text: Thanks for the clarifying  your thinking Bill.    
  
  The CHURCH has long been the source of guilt, it's always been a tool for their authority/power.    Biblicly it went so far as describing foods that can be eaten, location with the synogog that only the 'authority' of the church could see, tithing....   Guilt was combined with human conviction, and put people in jail, in blocks, tortured, and at the bottom of the lake in the name of Christianity.
  
  Yet, you and I agree that our society seems to have lost almost all guidelines for behavior.   It's become 'if it makes you feel good then it must be OK".  Self interest drives selling: Drugs, cars, gadgets, politics ..........
  
  At times it seems we are just giving into human impulses, with little to guide us morally or ethically.   I sincerely believe the love of money is a root of evil, but then that's a Christian experience for Me   1 Timothy 6:10.
  
  I too wonder where our morality/ethical choices come from in modern American society.