Ideas have consequences
DEAR EDITOR:
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.'”
This quote from M.L. King Jr. came during his 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech. He was quoting part of the Declaration of Independence penned by Thomas Jefferson. The idea that we are created beings endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights is without question a Biblical, Judeo-Christian idea.
There is another idea, one that conflicts with this idea, that comes from a man named Charles Darwin. According to him, we are not created beings at all, but the products of a natural process without the need of a creator. It is Darwin’s idea that is taught in all our public schools and universities today. The idea that we are created beings is not allowed to be taught even though our founding fathers saw it as self-evident truth.
One of the sacred documents of Darwin’s idea is his book, “The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.”
Who did Darwin think were the favored races? You will not have to look very hard to find the answer. Ideas have consequences and bad ideas have victims. In his book, “A Christian Manifesto,” Francis Schaeffer comments on the clash of the two ideas. “These two world views stand as totals in complete antithesis in content and also in their natural results … It is not just that they happen to bring forth different results, but it is absolutely inevitable that they will bring forth different results.” Our modern secularist have tried to domesticate Darwin’s idea and make it work as their creation story. I do not believe his idea can be domesticated. It is an inherently racist idea at its core.
The person and teaching of Jesus has provided us with a solid base for culture and law. His teachings have given form to our freedom. Without him and his teachings our freedom has become chaos and confusion and ugly.
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? Jesus replied: love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment and a second is like it: love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:36-40.
This idea has had no victims. There have been and are victims because we do not live out the true meaning of this idea. We have seen and are seeing the living out of Darwin’s idea and there are multiple millions of victims. The more we live out his idea the more there are victims.
JON P. HALL
North Bloomfield
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