{"id":21949,"date":"2014-08-20T21:50:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T01:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21949"},"modified":"2014-08-20T22:03:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T02:03:56","slug":"richard-dawkins-thinks-it-is-immoral-to-allow-downs-syndrome-babies-to-be-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-thinks-it-is-immoral-to-allow-downs-syndrome-babies-to-be-born\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins thinks it is immoral to allow Down\u2019s syndrome babies to be born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/healthnews\/11047072\/Richard-Dawkins-immoral-to-allow-Downs-syndrome-babies-to-be-born.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richard Dawkins, the atheist writer, has claimed it is \u201cimmoral\u201d to allow unborn babies with Down\u2019s syndrome to live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having finally noticed about himself what others have known for years, he went on to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cApparently I&#8217;m a horrid monster for recommending what actually happens to the great majority of Down Syndrome foetuses. They are aborted.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Few atheists, including Richard Dawkins since he regularly tells anyone who will listen what he thinks is <em>moral<\/em>, are willing to live with the consequences of their beliefs. Without God, there can be no objective morality; without God there is no human essence, no common human nature; without God, we choose what we become, our essence is defined by that choice and the choice is arbitrary, as is the morality which results from the choice.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Dawkins has chosen <em>human feelings<\/em> as the measure of whether a person is really a person; a foetus does not feel \u2013 supposedly \u2013 so, as a non-person, it is disposable. From a Christian perspective, a person is made in God\u2019s image at the time of conception; that perspective makes Dawkins\u2019 view \u2013 horrid and monstrous.<\/p>\n<p>One consolation is that the Dawkins horrid monster atheistic persona is but a tepid copy of that enjoyed by murderous 20<sup>th<\/sup> century practitioners from Stalin to Pol Pot: they systematised atheism, imposed it on everyone they could and drove it to its inevitable, foul conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Richard Dawkins, the atheist writer, has claimed it is \u201cimmoral\u201d to allow unborn babies with Down\u2019s syndrome to live. Having finally noticed about himself what others have known for years, he went on to say: \u201cApparently I&#8217;m a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-thinks-it-is-immoral-to-allow-downs-syndrome-babies-to-be-born\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2022,2049,2238],"class_list":["post-21949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion","tag-atheism","tag-richard-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}