The Immoral Majority -

By Maurice A. Smith

What is morality? How many times have we been challenged with the notion of morality? Each day we are faced with decisions that are based upon moral lines.

Have our hearts turned from God so far that it has affected the love for people in general and in turn our communities? Can there be morality without God?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Printed Grace
• Release date: May 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224687480

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to My Love. The main reason I never fold. To my life support...the one who holds my arms up all by herself. If I did anything right in my life...it was when I gave my heart to you.

You have always been there for me, through thick and thin. You have supported me in my dreams and helped me to achieve my goals. You have made me a better person.

I love the way you make me laugh. I love the way you challenge me. I love the way you love me.

This book is a small token of my love and appreciation for you. I hope you enjoy it.

ILYSM and God gets all the glory!

Introduction

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.-Theodore Roosevelt.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.-George Washington.

Morality is primarily a means of preserving the community and saving it from destruction. Next it is a means of maintaining the community on a certain plane and in a certain degree of benevolence.- Friedrich Nietzsche.

Morality?

How many times have we been challenged with the notion of morality? Each day we are faced with decisions that are based upon moral lines. What is it to be moral? Merriam Webster’s definition of moral is of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy states The term morality can be used either descriptively to refer to a code of conduct put forward by a society or, some other group, such as a religion, or accepted by an individual for his/her own behavior or normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons.

The only problem we have in an ontological and philosophical sense is we would need to define what normal and rational would be because everyone's normal is different and everyone also perceives himself or herself to be reasonably rational. Anyone who knows and understands has a sense of what wrong is, but wrong with people can be measured in degrees or levels because most people’s moral base is subjective. Something that we deem wrong can be said to be not as bad as something else is. For example, stealing, a piece of candy is not as bad as stealing money from a bank. The common factor of course is stealing, in which constituted in normal moral behavior it is deemed wrong.  How then do we come up with our morals? For those that do not believe in God they may perceive our moral values are inherent and partly nurtured. Nurture is what is instilled in us by outside influences, whether it be parental, societal or by reason. Nurtured morality comes to us by sensual stimulation or by what we reason to be truth.

And now what is truth? And Truth by one its definitions is a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as true.So, truth in a sense can become subjective in the nonbeliever’s life. Truth can vary as time goes on when we are talking in societal terms and ontologically. For those that believe in Christ Jesus, truth never changes because Christ Himself is truth period!

John14:6 reads that He is the way, the TRUTH and the lifeand the Bible also declares in Hebrews 13:8 that Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, and today, and forever.  Nevertheless, when we deal with morality as it is seen outside of faith in God, we see how it changes as generations change. So then, it is not presumptuous for believers to say that morals are not tangible outside of faith in God but rather perception. What I am saying is that if we do not hold ourselves as humans under one set of moral values, then morality must be based upon what each individual, each family, each religion, or each race perceives to be truth. For believers to be armed with the truth of Jesus Christ we need to represent and re-present the moral composition in which God has interlaced into man from the initial breath God breathed into him.

God did not create moral law. It is reflective of His character! It is who He is! With so many negative factors in today’s societal learning structure it becomes more apparent that the moral values we once held on to so firmly have rapidly dissipated. Within structured religion there are subsets of moral values also given. The problem we face here is that there are so many different religions and hence so many different moral systems. In essence, we could actually hold to different subsets of moral behavior each day.

Most people have not just one set of morals because most people change their sets of morals based upon which group in society they are interacting with at any given time. What does this mean? It means that people hold on to different values whether it is at home, work or church and have not yet established one set of moral values just to live life! Another challenge we face is that what may be immoral to you may not be immoral to me. With the immense popularity of television alone and then adding to that the Internet, moral behavior has regressed tremendously.

Because of the graphic nature of the images we see on television (Remember they would not