The Value of Human Life
The value of human life is key to understanding some of the current worldview that connects abortion to the acceptance of racism. There is a deep level of selfishness that fuels this error.
Racism and abortion devalue life — both driven by the same insidious ideology. This ideology continues to work its effects in the devaluing of human life, revealing itself in any form of prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against any of our fellow human beings. Any form of prejudice stems from one person deciding another is unworthy. The focus on racism does not get to the root of the subject. To eradicate prejudice in any form, the value of all human life must be deeply rooted. Any diminishment puts all at risk.
So let’s start at the crux - Who determines the beginning of life? Who determines worth? Do the powerful decide the powerless are insignificant? Does skin color, whatever color that may be, grant authority over others? Should helplessness or strength determine worth?
“This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both... but most of all beware this boy.” There exists a palpable ignorance that grows in such degree that the lies become the truth and the truth is then considered a dangerous and prejudiced lie; the lie that flips the moral truth of the value of life on its head. This lack of moral truth then separates and defeats by internal destruction. And if not defeated by internal destruction, by the external destruction that is inevitable from the skewed, oh so revoltingly skewed, philosophy.
We deal with a plague of ignorance concerning the value of all, including the tiniest of humans which, in turn, gives credence to devaluing the lives of others. How can this ignorance, fueled by willful blindness and spiritual emptiness, be defeated? The defeat comes from moral truth, and moral truth emanates from the only place from which it is able, The Designer, the Author, the Beginning and End.
Footnote
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
