Enlightenment: Oh Ye Bringer of the Dark Ages

Times are looking dark for the world. Morality is at an all-time low, respect is nearly buried beneath the dust of time and disuse along with the books in grandfather's library, and dignity is all but extinct.

Go back in recent history, when the 10 Commandments in front of the courthouse was a terrible scandal. Yes, there was the issue of separation of church and state. But more so, was the refusal to "push" any one morality on others. Morality has become quite relative and personal. If you want it, fine; if you choose not to accept it, that's your perogative.

Morality is not relative. There IS absolute truth in the world. A nations refusal to acknowledge that does not change the fact. Yet the fight for morality is a losing battle. This is a society where groups fight to free murderers, and in the same breath denounce moral codes such as the 10 commandments.

Maybe that's the kind of mentality that got society in trouble in the first place. The belief that morality should not be forced, that its only place is in the church.  Society would be an infinitely better place if there was a standard for people to follow. But that would just be politically incorrect!

Once upon a time people carried themselves with dignity; not the dignity that comes with thinking one is "somebody", but rather the dignity that comes with being human. There was a worth placed on life that is often overlooked today.

Abortion and pornography degrade the very essense of life, cheapening things once held sacred, like life and human dignity, to nothing more than the the lowlife fungus about which nobody wants to worry.

Yes, perhaps the world has simply been enlightened. Perhaps everything presented as a problem is just one persons attemt to hold on to the past, a time when moral values were worth something, and life was worth saving.

Then again, consider that enlightenment was the problem in the first place.

The 60's brought the sexual revolution, with free love and drugs for all. Time went on. Entertainment entities began to glorify these as the epitome of happiness. At one time in history, consider the "I Love Lucy" show, men and women would not sleep in the same bed on camera, even if they were married. That was simply taboo. Slowly, small steps at a time, entertainment has come to it's present state, with casual sex glorified and often portrayed quite vividly on camera.

And society wonders why young people have no idea of what is right. Yes. Right. Going back to that absolute moral truth.

But society was enlightened. That, of course, is what's important. Yet, funny thing, for all the light, society seems to have totally lost sight of the difference between right and wrong. It used to be as broad as daylight. But then again, all the en"light"enment must have canceled out other light sources, and left us in the dark.

Yes, the Dark Ages have come upon us once again. Then again, did they ever leave?