Dennis Prager, a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist, would ask younger people if they would save their dog or a stranger first if both were drowning. The majority always voted against the stranger — because, they explained, they loved their dog and they didn’t love the stranger.

Hmmm….

How would you answer that question?

Who would you save first?

I want to highlight a paragraph from an article by Dennis Prager from the National Review Online, ‘Why Young Americans Can’t Think Morally’

With the death of Judeo-Christian God-based standards, people have simply substituted feelings for those standards. Millions of American young people have been raised by parents and schools with “How do you feel about it?” as the only guide to what they ought to do. The heart has replaced God and the Bible as a moral guide. And now, as Brooks [op-ed columnist of the New York Times] points out, we see the results. A vast number of American young people do not even ask whether an action is right or wrong. The question would strike them as foreign. Why? Because the question suggests that there is a right and wrong outside of themselves. And just as there is no God higher than them, there is no morality higher than them, either.

What is happening here?

I was listening to the song by Casting Crowns ‘While You Were Sleeping’, which is one of my favs. Overall this is a powerful song, but wanted to dial into a specific verse in its lyrics that goes like this, “As we’re sung to sleep by philosophies / That save the trees and kill the children”

Ouch!!

Look folks, Jesus did not die on the cross for our pets, or to save the trees or [fill in the blank]! He came to save you, me…people! Why? Because in God’s eyes we have immeasurable worth!

Our kids have been dropped into an atmosphere of extreme moral individualism, of relativism and nonjudgmentalism. Today’s post modernistic culture appears to be void of any moral compass. Today, most simply follow their feelings.

Without God and Judeo-Christian religions, what else is there?

So what is it for you, moral standards or feelings?