The Death of Humanity: and the Case for Life - Hardcover

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The list of Regnery authors reads like a "who's who" of conservative thought, action, and history.

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Does Human Life Matter?

Many, today, think the answer is: no.

It is not just abortion-on-demand (considered an indispensable right); it is the creeping idea that the disabled should have been aborted as "unproductive" human beings. It is state-sanctioned suicide. It is the dismissal of the elderly as drains on the healthcare system.

The idea that human life is intrinsically valuable is dying side by side with our Christian culture, says author and intellectual historian Richard Weikart. He traces the dangerous trends in Western thinking that could spell what he calls The Death of Humanity.

In his shocking new book, Weikart reveals:

Why ideas that were used to justify genocide, forced famine, and compulsory sterilization are back in vogue
How murder has been--and will be--justified as biologically or socially determined
Why "human rights" might soon become a thing of the past
How amoral technological progress has overtaken the idea of moral human progress
Why "animal rights" has nothing to do with being kind and considerate to animals, and everything to do with degrading man
Why things we take for granted, remnants from our Christian heritage like prohibitions against infanticide, might soon be no more

Long ago, the philosopher Richard Weaver reminded us that "ideas have consequences." Those consequences, as Richard Weikart explains, are coming home to roost, and they could be truly frightening.

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