“If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values and norms not shared by society. In short, it will either recover the Christian doctrine of nonconformity or cease to have any authentic Christian voice.” IfsDoneChristianValuesVoiceChurchSimpleCeaseDoctrineNormPaganSimple LivingNonconformityChristian Doctrine Author:Doris Janzen Longacre
“Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity. One must respect every minority’s right to be different, but the rights of the majority must not be put into question.” PeopleWorldHumansHas BeensDifferentValuesLosesMoralChristianityDignityMajorityCoreMinoritiesNormOther WorldsHuman DignityWorld Religions Author:Vladimir Putin
“There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction, while at the same time the norms of marriage control the potentially disruptive forces of sexuality. Second, the family provides physical and economic support for the child during the early years of dependence. The child receives its primary socialization in the family, learning the essential ideas and values required for adult life.” YearsFirstsMeanChildrenIdeasCertainValuesForceSupportEconomicEssentialsAdultsFunctionSexualityPrimariesDependenceNormReproductionOrderlyDisruptiveSocialization Author:Adrian Wilson
“There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.” FirstsValuesCultureParentTeacherTraditionProfoundRecognitionRootedFormalNormSchooling Book:Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools
“Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture.” WorldWayMeanRealValuesCultureLove IsLoversEthicsStructurePrivilegeDisappearReal LoveNormBeing In LoveMean Love Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.” TodayValuesCultureBlackWhiteFantasyJourneyComplexesDrivenFavorsIdeologyCommunismConsumersComplexityParadoxResolutionExpensesSensationsDistractionFascismBlack And WhiteReplacedNormFundamentalistRigorOne SidedConsumer CultureEscalating Author:James Hollis