Christian Family Values

I keep wondering about these "family values " and the idea that there was a time when families had more or better values than families have today. There seems to be a consensus among the fundamentalists that if we could just get back to those values, all of our problems would be solved. I have heard that as a "Christian nation," we are in deep trouble because our families are missing certain critical values, i.e., …

…slavery. The Bible upholds slavery in every way, in the cruelest and most vile ways, it allows it and not one Christian questions the "morals" of the atrocities told within it's pages. We must not hope to bring back Christian values, we must hope to bring, for once, a true secular society where every child will be wanted, where every parent will teach critical thinking, and where our government will not attempt to dictate morality.