A recent article published by AT ended with the following ominous sentences: “If the USA is unlikely to become once again an overwhelmingly Christian nation (and this seems to be the case), where will we turn for a new morality? Is it possible that we are now entering a century or so of moral anarchy?”
“Moral anarchy”? Is this an accurate term, or is it an understatement of the moral decline we are living through? Are terms like “moral degeneracy” and “moral collapse” better expressions of what we are facing?
Every perversion known to mankind is being embraced and gradually legalized. The idea that morality is created by each individual as he makes decisions throughout each day is a step beyond anarchy.
Since Lawrence v. Texas decriminalized homosexuality, we have been in a state of moral anarchy. Crude and licentious parades with many naked or almost naked men celebrating sodomy are considered by many to be positive and invigorating.
The abrogation of Roe v. Wade in the recent Dobbs decision does not end abortion, but simply leaves the existence of abortion laws up to each separate state. There are so many different laws now on when it is legitimate to abort a baby. Thus, the people have decided that it is legitimate for citizens to decide when a life is a life. The truth is that a life begins and is a life at conception. That is what the Holy Bible teaches and has been the basis of the sanctity of life — announced even in our Declaration of Independence — for thousands of years.
Additionally, the inefficacy of jailing people for many crimes based on the claim that those crimes are not really serious crimes or, as crimes, can be prevented by patience or therapy is now accepted by many prosecutors, including Chesa Boudin, who was removed from his D.A. position in San Francisco (even the San Fran lefties were turned off by his policies), and by Alvin Bragg and other prosecutors in New York City’s five boroughs. Kim Foxx in Chicago and Larry Krasner, D.A. in Philadelphia, are also notorious catch-and-release D.A.s. They claim that they do not want to waste precious financial resources by jailing people. In NYC, in addition to this policy resulting in an uptick in thefts and assaults, we are back to rampant turnstile-jumping in the subways instead of paying fares. Also, aggressive panhandling has become more common, and looting and pilfering have become epidemic.
As further evidence of our moral decline, divorce rates are sky-high, and marriage rates and childbearing are at an all-time low. Academic standards have plummeted, and standards in every area of life have been lowered. SAT reading scores were in the