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Koiyotnik · 04-20-2002, 03:48 PM

While doing a term paper on Victorian philosphy, I ran a Google search for Ethics and Morals.

I should have expected it, but I got whalloped with a load of Christian propoganda, one such site being:

<a href="http://www.flash.net/~bob001/WhyEthics.htm" target="_blank">Ethics, Morals and Issues</a>

I really shouldn't have become so upset over it, but here's a few quotes from their website:

Quote:

There are two basic philosophies of ethics.

One adheres to an objective standard of right and wrong. These may be the standards one encounters in the Ten Commandments.

The other views right and wrong as fluid and changing depending on the situation and the desired outcome. This is the philosophy of much of "postmodern" society.
It is vital that you understand these two ethical positions and the consequences that have come about because they affect our way of life. They affect your health and safety, they affect crime, they affect business, they affect government, they affect your future. Our secular schools are not teaching objective moral standards. You will not observe objective moral standards on network TV programs. It is vitally important that our families and our churches pick up the slack and re-establish basic objective moral principles among our people.

Quote:

If your youngster is in a government school, you should keep in close contact with teachers and administrators. Learn how students are taught ethical and moral values at school. You may find you have some "un-teaching" to do at home with your youngster and some "political" activities to do with neighbors and at school.

The important thing is to do something. Today!

"Un-teaching"? You mean, brainwashing?

I briefly glanced at the site and didn't find it all too bad--until I scrolled down the page, that is.

One thing I do commend them on is their representation of Secular Humanism: no outright slander that I can find.

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