Yet along with this self - interested fringe of values vendors there exists a solid center of
genuinely concerned Americans who have seen the bottom fall out of the
public moral conscience in little more than a generation.
What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in
public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor
moral tyrant, but
genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.
Much of the rest in my above refered to how the
public commonly seem to respond to real risk of death and the
moral role of people who
genuinely believe that people are running an unacceptable risk.