Today there is a crisis in our culture, a
crisis that gets little attention but deserves serious scrutiny: THE LACK OF SHAME
IN AMERICA. As Merriam-Webster puts it,
shame is a “Painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety…you
know you have done something wrong and you have the ability to feel
guilt, regret, or embarrassment.
How did we get here? One answer is the
character development of the baby boomers who were spared from the hardships of
the Great Depression and of World War II – they were pampered and indulged more
than any other generation in U.S. history. The boomers also saw the
disintegration of the family unit in the 1960s through divorce and the exodus
of the modern woman from the home into the workforce. The result was a crack in
the moral foundation of America and the beginning of moral relativism in our
personal and our religious values.
The lack of shame became turbo charged
twenty years ago in 1993 with the inauguration of the first baby boomer as president, namely, our 42nd
president: William Jefferson Clinton…….Read more at
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