Did you know that liberals and secularists have values, too? They just differ greatly from our own. Christians believe the moral law comes from God; secularists believe it derives from man’s best efforts through trial and error evolutionary processes. In that sense, “moral values” have become relative.
We all value what we believe is right, but is what we believe true? That’s the question.
Scott Johnson of Power Line writes:
Alone in the world, the United States is founded on the “self-evident truths” that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that government is instituted among men to secure these rights. These rights exist under what the Declaration of Indepence — the first of the founding laws of the United States — refers to as the laws of nature and Nature’s God.The founders of the United States never spoke of “values”; the concept was foreign to their political discourse. The concept of “values” derives from the thought of the German intellectual Max Weber. Weber maintained that the fundamental distinction of social science was that between “facts” and “values.” Regarding “values” — the deeply held beliefs that shaped the lives of citizens — social science could render no judgment.
“Values” are by definition relative. They have no objective status or connection to a commonly shared nature. The supplanting of nature and self-evident truths by “values” is more or less the great project of modern liberalism, whose home is in the Democratic Party. It is but a short distance from the orthodoxy of “values” to the related dogmas of “multiculturalism” and “diversity” that permeate liberal thought. In this sense the Democratic Party is the party of “values.”
Read the whole post.
Update (11/14): Democrats try to draw “mainstream” voters.
This Canadian tells Americans to stay right where they are. We don’t want you!
