Somehow, over the last few years, the word “values” has become preferred over the word “morals”. We hear about the “values voters” who helped reelect George W. Bush. I recently heard a radio preacher talk about a lack of “morals and values” in our youth.<\/p>\n
We are not lacking in values. We are lacking in morals. Morals refer to standards of right and wrong. Values refer to what is considered worthwhile or important. Morals are externally determined (by God). Values are internally determined (by ourselves).<\/p>\n
By changing the language to substitute “values” for “morals”, it becomes impossible to argue for a particular set of standards. It’s perfectly acceptable for me to embrace family values while you value freedom or diversity. Do you think that preacher would have been satisfied if he learned that young people responded to his call for values by buying only organic foods? If we mean morals, let’s say morals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Somehow, over the last few years, the word “values” has become preferred over the word “morals”. I think this is significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}