Pro-life vid of day: “The Race to Save Our Century”
by Hans Johnson
In the new book The Race to Save Our Century: Five Core Principles to Promote Peace, Freedom, and a Culture of Life, to be released today, authors Jason Jones and John Zmirak (both pictured right) warn that the unprecedented death toll in the 20th century could be eclipsed in the 21st. They “call on readers to embrace and promote five core principles of a Culture of Life”:
1. The innate dignity of every human person, regardless of race, age, or handicap.
2. The existence of a transcendent moral order, by which we judge the justice of all laws and policies.
3. The need for a humane economy that embraces freedom in a context of social responsibility.
4. The crucial importance of decentralized, responsive government that preserves civil society and freedom.
5. The need for solidarity, for a sense of fellow feeling and common obligation toward each and every member of the human race.
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the unprecedented death toll in the 20th century could be eclipsed in the 21st. They “call on readers to embrace and promote five core principles of a Culture of Life.
Despite some philosophical differences with the authors, I certainly agree on their proposition that we may be headed for bad times.
Some might feel that “the End Times are near,” and that we’re “going to hell in a handbasket,” so to speak, on religious/moral grounds.
I see it in terms of resource shortage/economic chaos/population pressure itself.
I am sure we are headed into some relatively “bad” decades; just how bad – nobody knows. I also think that the ‘megatrends’ now in force will mean that the two authors, among many others, will be disappointed with how things work out.