[civility] please skip over this post if it offends you

Australian Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop has called for good manners to be taught in schools, saying there has been a "decline in civility in Australia". Of course there has - not only in Australia - and the blame is fairly and squarely laid at the feet of two generations of godless humanists who have hijacked education, the arts and music, stamped out the Christian ethic in favour of self-fulfilment and the pursuit of the dollar and left youth in a spiritual void which they’re trying to fill but with no guidance from their elders. They’re essentially alone but being young, don’t know it yet. Why are narcotics so rampant in the young, for example? Because humanistic values fulfil them? Give me a break! Where Ms Bishop loses the plot though, is in saying "if we are to institutionalise civility we must ensure that schools are reinforcing community standards and common values." As can be seen from the many blogcomments around the sphere, there is strong resistance in the community to decency and a return to Christian values. It’s the old adage – you can lead a horse to water…