Posted on 02/08/2005 8:12:31 PM PST by CHARLITE
Would you first save the dog you love or a stranger if both were drowning? The answer depends on your value system.
One of the most obvious and significant differences between secular and Judeo-Christian values concerns human worth. One of the great ironies of secular humanism is that it devalues the worth of human beings. As ironic as it may sound, the God-based Judeo-Christian value system renders man infinitely more valuable and significant than any humanistic value system.
The reason is simple: Only if there is a God who created man is man worth anything beyond the chemicals of which he is composed. Judeo-Christian religions hold that human beings are created in the image of G-d. If we are not, we are created in the image of carbon dioxide. Which has a higher value is not difficult to determine. Contemporary secular society has rendered human beings less significant than at any time in Western history.
First, the secular denial that human beings are created in G-d's image has led to humans increasingly being equated with animals. That is why over the course of 30 years of asking high school seniors if they would first try to save their dog or a stranger, two-thirds have voted against the person. They either don't know what they would do or actually vote for their dog. Many adults now vote similarly.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
What if the choice was between a dog and Howard Dean ?
What then.....
Choices, choices.
This column was already posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338424/posts
"Would you first save the dog you love or a stranger if both were drowning? The answer depends on your value system."
If the drowning human was a proMarxist ideologue, the crisis may not present a moral dilemma.
SPOTREP - Ethics - Survive
Char :)
PING for later reading
Choices, choices, choices. :):)
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