NEWSA major founding principle for Google was: “Don’t be evil”. Google management is now confused about what “evil” actually is – and says that the slogan is actually “the stupidest rule ever” according to the CEO. How about companies conveniently “outsourcing their ethics” to Google? Seems it is a reality today.
Interesting. Surprising in an exceedingly morally relativistic age? Hardly.
Listen to the discussion below.
AlbertMohler.com – The Briefing 10-17-13. Listen to full audio here.
21 minute audio extract of 2 hour discussion:
Full audio, listen below or download here for hour 1 and hour 2. Extract audio downloadable here.
Hour 1:
Hour 2:
America teeters on a precipice. In the midst of financial turmoil, political uncertainty, declining morality, the constant threat of natural disasters, and a myriad of other daunting challenges, many wonder what the future holds for this once-great nation. Is America an empire in decline or a nation poised for a historic Renaissance? Will history’s greatest democracy stage a miraculous comeback, returning to the forefront of the world’s economic and spiritual stage? Can America’s religious past be repeated today with a third Great Awakening? Or will the rise of China, Russia, and other nations, coupled with the U.S.’s internal struggles, send her into a decline from which there can be no return? This special will help listeners understand the economic, social, and spiritual challenges facing the United States in the 21st century, through the lens of biblical prophecy.
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When you think “what I do doesn’t hurt anybody else” is true, how sure can you really be? How far are you really capable of ensuring this in the future?
The audio is an extract taken from “Mere Christianity”, probably the most famous book by C.S. Lewis.
Are you sure you can ignore your moral views when voting? Really?
Mentioned in audio: Peter Vidmar steps down as chief of mission for 2012 U.S. Olympic Team due to his views on homosexuality.
Extracts above from Line of Fire Radio. Listen to full audio here.
You may be surprised how gay-friendly & pro-gay much of prime-time media is today.
An extract from the Hays code:
General Principles
1. No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.
2. Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.
3. Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.
Particular Applications
I. Crimes Against the Law
These shall never be presented in such a way as to throw sympathy with the crime as against law and justice or to inspire others with a desire for imitation.
1. Murder
a. The technique of murder must be presented in a way that will not inspire imitation.
b. Brutal killings are not to be presented in detail.
c. Revenge in modern times shall not be justified.
2. Methods of Crime should not be explicitly presented.
a. Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc., should not be detailed in method.
b. Arson must subject to the same safeguards.
c. The use of firearms should be restricted to the essentials.
d. Methods of smuggling should not be presented.
3. Illegal drug traffic must never be presented.
4. The use of liquor in American life, when not required by the plot or for proper characterization, will not be shown.
“Miscegenation” being the one exception in the ‘recommended content’ of this code. …but we all know that the Hollywood of today would never stand by or aim for this code.
Science-based morality? William Lane Craig discusses Sam Harris and his book “The Moral Landscape”, as well as their upcoming debate.
Reasonable Faith Podcast.
