DID RELIGION MAKE THE GREATEST GENERATION GREAT?
Some time back, I referred to talk about the Greatest Generation as being mostly nonsense. There was nothing great about us. We just had a job to do, we went out and did it and most of us came home and went back to work. Of and on I would think about this. Maybe I was missing something. Several days ago, while laying in bed one morning, my brain was illuminated by the following memory: As kids, with few exceptions, everyone attended Sunday School until we graduated from high school. I pondered this for several days. Where did this fit in to make us the Greatest?
. I receive a lot of e-mails with videos attached. I watch very few. I don't wish to gamble five or ten minutes watching something that I might consider a waste of my time. Today, I received an e-mail and something told me to watch it. Was it my sheltering angel? In ninety seconds I found the answer to why Sunday School was what made the Greatest Generation great: In the video, the presenter has asked a Chinese economist who was coming to the end of a Fullbright Fellowship, if he had learned anything unexpected or surprising. His answer was: "Yes, religion is critical to the functioning of democracy because democracy was not designed for the government to oversee what everyone does but democracy works because most people most of the time voluntarily choose to obey the laws. In the past, most Americans attended church or synagogue every week where they learned to follow the rules because they believed they were not only accountable to Society but accountable to God. In the absence of religion, where are the institutions that are going to teach the next generation that they need to voluntarily choose to obey the laws too, because if you take away religion, you can't hire enough police."
The World's Dooms Day is not just below the eastern horizon. America's is!
(copyright 2014-Andrew M. Dolan)
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