"The Bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst."
- Martin Luther
Thursday, May 13, 2004
If you get a chance you might want to motor over to The Dawn Patrol and check this post about her recent run-in with James D. Watson, discoverer of DNA and chilling eugenics advocate.
"They say I'm a killer," Watson went on, his tired eyes taking on fire. "It's those right-to-lifers."
"They say I'm a killer," he repeated, "and everyone's afraid of offending them." He was still looking at the other scientist. The scientist, whom I know didn't share his views, maintained an attentive silence?partly, I believe, out of gentlemanly respect, and partly out of not wanting to put gasoline on a fire.
But I had nothing to lose. So I took a deep breath, adjusted my jaw so it was back in line with my upper lip, and said, in the gentlest voice I could muster, "I'd love to know more about why you feel that way, as I'm a right-to-lifer myself."
Watson looked me in the eye and told me he was qualified to advocate in favor of mothers choosing to abort "unhealthy" children because he wished he could have aborted his own son, who is mentally handicapped.
[This comes via The Fireant Gazette]
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Comments on "Dawn Eden - A Stand-Up Girl":
2. LilacRose
- 05/13/2004 3:47 pm CDT
Here are two examples of this kind of arrogance and what it leads to: Dawn Eden confronts Dr. James D....
3. Jared
- 05/13/2004 5:06 pm CDT
What about the Professor of Ethics at Princeton (Peter something-or-other) who is fine with killing the elderly and the handicapped?
Sometimes I think these sickos just say this stuff to have an audience. If they really believe their perversion, I don't know what to do.
A heart empty of Jesus is capable of any sin imaginable.
4. Sozo
- 05/13/2004 6:35 pm CDT
Yeah, the guy at Princeton is Peter Singer. He's a very scary individual. He's also fine with killing newborns. But he's not ok, and get this, with killing dolphins, gorillas, etc.
He does this based on a functional definition of personhood. That is, he defines a person based on what they are capable of(i.e. self-awareness), rather than what they esentially are.
Scott Klusendorf has a good article if you're interested in reading more :
http://www.equip.org/free/DD801.pdf
5. Raindream
- 05/14/2004 3:32 am CDT
I find it both nice and scary when pagens like this unapologetically endorse the logical end of their ideas. God help us.
My Lord, that makes me shudder.The utter audacity. Knightmarishly horrid.