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Do you believe human life is inherently valuable? Unfortunately, in the secularized age of state-sanctioned euthanasia and abortion-on-demand, many are losing faith in the simple value of human life. To the disillusioned, human beings are a cosmic accident whose intrinsic value is worth no more than other animals. The Death of Humanity explores our culture’s declining respect for the sanctity of human life, drawing on philosophy and history to reveal the dark road ahead for society if we lose our faith in human life.
From the Inside Flap
Does Human Life Matter?
Many, today, think the answer is: no.
It is not just abortion-on-demand (considered an indispensable right); it is the creeping idea that the disabled should have been aborted as “unproductive” human beings. It is state-sanctioned suicide. It is the dismissal of the elderly as drains on the healthcare system.
The idea that human life is intrinsically valuable is dying side by side with our Christian culture, says author and intellectual historian Richard Weikart. He traces the dangerous trends in Western thinking that could spell what he calls The Death of Humanity.
In his shocking new book, Weikart reveals:
- Why ideas that were used to justify genocide, forced famine, and compulsory sterilization are back in vogue
- How murder has been—and will be—justified as biologically or socially determined
- Why “human rights” might soon become a thing of the past
- How amoral technological progress has overtaken the idea of moral human progress
- Why “animal rights” has nothing to do with being kind and considerate to animals, and everything to do with degrading man
- Why things we take for granted, remnants from our Christian heritage like prohibitions against infanticide, might soon be no more
Long ago, the philosopher Richard Weaver reminded us that “ideas have consequences.” Those consequences, as Richard Weikart explains, are coming home to roost, and they could be truly frightening.
