It's Tuesday, January 9, 2024.

I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

As we're looking at revolutions, you look at some in the global scene, many of those are military,

but as you're thinking about other revolutions, you understand that cultural and moral revolutions are, if anything, just as powerful as military revolutions.

And in the United States and throughout much of Europe. You have moral revolutions, cultural

revolutions that have been taking place, especially since the end of the

20th century that have utterly reshaped human society. You have the reference to the cultural revolutions of the

1960s, but in retrospect, the revolutions in the culture paled over against the

revolutions in morality. Because as you're looking at civilization, you recognize that even as God made us in his image as moral beings, we crave a moral structure and we will create a moral structure, one structure or another.

In these days we have rival moral structures between conservatives and progressives in one society. The progressives by the way of course are winning.

But you do have a moral structure everywhere you look.

Even the people who say that they want no moral structure they're actually lying

perhaps even to themselves they just want a moral structure of their liking a

moral structure that's youthful part of that revolution, but you actually have to understand there were a lot of

adults in the room at the very same time, who have been pressing for this kind of vast moral

change. They were awaiting their opportunity. The end of the Second World War brought in one sense that opportunity because everyone

knew there was a reconstitution of society that was going to have to take place in many nations. Another aspect of what took place was simply the advent of new

technologies, most importantly the pill and the separation of human conjugal relations from human reproduction was one of the

central goals of the sexual revolutionaries and as a matter of fact they couldn't

have their revolution until the advent of the pill and birth control. But as you were looking

at this you also come to understand that all these things come together in a way that confused

many people who weren't ready to join a complete revolution in morality.

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