When "what you feel in your heart" is the proper moral compass

 From The Christian News, 

A study by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University surveyed 2,275 US adults in July and asked them what they would like to see as America's moral guide. 

The America's Values Study found 42 per cent of respondents believe that "what you feel in your heart" is the proper moral compass. 

We all know that some people have evil feelings in  their hearts. I think that disqualifies the heart as a moral compass.

It also discovered that 29 per cent of people believe that majority rule is the best way to decipher between right and wrong. 

When there is no belief in absolute truth, and a true right and a true wrong, moral relativism rules. So how can the majority rule when everyone judges right and wrong for themselves, and your morality is your morality, and my morality is mine?

George Barna, director of research at the Cultural Research Center said people used to get their moral compass from faith. However, the government now seems to have more influence in that area. 

"The research indicates that people are now more likely to take their moral cues from government laws and policies than from church teachings about biblical principles," he said. 

Oh great, our oh so moral politicians are going to set our moral compass. 

"Americans have historically said that when they elect a president they are choosing a chief executive, not a pastor-in-chief, but that distinction appears to be passé. One could reasonably argue that the nation's ideas about right and wrong are now more likely to come from the White House and the halls of Congress, than from our houses of worship. 

I recall Judges 21:25

"In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes."

How did that work out for Israel back then? 

Will history repeat itself?