by Sherrie Smith

Created on: June 12, 2009   Last Updated: June 15, 2009

Every single person alive brings some type or kind of religious faith to life. Whether your belief system is Christian, Muslim, Jewish, agnostic, or even atheist, it is a specific set of moral values. People who profess non-belief in a God or a Superior Being are deluding themselves. Professed unbelief is not true unbelief, it is exchanging one value system for another!

History tells us America was indeed founded on Christian principles espoused by mostly western Europeans. These Europeans were not all of one denomination, but most of them believed in a highly Biblical system of both government and society. There are millions of pages of historical documents backing up this particular fact.

As America became more diversified over the ensuing decades that Christian base has eroded into many different factions, including those who completely reject the notion that Christianity or religion has any relevance today.

However, the rejection of those principles doesn't free one from a moral or religious basis, it simply changes which base one has chosen to live by or believe. Every person alive has a moral code by which one lives. The murderer on death row has chosen a moral code! It isn't necessarily one that Americans consider normal, but it is indeed a moral code. A chosen life code that rejects the Fifth Commandment that states Thou shall not kill is still a moral belief.

That brings us to the next step in the discussion. Whose moral code should we all live by? One made up by me? One made up by Charles Manson? One made up by Jack the Ripper? One made up by Al Capone? Which one? Moral relativism is alive and well today. Every human alive since Adam and Eve thinks he or she has the answer to the question of whose moral code humans should live by. Personally, I would like to bank my life on a code made up by someone other than a fellow human being who could be anyone of the people mentioned above, or worse. And why do any of us think Jack the Ripper, or Al Capone, or Charles Manson's behavior is bad? Because we have a moral code taught to us by someone else, probably our parents or grandparents. However, the moral behavior of the three previous examples is anti-Biblical. Who set the Biblical moral code? Where did our parents or grandparents learn that code? That's right from the God of Bible.

Society cannot survive without moral precepts. Human beings would break down in total anarchy and chaos within days. Any history book will tout hundreds of

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