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Developing a Basis for a Moral Foundation
1. A moral foundation must be based on the belief in the dignity and worth of the individual.

2. A moral foundation must be based on the belief in personal responsibility and accountability. Each person is a free moral agent and is free to act either for good or bad. The good must be promoted and rewarded; the bad denounced and punished.

3. A moral foundation must be based upon some form of authority. That authority may be tradition, self, man made laws or some form of natural law. For the Christian, his authority is the Bible.

4. A moral foundation must demonstrate a concern for the need of the greater society and future generations.

5. A moral foundation must take into consideration the importance of the family as the basic unity of society.

6. A moral foundation must include the establishing of personal ideals, goals and the conviction that one’s actions can be used to make our world a better world.

7. A moral foundation must be based upon the fact that we face a world of good and evil, moral and immoral. We must learn to choose the good and avoid the evil. We must understand what is moral and what is immoral. The child must be taught what is right and wrong.

8. A moral foundation recognizes that each person exerts a good or bad influence upon society and those around him.

9. A moral foundation must be based upon the conviction that destructive ideas and actions should be exposed and denounced.

10. A moral foundation must establish a unifying center to which a society may adhere.