rightwinger
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Rightwinger.. You're welcome to spend the day chasing data as you please, but I don't choose to do so. This is an OPINION piece and one that I happen to agree with. Unlike you, I don't need a stack of data to validate my opinion to myself.
So what is your baseline. To say that something is in decline, you really ought to baseline it against something. Do you really believe that we were a more moral people at other points of our history. I'd be interested to hear that argument articulated.
Within the context of their times, yes. People were more thoughtful of why they believed what they did. They took care to pass that on, both through example and actual teaching to their children. Part of the fact was that most work was done as a family, at home. No doubt it's more difficult today to spend time in actual thought of what, if anything we are passing on.
Today too, many think it's 'wrong' to indoctrinate children into any belief system. It's sort of a 'be nice' philosophy and has wrought many problems at home, school, and workplaces.
If you want to discuss moral values of the past, lets look at the golden age of the 50s. Children were taught that blacks are inferior, gays are evil, people of other cultures were not to be trusted, Jews are devious, women are second class citizens
But people went to church ....so that made them more moral