Theology

Jamal Johnson

Theology 3

Mrs. Tucker

February 28, 2011

Chapter 1 HW 2

1. Kreeft states that the enemy we are at war with is “dehumanization: the spectacular and unmistakable social, cultural, and above all moral decline and decay that our society has been suffering for decades.”

2. The five most bothersome problems in high schools, just a generation ago, were disrespect for property, laziness, talking and not paying attention in class, throwing spitballs, and leaving doors and windows open. Now, a generation later, the most bothersome problems in high schools are fear of violent death, rape, drugs, abortion, and getting pregnant.

3. One difference in the morality between ordinary people and the media is that “while about half of all Americans attend religious services regularly, only 9 percent of media people do.” The Americans in this example would be considered as the “ordinary people.”

4. What Kreeft says is being ignored in our education and degraded in our entertainment “are the moral values that every civilized society in history has believed in: things like self-discipline, character, loyalty, family, civility, courtesy, gentlemanliness, womanliness, and the very idea of objective truth and objective values.”

5. The 8 battlefields that Kreeft says are in the Culture Wars are as follows: The Family, Education, The Media, Personal and Economic Freedom and Self Determination, Drugs and Violence, Abortion, The Sexuality of Children, and Moral Principals and Society.

6/7. The ten statements about morality that Kreeft says is universal are as follows: Morality necessary for society to survive, Morality is not sectarian or partisan, Morality is natural, Morality is liberating and not repressive, Morality takes effort, Morality gives meaning and purpose and direction to life, Morality gives human beings dignity, Morality is reasonable, Morality is not simply about “freedoms” and “rights” but about duties and responsibilities, and Morality is not...