For those who have eyes that discern and ears that understand our culture is traveling down a dangerous road of immorality. It’s not our economy that’s in a downward spiral, but it’s our culture that is in a freefall towards moral of bankruptcy. We have been since the 1960s.

Remember the free love movement? Sex, drugs and Rock and Roll, baby! Love, peace and unity, right? Oh, don’t forget the New Age movement which has now permeated our way of life and thinking. Gurus, who teach the New Age philosophy, are now bestselling authors. What a switch from the 3rd world living standards they came out of. Welcome to America… God forbid if preachers made the amount of money they make. We give them hell for it. I’m not sounding very Zen-like, I know. But it’s no time to empty your mind and be at peace. It’s high time to use it and think. But I digress…

Some of our political leaders who were reveling during the sixties are now in public office; others are now professors in major college universities molding the minds of the next generation. Should we be concerned? Remember when prayer in public school was challenged and defeated. Was that the line of demarcation? And remember when reporters and journalists in the media were after publishing the truth about major issues? Now they are more concerned with shaping public opinion, political affiliations and their own biased opinions. Where are the journalists who pursue truth and declare, “The people have a right to know?”

What happened to us? A lot has changed in just 50 years and the next 5 years will be a dramatic roller coaster ride, I guarantee it. I believe it’s a cultural clash, a conflict for moral laws. Many of our politicians are lawyers, who don’t think in terms of right and wrong, but who have disciplined their minds for what’s legal and illegal, constitutional or unconstitutional. Today, when a politician lies it’s not called a lie, but rather a “misstatement.” It just sounds better than an outright lie. I guess if you want to avoid being called a liar, just say “I misspoke.”

Look at some of the headlines in the news. It’s not about what’s right. But about what is legal. From Governor Blagojevich legal case, Gay marriage, Senate races and the counting of ballots to the economic financial bailouts. The list goes on…

It’s not what’s morally wrong or right that matters, but what’s legal even if it’s wrong. Not everything that’s legal is right. What’s right may not be legal at all and what’s illegal may not be morally wrong at all either.

But how do we determine what’s wrong and what is right or what is moral and immoral? This is difficult to brainstorm for a people who live by the mantra, “If it feels good do it.” There are no absolutes for those who live this way. My homosexual friends often say, “It may be immoral to you, but it is not to me.”

What’s going on in our world? Well, my atheist friends won’t like this but it is undeniably true: The moral law modern civilization was built upon was the Ten Commandments. It gave us a conscious as a nation. It taught us to discern between wrong and right, moral versus immoral. Why am I writing this in past tense? The answer is obvious, because it has been removed from the hearts and minds of today’s society. The moral law is based on the character of God. When we rid ourselves from the basis of God’s moral law, we have no more absolutes. This means, everyone does according to their own heart so long they can find a legal loophole to do it. Hence the freefall towards moral bankruptcy continues.

There’s hope still… we can stop this moral decay trend, IF we as a people make a 180 degrees turnaround back to the foundation for moral laws. We can bring moral sanity back, if we elect people who know the difference. And if we can’t find them, run for office ourselves.