Luke Capps’s Reviews > Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline > Status Update

“A culture obsessed with technology will…value personal convenience above almost all else…Among those consequences…is impatience with anything that interferes with personal convenience. Religion, morality, and law do that, which accounts for the tendency of modern religion to eschew proscriptions and commandments and turn to counseling and therapeutic sermons; of morality to be relativized…” (p. 9)