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【Morality】A few years ago, young women blushed if they were embarrassed. Today, they are embarrassed if they blush.

【Morality】In a schoolboy experiment, some young lads put a frog in a container of water and began to heat the water very slowly. The water finally reached the boiling point and yet the frog never even attempted to jump out. Why? Because the changes in the environment were so slight and slow to occur that the frog didn’t notice them until it was too late.

As Christians, we can end up like the frog. There are changes in our moral environment that we don’t even notice have occurred. We can be dying without even noticing it!

【Morality】But one has to have an ethical base for a society. Where the prime force is impulse, there is the death of ethics. America used to have ethical laws based in Jerusalem. Now they are based in Sodom and Gomorrah, and civilizations rooted in Sodom and Gomorrah are destined to collapse.—The Rev. Jesse Jackson

【Purpose of Morality】Morality seems to be concerned with three things. First, with fair play and harmony between individuals. Second, with what might be called tidying up or harmonizing the things inside each individual. Third, with the general purpose of human life as a whole; what man was made for; what course the whole fleet ought to be on; what tune the conductor of the band wants it to play.—C.S. Lewis