Take the issue of the value of human life. When you remove God from the equation, life becomes cheap. Because we’re made in the image of God, human life has value.
Human beings are different than the animals, says the Bible. Recently I read portions of a great book, The Death of Humanity: and The Case For Life by history professor Dr. Richard Weikart, who wrote the classic book, From Darwin to Hitler.
Dr. Weikart writes,
Western society is in deep trouble today. Once we identify some segments of humanity as ‘life unworthy of life’ or ‘sub-human,’ to use phrases commonly used before and during the Nazi period, we have jettisoned any basis for valuing humans as humans. We have effectively undermined all human rights, because now we can decide which humans have rights and which do not.
In contrast, the founders of America said in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are the right to life.” The first right they listed is the right to life.
[Well put. The grinding effort to remove God from our founding documents and daily lives is part and parcel of the same effort on the progressive Left to turn us into our own gods, with our own whimsical “truths” and ersatz “science,” especially in terms of human biology. Omission of God and of the right to life are not coincidental to the commodification of human life and self-idolization. They are essential to it. — Ed]
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