Values

I've just been thinking about how those basic values instilled in me as a child have been abandoned.  The more I think through those values, the more I come to realize that every major problem in America can be tied directly or indirectly to their destruction by the self-proclaimed enlightened Progressives.

The list of values:

Starts with the 10 Commandments.
Don't lie
Don't steal
Don't murder
Don't Envy
Respect your Parents
Love God
Take Sundays off
Don't Curse
Don't have sex outside your own Marriage

Then some more:
Do your best in everything you do
Always seek knowledge, get as well educated as possible
Give a solid day's work for a fair day's wage
Respect others
Tell the Truth
Keep your Promises
Choose your Spouse Wisely and raise children together
Mothers should stay home with young children unless its not possible
Men must protect and provide for their families
Accepting Charity from others is a last resort, then must be paid back as soon as possible
Use your excess to help others who are suffering
Live frugally, don't be ostentatious or show off your wealth
Go to Church
Make Bible Study and deepening your knowledge and understanding of Christianity a lifelong endeavor
Pray with your family daily
Love your children and discipline them because you love them
If you are able, go to College.  If you're not College Material, take up a skilled trade.  If you can't do a trade, take whatever unskilled job you can get and do your best every day.
The world doesn't owe you a living.
You succeed in this world only with your own effort and ability.
If  you work hard and persist, you will succeed.
Stay away from anything that intoxicates or alters your ability to think clearly.

What a contrast to the attitudes of today.  I think these values are timeless and true, but most people under 30 would deride me for holding to them.  Some would apply derogatory labels to me for holding them, such as racist, bigot, homophobe, sexist, right-winger, extremist, intolerant.

The popular values these days are abortion, gay marriage, welfare expansion, and a new class of government administrators who steal from the citizens under the guise of helping the poor.  Pocketing most of the money before handing the rest out to the poor only helps the administrators, while turning the poor into helpless dependents.

Woe to those who call good evil and evil good, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness.  We are living in such an age.