The first is the statistic about the religious background of incoming freshmen at Harvard. The second is the passage of legislation permitting assisted suicide in California. He writes:
Though it might seem strange to suggest as much, I believe that the make-up of the Harvard freshman class and the passing of the suicide law are related.
In his second to last Paragraph he writes:
The denial of God -- or the blithe bracketing of the question of God -- is not a harmless parlor game. Rather, it carries with it the gravest implications. If there is no God, then our lives do indeed belong to us, and we can do with them what we want. If there is no God, our lives have no ultimate meaning or transcendent purpose, and they become simply artifacts of our own designing.
Even worse than becoming artifacts of our own designing, they are accidents, the result of some random sequence of events. This perspective permeates our culture. With this perspective, there is no value to human life. It is an accident. You are not meant to be or to be here. Why should anyone care if you are here? Why not remove you from this life, and do so without consequence?
With this perspective it is impossible to justify "Thou shall not kill." If we persist in this perspective, it is only a matter of time before our culture devolves into 1st century Rome and gladiatorial combats as entertainment.
You ought to read his entire article,. It isn't very long, and makes some excellent points.
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