My daughter was recently sharing her amazement concerning how the members of her college class on terrorism were unable to come up with a clear definition to describe a terrorist.  Even more surprising to her was how the members of the class refused to call the recent kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Hezbollah an act of terrorism.  This wasn’t all that surprising. 

 

Defining a terrorist requires a moral judgment be made concerning the actions of an individual or a group of people.  In other words there has to be a right and a wrong against which actions can be judged.  The moral absolutes of right and wrong are sadly missing in students today.  In fact, unless they have received the training in morality at home, they will not get it in institutes of higher education.   

 

Various studies put the numbers of liberal left leaning professors ahead of conservative professors at the rate of 5 to 1.  The studies include both left and right leaning universities.  The numbers include sociology departments where the ratio of liberals to conservatives is 44 to 1 as well as economics departments where the numbers are almost 3 to 1.  

 

The numbers are important because liberals believe in issues that demand no moral judgments be made.  Issues such as abortion on demand, homosexual rights, wealth redistribution (socialism), and open borders are just a few of the hot issues for liberals.  Opposition to any of these issues requires a moral judgment to be made concerning right and wrong. 

 

With liberals in charge of academia, what do you suppose our children are being taught?  They certainly are not being taught how to determine if these issues are right or wrong by professors who themselves do not believe in anything but moral relativism.  

 

It doesn’t get any better when kids leave the classroom.  According to the people who put the numbers together, kids spend an average of 1,726 hours a year in front of the idiot box.  Lest you think they learn how to make moral or value judgments from the television, think Nip/Tuck, SouthPark, Will and Grace, or the extremely moral show, Desperate Housewives. 

 

It should come as no shock that young adults, or older ones, can not determine what a terrorist is or determine if groups like Hezbollah are terrorist groups.  Even rape, murder, beheadings, kidnappings, or using human shields, can only be judged in the context of situational ethics, not whether their actions are morally right or wrong. 

 

The real disappointment is that I am sure some of the kids in my daughters class come from conservative families and maybe even religious families where morals are honored and believed to be the basis of truth.  Unfortunately, the baton is not being passed to the next generation as well as it should be.