The Privatization of Morality and Social Decay

Modern society has separated morality from religion, treating ethics as a private preference rather than a public foundation. This shift reverses the original meaning of the First Amendment, which protected religious freedom so that faith could inform public morality not so morality could be excluded from public life. All law rests on a moral order, and every moral order is rooted in religion. When morality is privatized, law becomes relativistic, leading to constitutional and social decay. A society that denies God’s sovereignty inevitably replaces it with state power, aesthetic judgment, or managerial control. True freedom and social order cannot survive apart from Biblical faith, because law, morality, and religion are inseparable.