Today is Monday, May the 1st, 2023. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

George Washington claimed that religion and morality are each indispensable supports of democracy.

John Adams was certain that our Constitution was, quote, made for a moral and religious people

and is wholly inadequate to the government of any other, end quote.

According to 65% of U.S. adults, these founding fathers were wrong.

In a recent Pew Research report, two-thirds of American respondents claim that

it's not necessary to believe in God to be moral. They can make this claim because our

secularized culture has convinced them that morality is personal and subjective. Like the

archer who fires an arrow and then paints the target around the place it lands, we get to choose

what is moral for us and need no help from God in achieving it. However, the mass shooting in Texas,

the deadliest Russian attack on Ukraine in months, the first

U.S. mass evacuation effort from Sudan, and widespread discouragement about the future are

windows into how well our subjective morality is working for us.

And what do we do when your definition of morality and mine directly contradict each other?

When you think abortion on demand is a moral reproductive right,

and I think it is the immoral killing of an unborn child.

When you think marriage has no gender,

and I think it should be reserved for one man and one woman.

The debate is not only foundational

to the future of our democracy, it is especially urgent for the souls of evangelicals like me.

I walked on my treadmill last Friday morning for my usual three miles, sitting my pace at

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