Is Canada a Moral Sinkhole?... or, the Making of a Moral Malaise

There have been 2 shocking decisions by Canadian courts recently that, disturbingly, don't seem to actually have many people shocked. I'm sure if I were to say that Canada is in a woeful moral decline there would be those that balk, and yet as I read about Canada taking the final steps into legally endorsing open prostitution and, far worse yet, barely punishing the  open murder of a healthy and fully born baby (to use only two examples), I can come to no other conclusion.

How Did We Get Here?!
How did we come to a place where people are not at their MP's and MPP's doors outraged at such legal decisions? How is it that a mother who strangled her baby to death and threw the body over a fence into her neighbor's yard is given barely any jail time* and Canadians nationwide barely seem to care? And even that short sentence is referred to by her lawyer as "unjust" and "almost mean".
And how has our nation come to the point where we don't see a problem with people selling themselves sexually? What possible line of logic is there that makes it acceptable amongst decent people to condone people paying women to have sex with them?


*Note: Through the various news articles I read I wasn't able to get a clear indication of exact time she spent in jail, but 3 year suspended sentence was referenced as well as references that seemed to indicate time spent under some sort of supervision at home.





Step by Step
Sadly, the progression down the ever lowering moral path seems to have a pretty easy history to follow. For decades we tell people that sex isn't really a sacred thing to happen only within marriage. That's old-fashioned, archaic even. We reinforce that constantly through movies and tv, with a sitcom that even has it's six main characters have 85 sexual partners altogether in just 10 years (cuz, y'know, that's healthy and normal). And as we're minimizing sex that way we also loosen up further by more and more freely dispersing explicit sexual material over the years. After all, if it's okay for people to get paid to have sex in order for porn to get made, how exactly is that meaningfully different from prostitution?
On the other issue it started decades ago with the argument that unborn babies weren't really babies, just "tissue", or "fetuses". So getting rid of that is okay. So by that twist of logic the door is opened. Years pass of it becoming increasingly normal and common, and suddenly I noticed in arguments that the old lie isn't even being used anymore. After all, with our increases in technology it's become ridiculous to still try and claim that the unborn baby isn't, in fact, a baby. Now it's just become so common and people so desensitized that we'll admit we're killing babies, but for some reason that's okay. So then the story of a mother strangling her healthy, newborn baby to death comes up and, instead of shock, we get a judge giving virtually no sentence and comparing what she did to abortion. And we get British ethicists saying that killing a baby is no different from abortion (to which I agree), and then concluding that we should never do either.... no that'd be silly, what they actually concluded was that people should have the right to do both. Yes, they actually argue that parents should be allowed to kill their newborn babies. This is what the bright minds of ethicists for Oxford University concluded.
After all, if we can kill babies in the womb, and we can kill babies in the middle of being born, why wouldn't it be okay to just kill them after they're born too? 

Brave New World
As I consider these two issues, and the many more I could have used as examples, I can't help but think of the atheists that I've talked with who insist that God isn't needed to have morals and a moral society, and there are better moral foundations than the long-held teachings of the Bible. And then I look at the "progress" our society has made and shudder. In just a few decades we've gone as a culture from valuing the morals of sex only within marriage, to mocking the idea and giving the okay to prostitution, pimps (we'll call them bodyguards for prostitutes though, because it sounds more civilized) and brothels. And we've gone from valuing life above all to throwing a suspended sentence to a person who threw her dead baby over a fence.


Unless there is a major spiritual re-awakening in our culture can we honestly expect things to get anything but worse?

Addendum
A friend of mine who read this suggested I should add in what the solution to all of this is, saying that if there isn't one it looks like I'm just complaining. I disagree in that trying to wake people up to the reality of what's happening around them is more than complaining, but nonetheless the common sense suggestions are also the obvious ones: First and foremost, prayer. Second, speaking up to your  government representatives in any way you can, until hopefully somebody somewhere starts to listen. Here's a handy website that lets you find your local MP using your postal code.