by Emmett Smith

This just in! Some organization called the World Technology Network has issued to Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University, the 2003 World Technology Award for Ethics. Now, I don’t know just what these folks consider ethical, but the guy they’ve honored with this award is infamous for his contention that newborn babies up to 28 days old should be put to death if their life is deemed substandard due to some diagnosed "disability."

It1s not too difficult to see where that philosophy is headed, is it? Don’t you know that "the one who has the power of death," as stated in Hebrews 2:14, is chortling? He's already got us putting, on average, 3,500 per month to death in the name of "choice." Now the prospect of untold thousands of additional innocents slaughtered must be highly pleasurable to the evil one. Of course, Singer, et. al., don't at all mean to stop with infants. If they have their way, any, of any age, who are judged "unfit" (read inconvenient), will be killed. Singer also has been very influential among the so-called animal rights activists, and believes animals should be valued as highly as humans. Of course, all these ideas are really only the logical outcome of belief in naturalistic humanism's denial of God.

How ironic that our Lord defeated the evil one with his own weapon! Hebrews 2:14 (ESV) says, "Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil." The evil one uses death as his primary tool. He knows that once he succeeds in getting us to embrace a culture of death, his company in hell will be increased proportionately.

Jesus, on the other hand, came "that they may have life and have it abundantly" according to John 10:10 (ESV). The contrast should be eye opening. A culture of death versus the abundant life. Hmmm ... I wonder which I should choose ...