Posted by
OnceAlwaysaMarine on Saturday, April 05, 2008 1:04:55 PM
It is not at all surprising to find that with the expansion of “political correctness” as our nation’s principal value, and the moral and ethical relativism that is necessary to legitimize it, we have become a nation of individuals divorced from the traditional values which once, by virtue of their unifying nature, allowed us the benefit of shared aims. Moreover, an important by-product of this national cohesion was that it engendered in its citizenry the familial instinct that made us willing, for duty’s sake, to place even our lives on the line in defense of this nation for the common cause of our system of government and a belief in its institutions. Thankfully, there remains today, as is attested to by the dedication of the men and women serving in our nation’s all-volunteer military, a remnant of those whose values have not yet become tainted by the insidious atheistic nature of the socialist “Progressive” agenda, which is increasingly being forced upon us.
Ever since the Vietnam conflict and its questionable politics, which did not seem to justify our reasons for having gone there, there seems to have developed, as a result, a movement by some in our society whose proclivity is to reject the whole idea of America, and American values, as the moral and ethical leader of the world’s governments. Because of the mistaken approach our politicians took with regard to that conflict, in what actually was a Cold War skirmish between the Soviet Union and the United States of America and a rather awkward attempt to abort the further spread of the Soviet Communists’ influence in that part of the world, those of every cynical, hedonistic, and subversive stripe became emboldened by the seeming dent in America’s moral armor.
And so, we have, all too willingly it appears, consigned ourselves and our nation over to an inclusion of the subversive elements in society; after having drugged and sexed ourselves into a state in which we have come to concede that we have no moral authority at all, after all.
As a result of having given credence to the lie of moral relativism and political correctness, which allow for on-demand abortion of innocent lives and which holds that marriage between two men is as morally acceptable as life-sustaining marriage between a man and a woman, we are fast becoming a culture of death. All-too-eager to reject anything that hints at a Judeo-Christian ethic, we have become a society rushing headlong towards our own annihilation.
It is no wonder to me, then, that under the emblem of “political correctness” we have become a nation with no set of cohesive moral values and one so divided into our own little “special-interests” groups that we cannot find it in our collective will to mount any effective defense against an enemy that suffers from no such confusion in the unity of his convictions.
The use of “harsh interrogation practices” such as prolonged standing or “water-boarding”, when employed by those entrusted with protecting us and our children from the Islamic fascist, throat-cutters, who plot daily on how to kill as many of us “infidels” as they can, and who address the “rights” of homosexuals by executing them, causes cries for new Congressional investigations. American liberals and the “politically correct” are quick to condemn our military service. Many of these “moral” Americans are appalled that our government has employed such tactics and lay claim to a sense of moral outrage that Americans should resort to such inhumane tortures. Virtually all of these same Americans are silent or stumble over their tongues in making excuses for the savage Islamic maniacs when they perform, for the entire world to see, their barbaric beheadings and suicide bombings of innocent men, women, and children. The same Americans who advocate for new laws against “hate speech” on the radio stations, line up to see the Hitler caricature president of Iran spew hatred for all things American or Israeli while they are preparing the “red carpet” treatment for him at one of our nation’s most “prestigious” Ivy League universities; applauding as he and his collaborators continue to wage their jihadist war of religious intolerance against the very freedoms they claim to hold so dear.
One thing, however, is certain; this nation is in the throes of a moral and ethical dilemma. We will remain ill-prepared to defend ourselves from the enemy without, until we learn how to purge the demons within. Societal cohesion is rooted in shared moral and ethical values and is the best defense we can ever have. Shared values are what once made this country so steadfast as a beacon of hope and prosperity. We were once proud to be called the United States of America. We as a nation would do well to reattach ourselves to the anchor of our great traditions. The Judeo-Christian ethic, however unpopular in today’s society, is a life-sustaining ethic. I fear that a society that embraces an ethic of “abortion rights”, “homosexual marriages”, “moral relativism”, and "political correctness" is embracing an ethic of societal annihilation.