The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values.
Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do.
No member of any society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.
I don't know why my son was born conservative.
Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.
Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim, and hearts gotta bleed.
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.
