Thursday, June 4, 2015

Ethics Is Obsolete

Ours is an age where ethics has become obsolete.  It is superceded by science, deleted by philosophy and dismissed as emotive by psychology.  It is drowned in compassion, evaporates into aesthetics and retreats before relativism.  The usual moral distinctions between good and bad are simply drowned in a maudlin emotion in which we feel more sympathy for the murderer than for the murdered, for the adulterer than for the betrayed, and in which we have actually begun to believe that the real guilty party, the one who somehow caused it all, is the victim, and not the perpetrator of the crime.

Robert E. Fitch, "The Obsolescence of Ethics," Christianity and Crisis: A Journal of Opinion, 19, no. 19 (November 16, 1959), 163-65. Cited by Ravi Zacharias in "The Real Face of Atheism," p.65-66

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