America is locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country. A battle between the values for which America has always fought-family, faith, freedom, and country-and the gospel of New Age relativism rages in our schools, our courts, and our popular culture.
On one side: secularists armed with the proposition that God is dead. They preach a hedonistic dogma where man is the highest authority and his whim is the only absolute. They claim that God's law has no place in our courtrooms, and his name no place in our classrooms. Their governing axioms reduce faith to superstition and traditional morality to quaint nonsense. No fixed standards of right and wrong, beautiful or debased, healthy or sick. If it feels good, do it.
The mob listened, and today, we reap relativism's poisoned harvest. Filthy art financed by our tax dollars. Television steeped in raw sex and romanticized violence. Movies that mock religious faith. Rock concerts that extol lust and cop-killing. Most of Hollywood has crossed the cultural divide-and left people of faith and principle on the other side.
After generations of feeding our children filth and allowing moral polluters to dump poison into cultural well, why are we surprised that ours has become a stunted and sick society?
The road back is rutted with the efforts of patriots gone before. "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to prosperity," George Washington said, "religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man seek the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness."
If we are to reclaim American morality, we must pour truth into the void carved out by relativism. We must revalue life by promising that our weakest, from the unborn to the elderly, will be protected. We must restore traditional values-patriotism, loyalty, courage, and decency. We must revitalize our popular culture with magazines, movies and TV shows detoxified of raw sex, violence, and filthy language. We must ensure that the schools for which we pay taxes teach the values we hold dear.
The stakes are high: the safety of our children, the state of our society, the soul of our country. But if America is to once again be "one nation under God," this Culture War must be won.
