Sanctity of Life: Here Today Gone Tomorrow

[Rosalinda]

During the next 35 years, the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological, and demographic developments. By 2040, it may be that only a rump of hard-core, know-nothing religious fundamentalists will defend the view that every human life, from conception to death, is sacrosanct.

In retrospect, 2005 may be seen as the year in which that position became untenable. American conservatives have for several years been in the awkward position of defending a federal funding ban on creating new embryos for research that prevents U.S. scientists from leading an area of biomedical research that could revolutionize the treatment of many common diseases. When they are honest, conservatives acknowledge that giving up some medical advances is simply the price to be paid for doing the right thing…

In this Foreign Policy article, Peter Singer, professor at Princeton University gloats over the demise of Teresa Schindler Schiavo, as well as hot button issues: embryonic stem cells, euthanasia and the definition of personhood. iaetf.org/

 

[Eileen_T]

The meek shall inherit the earth.

Those who are working to promote the Culture of Death are not replacing themselves. This is seen in the ‘sanctity of life effect’ where those “hard-core, know-nothing religious fundamentalists” are (and have been for 30 years) having more children than those who are not ‘meek.’

 

[John21652]

In this Foreign Policy article, Peter Singer, professor at Princeton University gloats over the demise of Teresa Schindler Schiavo, as well as hot button issues: embryonic stem cells, euthanasia and the definition of personhood. iaetf.org/

Singer bases all his ethical and Philosophical rants on utilitarianism, which is a horribly flawed and anti-Christian philosophical standard. If you track down his 1985 essay on animal rights, you will see that he states that the Bible is myth and he accuses humanity of speceism. He directly blames the Judeo-Christian heritage of the west for the ills he percieves in our society. The man is a threat to our religious and cultural heritage and, I submit, a primary cause of the secularisation of morality.