The dogma of the "sanctity" of every human individual
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:55 am
Regardless of anything else other than he or she is more or less identifiably Homo sapiens) in the name of which entire animal species have been and will continue to be exterminated (one case among many: the Japanese White Crane became extinct two years ago, its last breeding grounds turned into chemical-sprayed rice fields to produce food for a few more of Asia's expanding human billions) and on the altar of which, ironically enough, mankind may make the ultimate sacrifice of himself, is inexplicable without a tacit acceptance of the existence of the individual soul, the "finger-print of the personality".
The Christian God determined that the soul would be given the right to choose eternal life by rejecting sin. Sin, so the Christians tell us, is a human business, animals being unable to reject or commit sin, and the phone number list soul is a human business too, other animals having none. While on the one hand modern Western man rejects the Biblical historical accounts as fables at best, he still believes deeply in the inherent equality of all people and their intrinsic right to as much wealth as they can get for themselves. The wise adage that virtue consists in giving more than taking has been forgotten with the decline of Christianity but the notion of equality before God has not.
The result is that Western society believes in the equal right of all to get as much out of the rest of the world as they can. With exquisite hypocrisy Western democracies preach human rights while the Western system is one which reduces the power of the sovereign individual in the name of freedom but what is freedom without power? Ultimately it is no freedom.The citizen of the West has a small and ever diminishing influence over economic and political events. Increasingly he/she is informed of the inevitability of economic and political developments and the futility of trying to oppose them. This writer made the experiment of informing one gullible German friend that European integration would include rationalising the calendar months, which after 1998 would all consist of thirty days. The reaction? Belief and resignation: How stupid, typical, but what can you do?
The Christian God determined that the soul would be given the right to choose eternal life by rejecting sin. Sin, so the Christians tell us, is a human business, animals being unable to reject or commit sin, and the phone number list soul is a human business too, other animals having none. While on the one hand modern Western man rejects the Biblical historical accounts as fables at best, he still believes deeply in the inherent equality of all people and their intrinsic right to as much wealth as they can get for themselves. The wise adage that virtue consists in giving more than taking has been forgotten with the decline of Christianity but the notion of equality before God has not.
The result is that Western society believes in the equal right of all to get as much out of the rest of the world as they can. With exquisite hypocrisy Western democracies preach human rights while the Western system is one which reduces the power of the sovereign individual in the name of freedom but what is freedom without power? Ultimately it is no freedom.The citizen of the West has a small and ever diminishing influence over economic and political events. Increasingly he/she is informed of the inevitability of economic and political developments and the futility of trying to oppose them. This writer made the experiment of informing one gullible German friend that European integration would include rationalising the calendar months, which after 1998 would all consist of thirty days. The reaction? Belief and resignation: How stupid, typical, but what can you do?