THE FOUR CARDINAL ERRORS THAT ALMOST DESTROYED AMERICA
PART 3

By Professor Steven Yates
October 17, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

Cardinal Error Three. This error in a nutshell:

Americans—intelligentsia first, consciously, but eventually our so-called leaders and much of the public tacitly—abandoned the inherent religiosity of the Founders and embraced a naturalistic materialism also imported from Europe. This has had serious consequences for our basic moral convictions, which became more hedonistic and utilitarian with every decade. Hedonism sees pleasure as the fundamental good. Utilitarianism holds that an amorphous “greater goodâ€