ABSTRACT
It’s often said that, as religious tradition has withered, so the bonds that once held us together as communities have fallen away. We Westerners have become atomized: free-floating, isolated individuals adrift within a moral vacuum, now focused on little more than satisfying our own immediate desires, with no external compass by which to tell right from wrong. As a result, the social fabric is crumbling and immorality and crime are spiralling out of control. If we are to rebuild, we will need religious tradition as our foundation. But doesn’t this, in turn, require that we reject the Liberal approach to moral education and return to traditional religiousAuthority-based methods instead?
