We Are Not as Woke as We Think Ben Shapiro was right when he wrote, “The product of the woke crusade will not be a less racist America but a more polarized one. That’s because the woke crusade is not truly about reducing racism; it is about attacking fundamental institutions, American history, and our very […]
Category: Social Issues
America Is Not Racist, part 4 – Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory Critical race theory is a theoretical Marxist leaning framework that assumes as a fact that individuals are oppressed or are the oppressor based on their skin color. So progressives use the leftist paradigms of critical race theory to share their ideas about racism. Unfortunately, most college graduates with training in the humanities and social […]
America Is Not Racist, part 3 – Political Correctness and Identity Politics
Political Correctness and Identity Politics It is mostly from the left that come the philosophies of political correctness and identity politics. One result of these philosophies is the belief that there are only two meaningful demographic groups in America today – people of color and white people. “The left provokes a politically concocted racial battle between alleged […]
America Is Not Racist, part 2 – A New Normal
A New Normal I admit I was disappointed when on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. However, I held out hope that maybe this first African-American chief executive of the United States would use his bully pulpit to help heal the racial divide in our nation. In his victory speech, […]
America Is Not Racist, part 1 – Racism Redefined
Racism Redefined My mother was a racist. She would be the first to admit she was; she admitted so to me. But the key word here is “was.” By the time she died, in 2015, she was so far from being a racist, by definition, that no one would ever believe she once was. By the proper definition, a […]
Warning Signs of Cultural Decay – Accepting Profanity as the Norm
In all my research into the signs of moral decay in a culture, I found that relatively little has been written about the effect of profane language on a culture’s moral decline. Yet, I feel the language deemed popular and acceptable by a culture points directly to the virtues accepted by that culture. When foul language is […]
Warning Signs of Cultural Decay – Abandoning God (Continued)
We who are considered baby boomers have seen in our own lifetime the abandonment of religious values in the determination of our cultural values. The second of the Ten Commandments actually expands on the first Commandment by stating that not only should you have no other God placed before the one true God, but that furthermore, […]
Warning Signs of Cultural Decay – Abandoning God
Leading the warning signs of cultural decay is when a people begin to abandon God in their societal traditions. The first of the Ten Commandments tells us ““I am the Lord your God, . . . You shall have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:2-3 NIV). Jesus expanded on this in Matthew when he was asked which […]
Warning Signs of Cultural Decay – Introduction
In Exodus (20:1-17) and in Deuteronomy (5:4-21) we read the Ten Commandments God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai. These were commands given to the nation of Israel to provide an ethical foundation for their lives, and their worship of God. They were given so that Israel could maintain their covenant relationship with God. “The commandments were no […]
Cultural Decay – Who’s To Blame
If we are in cultural decline, which I believe we are, it cannot be solely blamed on current events. Nor can it be blamed on one person, such as the President. The truth is that current events are the result of cultural decline, not its cause. The frantic pace of new technologies has only served to accelerate the […]