By Selwyn Duke

We’ve heard the stories about girls viciously beating
rivals, and recently nine third-graders hatched a plot
to kill their teacher. Yes, childhood
misbehavior, once typified by Dennis the Menace or Leave it to Beaver’s Eddie Haskell, is now
often more sinister in nature. 

This trend reflects our overall moral breakdown, and
while it’s difficult to do this issue justice in one article, there are factors
that bear mention. One is moral
relativism, the characteristic spiritual disease of our time. It tells us there really is no such thing as
right and wrong and infects each succeeding generation more thoroughly than the
last. Thus, many today embrace the
message of an old cartoon I remember; it depicted the Devil addressing a group
of people in Hell and went like this (I’m paraphrasing), “There’s no right or
wrong down here. It’s whatever works for
you.” Undoubtedly, if you can’t use
morality (the Truth) as a yardstick for making decisions because “it doesn’t
really exist,” what’s left to use?

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