Kansas City Faith Scribe Considers Alleged American Moral Decline

Quick TKC contention with the thesis . . .

A brief check of social media will reveal many American absolutely OBSESSED with visions and arguments regarding morality . . . So maybe the decline isn't as bad as we fear. 

Either way . . .

Conservatives might find themselves in agreement with this part of a recent missive by longtime KC newsman Bill Tammeus . . .  

"Nearly one-third of American adults now identify as religiously unaffiliated.

"I’m certainly not arguing that one can’t act morally or ethically without attachment to institutional religion. But I am suggesting that one of the benefits of structured and healthy religion is that it inevitably keeps moral questions in front of citizens. It prods them toward empathy, a quality that is, oddly enough, under attack these days in our American culture. And it moves them to think of legislation and government budgets as moral documents."

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