[picapp align=”right” wrap=”true” link=”term=worth&iid=175814″ src=”0172/f1c91276-dabb-4ad6-a689-f468004e4013.jpg?adImageId=8861712&imageId=175814″ width=”234″ height=”156″ /]Whatever the future holds, it is likely to prove impossible to restore in full the sanctity of life view. The philosophical foundations of this view have been knocked asunder. We can no longer base our ethics on the idea that human beings are a special form of creation, made in the image of God, singled out from all other animals, and alone possessing an immortal soul. Homo sapiens endows its life with some unique, almost infinite value? Dr. Peter Singer, PhD. In Pediatrics, ‘Sanctity of life or quality of life?’, 72(1):128–9, July, 1983
I remember when this article first was published. I ran across it again this morning. The content of Dr. Singer’s assertion has been reprinted again and again in the past quarter century. We may not be “progressing” as quickly as the Princeton professor predicted, but we are continuing the slog toward deciding that humanity is nothing really special after all. Homo sapiens is just one grouping of many biological anomalies, an expression of the infinite possibilities of an arbitrary combination of “animate” elements.
American culture makes a show of continuing to argue the philosophical merits of Dr. Singer’s statement while simultaneously behaving as if it believes every word. While we decry the senseless loss of life due to military and terrorist activities, our country terminates somewhere between 1,300,000 and 1,400,000 pregnancies each year through surgical and chemical abortion. (The estimate is somewhere between 30,000,000 and 50,000,000 abortion terminated pregnancies worldwide.) Abortion is among the most common surgical procedures practiced in the United States and termination of a potential person may described in the same terms as the removal of intestinal polyp.
From my office window I can see the sun reflect off the crystalline blanket the clouds pulled over the ground last night and I wonder if my ability to feel something we call appreciation and wonder is worthwhile at all. If all I am is a piece of livestock, consuming the resources available to me and producing waste byproducts then what? Furthermore, why should I care what Dr. Singer or anyone else says? We are all just heads of wheat readying for the death of the harvest.
“I am nothing—how could I ever find the answers? I will cover my mouth with my hand. I have said too much already. I have nothing more to say.” (Job 40:4-5, NLT)
“He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.” I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.“ (Psalm 2:4-7, ESV)
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It is truly interesting, is it not, that we find ways to justify the basic (in the worst sense of the word) “pride of life” that causes each of us to attempt to elevate ourselves above others while at once proclaiming “equality.” If an unborn child is not human, then the woman who bears that child is not human either. However, that isn’t the issue here. The issue is that the woman considers her “self” of more importance than the child she carries…hence, the “pride of life.” When we deny God in our hearts He turns us to a reprobate mind, I do believe that’s what Romans is speaking of. We lose the ability to pursue the wonder He has created. We call evil good and never, ever appreciate the beauty and glory He so desires to share with us. It is heart rending. It is so very foolish. Whenever we consider ourselves as more important than another for any reason, (from the murder of abortion to the arrogance of walking away from the love God gives us for one another-to consider other’s as more important than ourselves) it doesn’t matter. One is as ugly as the other. It truly is an irony, that in the midst of all this God expects us to live in obedience WITH JOY AND ABUNDANCE OF LIFE. But then, He provides the grace to do what He says, with the joy He provides.