
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
no-
it was when god commanded them to burn people who were not christian at the stake, or was it when god commanded them to slaughter every man woman and child and then rape the women of people who lived near but didn't want to reside in the holy land-
oh wait they were supposed to kill the husbands of the women they raped too.
i think that was the "golden age" of morality that they refer to.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Morality has been on the decline since sin entered the world. There has NEVER been a golden age of morality unless your talking about the Garden of Eden before sin.