Later, on another edition of the O’Reilly Factor, Bill interviewed a mom and a daughter about the behavior of college students during spring break.  The segment featured film footage of college students engaging in dangerous drinking games and open displays of sexual behavior.  After talking about how these acts had progressed downward over the years, O’Reilly asked the mom what she would do if she discovered that her daughter was taking part in the kind of things she was seeing displayed on the screen.  The mom said she would certainly get on a plane or in the car and have a face to face encounter with her daughter letting her know how displeased she was in her actions.  O’Reilly then posed the million dollar question to the mother.  Why would you be upset with your daughter?  The mother seemed stunned at the question.  She stammered out an answer saying it was hurting her daughter’s self-esteem.  O’Reilly was not satisfied and asked why she thought it would hurt her daughter’s self-esteem.   The mother couldn’t bring herself to condemn the actions as immoral.  The best she could do was to say that as a mother she would pass judgment on the actions.  Excuse me….you have to be a mother to know that drunkenness and lesbian behavior deserves a judgment call?  When a mother sees open displays of immoral behavior and can’t find it in her heart to call it what it is, we are well on our way to seeing the death of morality.    

            God has certainly not left us in the dark concerning the days in which we live.  Paul told Timothy “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boaster, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God…”(2 Tim. 3:1-4 NASV emphasis mine).

            Our culture can’t survive without a shared understanding of the difference between right and wrong and the will to stand for what is right.