Competing Values

Judeo-Christian Values

  1. There is One God. He has revealed himself in the Bible and in creation.
    • He is the reference point for everything. He is the Truth. Our lives need to revolve around him and his will.
    • The spiritual dimension of our cosmos is of much greater import than the material world.
  2. Mankind was created in the image of God. Our dignity, our rights and responsibilities come from God.
  3. God has created order in this world. The blurring of these distinctions creates the chaos that destroys.
    • God and mankind
    • God and creation
    • Man and woman
    • Mankind and animal
    • Good and evil
    • Truth and lies
  4. Each human being is born with original sin, a tendency away from God and the good.
  5. Objective moral truth is essential for right living. Our natural inclinations (“i.e. follow your heart”) are prone to lead us astray.
    • There is objective moral truth just like there are objective mathematical and scientific truths.
    • The Ten Commandments are the revealed objective moral truths – the guard rails to keep us living wholesomely.
  6. Humans have free will. God will call all to account on Judgement Day. Environment and heredity do not negate free will.
  7. In all relationships, choosing the love ethic, not a revenge response, nor fear-control, nor the greed impulse (“I want your stuff”.)
    • Love your neighbour, love your enemy, bless those who curse you.
    • Trust God to transform our own hearts … or the enemy, the situation, the relationship.

Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”

Modified Scientific Materialism’s (Woke) Values

  1. Man is the highest evolved being in the cosmos. Progressive Activism is the pathway to the better world we long for. God, if one has such a belief, is a creation of one’s own imagination.
  2. There is no spiritual dimension. The material world is all there is.
  3. Mankind is born morally neutral. Environment and heredity shape all our actions. Ultimately no one is responsible for his / her actions.
    • Education: Indoctrination and censorship of misinformation (defined by the state} essential for collective progress.
  4. Individually truth is a matter of each one’s perspective. To “follow our hearts” is our best path forward.
    • Our individual truth needs to remain within the parameters of the state prescribed narratives.
    • From the state’s perspective power equals truth: the accepted / repeated / enforced social narratives.
  5. Our sexuality and our family relationships are subject to everyone’s own preferences. Tolerance is the absolute virtue.
  6. A human being has no more inherent value than any other life form.
    • Abortion and euthanasia are acceptable and necessary actions for that better life, that better world.
    • There is no inherent meaning to our lives. We are “evolutionary accidents”. We need to create our own meaning as best we are able. Death is the end.
  7. White culture, patriarchal culture, national identities are inherently racist and must be challenged wherever they remain.

Marxism on steroids, all inequalities must be eliminated, from economic to sexual preferences to race to national boundaries to “you name it”.