" So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."
Genesis, 1:27
Therein we find the basis for the belief in the uniqueness of human life.
1. The more secular society becomes, the lower the value placed on human life, and, it seems the higher that of animals.
One cannot help but conjecture that the above characteristic is what resulted in 100 million humans having been slaughtered by secular big government in the last century.
As society moves away from the religious basis on which America was founded, we see more people with a skewed view of the value of people, and animals. (Please don't bring up 'animal kingdom...')
2. Taken a step further, we find that the President who favored infanticide, Barack Obama, actually appointed Professor Peter Singer as his heathcare advisor.
Peter Singer Joins Obama's Health Care Administrators : I Am Not a Fan of Peter Singer Story & Experience
Peter Singer Joins Obama s Health Care Administrators I Am Not a Fan of Peter Singer Story Experience
a. "Singer once wrote, "because people are human does not mean that their lives are more valuable than animals."He not only advocates abortion but also killing disabled babies up to 28 days after they are born.In his book "Practical Ethics," he wrote, "When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed....Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person.Often, it is not wrong at all."
Peter Singer, "Practical Ethics," Cambridge University Press, 1979, p. 191.
3. “A recent paper by Richard Topolski at George Regents University and colleagues, published in the journal Anthrozo?s, demonstrates this human involvement with pets to a startling extent. Participants in the study were told a hypothetical scenario in which a bus is hurtling out of control, bearing down on a dog and a human. Which do you save? With responses from more than 500 people, the answer was that it depended: What kind of human and what kind of dog?
“Everyone would save a sibling, grandparent or close friend rather than a strange dog. But when people considered their own dog versus people less connected with them — a distant cousin or a hometown stranger — votes in favor of saving the dog came rolling in. And an astonishing 40 percent of respondents, including 46 percent of women, voted to save their dog over a foreign tourist.”
Dogs, Strangers and God - The Dennis Prager Show
4. The story is new today....
"A gorilla named Harambe has been shot at the Cincinnati zoo to prevent harm to a toddler who fell into its enclosure. A Huffington Post headline reads, “RIP: Captive gorilla shot”. Rest in peace? It was the gorilla that died, and animals, so far as we know, don’t need that kind of obituary.
It could have been the four-year-old boy instead of the gorilla -- in which case an RIP headline would make sense, because the child is a human being with, according to one mainstream belief system, an immortal soul which, all going well, is destined for heavenly rest. Then again, given his innocence, such pious wishes may be superfluous even for him.
Shooting Harambe was unfortunate, but the right thing to do if we value the lives of children more than the lives of animals.
If you don't have a moral compass, you end up in some pretty strange places."
MercatorNet: Even a silver-backed gorilla is not worth more than a child
Genesis, 1:27
Therein we find the basis for the belief in the uniqueness of human life.
1. The more secular society becomes, the lower the value placed on human life, and, it seems the higher that of animals.
One cannot help but conjecture that the above characteristic is what resulted in 100 million humans having been slaughtered by secular big government in the last century.
As society moves away from the religious basis on which America was founded, we see more people with a skewed view of the value of people, and animals. (Please don't bring up 'animal kingdom...')
2. Taken a step further, we find that the President who favored infanticide, Barack Obama, actually appointed Professor Peter Singer as his heathcare advisor.
Peter Singer Joins Obama's Health Care Administrators : I Am Not a Fan of Peter Singer Story & Experience
Peter Singer Joins Obama s Health Care Administrators I Am Not a Fan of Peter Singer Story Experience
a. "Singer once wrote, "because people are human does not mean that their lives are more valuable than animals."He not only advocates abortion but also killing disabled babies up to 28 days after they are born.In his book "Practical Ethics," he wrote, "When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed....Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person.Often, it is not wrong at all."
Peter Singer, "Practical Ethics," Cambridge University Press, 1979, p. 191.
3. “A recent paper by Richard Topolski at George Regents University and colleagues, published in the journal Anthrozo?s, demonstrates this human involvement with pets to a startling extent. Participants in the study were told a hypothetical scenario in which a bus is hurtling out of control, bearing down on a dog and a human. Which do you save? With responses from more than 500 people, the answer was that it depended: What kind of human and what kind of dog?
“Everyone would save a sibling, grandparent or close friend rather than a strange dog. But when people considered their own dog versus people less connected with them — a distant cousin or a hometown stranger — votes in favor of saving the dog came rolling in. And an astonishing 40 percent of respondents, including 46 percent of women, voted to save their dog over a foreign tourist.”
Dogs, Strangers and God - The Dennis Prager Show
4. The story is new today....
"A gorilla named Harambe has been shot at the Cincinnati zoo to prevent harm to a toddler who fell into its enclosure. A Huffington Post headline reads, “RIP: Captive gorilla shot”. Rest in peace? It was the gorilla that died, and animals, so far as we know, don’t need that kind of obituary.
It could have been the four-year-old boy instead of the gorilla -- in which case an RIP headline would make sense, because the child is a human being with, according to one mainstream belief system, an immortal soul which, all going well, is destined for heavenly rest. Then again, given his innocence, such pious wishes may be superfluous even for him.
Shooting Harambe was unfortunate, but the right thing to do if we value the lives of children more than the lives of animals.
If you don't have a moral compass, you end up in some pretty strange places."
MercatorNet: Even a silver-backed gorilla is not worth more than a child
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