{"id":93,"date":"2008-06-06T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T15:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.consider.org\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-06-06T09:29:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T15:29:43","slug":"rational-evil-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hushbeck.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/rational-evil-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Rational Evil II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week I continue my discussion of the development of secular thought following the holocaust. To briefly summarize, the Holocaust had its roots in the attempt to apply the principles of evolution to society, from which the sciences of Social Darwinism and Eugenics flowed.\u00a0 These new sciences were rightly rejected following the holocaust because the results they produced conflicted with Human Rights, a concept grounded in the belief that we were created by God and are equal in his eyes.<\/p>\n

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As society became more secular the religious foundations of Human rights was abandoned and equal in God\u2019s eyes became merely equal; but such an undefined equality is threatened by our clear individuality, which is defined by our differences. This attempt to maintain Human Rights in a secular worldview defined by evolution has resulted in a number of competing, and at times contradictory, lines of thought.<\/p>\n

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The first has been that since differences pose such a danger, their existence is simply denied, or at least relegated to insignificance. In short, despite any differences, we are all really the same, and therefore since we are the same, we are all equal. A whole range of absurdities have flowed from this intellectual strategy, not the least of which is the belief that there is no difference between men and women.<\/p>\n

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While historically women have not had equal status in virtually any society, that seems to have come from the importance of strength in early cultures and the role it played in survival, and from the fact that in general men are stronger than women.\u00a0 It did not come from the religious teachings of the Bible, but ran contrary to it. Starting in the first chapter of Genesis, God has made it clear that He views men and women as equal, and both are created in his image.\u00a0 \u00a0As Genesis 1:27 says,<\/p>\n

So God created mankind in his own image;<\/p>\n

in his own image God created him;<\/p>\n

male and female he created them.
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In the New Testament, Paul also makes this explicitly clear. \u201cBecause all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.\u201d\u00a0 (Galatians\u00a0 3:28 ISV<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Men and women have different strengths and different weakness. They react to things differently, and have different natures. But despite all of our differences, men and women are equal it the place that it matters most, in the eyes of God. Human nature being what it is, this core equality has not, and in some places today is not, always recognized, but where and when it has been, it has not been contrary too, but in line with, Biblical teaching.<\/p>\n

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But as equal in God\u2019s eyes, became merely equal, this equality was difficult to maintain given all the clear differences. Something had to go, and since equality was needed for human rights, even though the differences are pretty clear to most, not to mention common sense, they were simply denied.<\/p>\n

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But then common sense was one of the first things that had to be tossed out, if one is going to maintain equality among differences that are clearly not equal. So common sense was rejected as unscientific and untrustworthy. In its place was the study. In fact I have heard more than one college professor say that they won\u2019t believe anything unless there is a study to support it.<\/p>\n

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Such thinking, (or unthinking as the case may be) has been very convenient for secularist as the results of studies are very strongly influenced by what questions researchers seek answers to.\u00a0 There are pros and cons to most things. Look for the pros of any given issue and you can probably find supporting evidence.\u00a0 Look for the cons, and you can find negative evidence.\u00a0 Thus what \u201cthe research\u201d states for any given issue will be strongly influenced by what questions the researchers are asking.<\/p>\n

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Another factor for men and women being the same was that it was so taken for granted, that it had not really been studied. Thus through a mixture of scientific mumbo-jumbo, and an absence studies showing they were different, men and women were proclaimed to be the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This thinking so strongly influenced people that parents began giving their boys dolls, and their little girls trucks.\u00a0 Distinctions in clothing began to disappear as did any distinction in roles.\u00a0 Those who tried to point out differences were shouted down as sexists.<\/p>\n

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Of course the problem is that men and women are different, not just in their biology, but in their natures.\u00a0 But the belief that men and women are the same still remain entrenched in many universities and still has a strong influence over social policy, as for example in the same sex marriage debate.<\/p>\n

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It has been one of the ironies that while we were supposedly throwing off the chains of sexual repression so as to allow boys and girls to be what they wanted to be, society was at the same time very strongly pushing them to be something they were not: the same.\u00a0 The result has been untold unhappiness and pain.<\/p>\n

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But this was not the only absurdity to develop out of the post WWII secularist attempt to maintain human rights apart from God. Next week I look at a different approach that has also led not only to absurdity, but also to unhappiness and pain.<\/p>\n

This is Elgin Hushbeck, asking you to Consider Christianity<\/a>: a Faith Based on Fact.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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