The Blessing or the Curse: Whose Values Will Guide Us? Where Will They Lead Us?
The Blessing or the Curse: Whose Values Will Guide Us? Where Will They Lead Us?
Piero A. Tozzi, 47 J. Cath. Legal Stud. 167 (2008)
We live in an age where laws and legal culture have taken a decidedly post-Christian turn and, indeed, have become hostile to values rooted in a once-shared Judeo-Christian heritage.
They are the values of a secular “New Orthodoxy”–which include what Lee Harris calls those of a “carpe diem” society, or one that idolizes radical individualism and sexual autonomy–that are now ascendant. This “New Orthodoxy” would banish religious discourse, and the values informed by such discourse, from the everyday life of the polis.