Moral Poverty

"Formerly the restraints of discipline were imposed from without. The child faced discipline by parents, discipline by teachers at school, and to a very considerable extent by law….the police officer was a foot soldier. He patrolled a beat, and he knew just about everyone who lived on that beat…"   A young man going through hard times fell into criminal activity to meet his needs. Now in prison he said to the counselor, " …I wish that when I had been given an education, someone had put a little more emphasis on teaching me the difference between right and wrong….."

it is time we ceased to regard juvenile delinquency as a isolated phenomenon…it is a by product of our national way if life. …These are selections from a article written in 1957 regarding the growing moral poverty in America. 

 

We are a liberated culture. The only thing that matters is do your own thing. But something needs to  be said about our responsibility for doing our own thing impacting others in a harmful way. Individual freedom without a sense of social conscience is dangerous. Our best chance to make a better world is to be a better person. One whose person and life is spent doing good and encouraging others in the way of Christ.