The Media/Culture
Could this be true? Is it worse today? I heard this in a scholarly lecture recently…
An American poll by the Worthland Group in Baltimore in the 90’s asked Americans about their moral and religious values and it compared a cross-section of Americans with the media establishment.
Some results:
55% of Americans say they attend religious services regularly
9% of media people do
82% of Americans thought abortion was at least sometimes morally wrong
3% of media people do
5% of Americans believe it is moral to commit adultery
49% of media people do
I wonder what the percentages are at present…
The following more recent quote is from a lecture about 11 years after the above poll was taken:
“I think there are four states you can be in, in relation to your culture. The best state would be, in a good and happy culture, you’re at peace and you deserve it and you enjoy it. The worst state would be you have been defeated and there is no hope. There are two states between those two – going up and going down. Going down from a peaceful, wise, happy, and successful culture into decline and trying to hold the culture together against this decline. That’s a rather unhappy state. That’s a state of fighting defensive wars against the barbarians outside the gates who are coming in.
I think we’re in none of those three positions. I think we are in a fourth position. I think we are now the barbarians outside the gates. I think the culture has declined to a point where, for all practical purposes, our public culture is pagan, is non-Christian.
So, being an adolescent who never grew up, I welcome the opportunity to be the bad guys on the attack, the rebels...
...and we’re going to win. We’re moving up.”
~Peter Kreeft (Kreeft is a Christian apologist/philosopher)
An American poll by the Worthland Group in Baltimore in the 90’s asked Americans about their moral and religious values and it compared a cross-section of Americans with the media establishment.
Some results:
55% of Americans say they attend religious services regularly
9% of media people do
82% of Americans thought abortion was at least sometimes morally wrong
3% of media people do
5% of Americans believe it is moral to commit adultery
49% of media people do
I wonder what the percentages are at present…
The following more recent quote is from a lecture about 11 years after the above poll was taken:
“I think there are four states you can be in, in relation to your culture. The best state would be, in a good and happy culture, you’re at peace and you deserve it and you enjoy it. The worst state would be you have been defeated and there is no hope. There are two states between those two – going up and going down. Going down from a peaceful, wise, happy, and successful culture into decline and trying to hold the culture together against this decline. That’s a rather unhappy state. That’s a state of fighting defensive wars against the barbarians outside the gates who are coming in.
I think we’re in none of those three positions. I think we are in a fourth position. I think we are now the barbarians outside the gates. I think the culture has declined to a point where, for all practical purposes, our public culture is pagan, is non-Christian.
So, being an adolescent who never grew up, I welcome the opportunity to be the bad guys on the attack, the rebels...
...and we’re going to win. We’re moving up.”
~Peter Kreeft (Kreeft is a Christian apologist/philosopher)
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