One of the publisher’s statement about Richard Weikart’s new book “The Death of Humanity: And the Case for Life”— which you can find here—is “What is this world coming to? Some zoos around the world have put humans on display” and I will add that conversely animals are being granted human rights as well as rivers—see There are now 3 rivers that legally have the same rights as humans about which human babies in the womb said, “Excuse me: what about us?!?!?!”
They also note that “Physicians in Switzerland are killing ‘suicide tourists,’ even when they are neither sick nor in pain”—see Now a Dutch doctor kills patient to ‘spare her’ from living in care home,
Doctor killed 300 patients in euthanasia to free-up hospital beds and Euthanasia doctors are killing mentally ill patients sometimes without their consent.
Also, “Some bioethicists are promoting ‘after-birth abortions’ These are just a few shocking examples of the dehumanizing tendencies that permeate Western culture today.”
Enter Richard Weikart, about whom I previously posted Adolf Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress, who “explains how secular ideologies have undermined the Judeo-Christian sanctity-of-life ethic.”
“He shows the harmful consequences of this and demonstrates the poverty of secular alternatives to the Christian vision of humanity” and “defends the sanctity of human life, addressing suicide, abortion, euthanasia, eugenics, and transhumanism.”
I heard an interview with Prof. Weikart wherein he was asked something about pornography, pedophilia, etc. and so I made him aware of the stats I collected and posted as Why do Atheist countries lead the production of child pornography?
Ravi Zacharias stated the following:
“Many prominent Western intellectuals have dispensed with the view that humans are created in the image of God and thus have immeasurable value and inalienable rights,” writes Professor Weikart. In my four decades of speaking in university open forums, I have witnessed the logical consequences of this belief that humanity is a cosmic accident: wherever I go I meet student after student troubled by haunting questions of meaning and purpose. Weikart demonstrates the impoverishment of philosophies that reject the Judeo-Christian worldview—but “still retain some of the vestiges of the Judeo-Christian morality that they claim to spurn”—and shows how Christianity uniquely makes sense of our questions of meaning, purpose, morality, and dignity.
His book will sober and challenge you.
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