DOES THE BIBLE SUPPORT EUGENICS?
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
In the Amazon
Prime thought provoking series The Man in the High Castle the term eugenics is
never used but more than once is brought up in various ways; most bluntly stated
as for the good of all the elimination of “useless eaters”. In kindness family members could implement.
If not, then those authorized took the life.
In my lifetime
eugenics was legally practiced in some USA states in the form of forced
sterilization and abortions. Eugenics is still practiced in some parts of the
world. This includes a number of those considered civilized nations. Our USA
history past and currently includes believers in eugenics, with the past
Apollyons outspoken and active, but the latter destroyers restrained and
careful in word and deed. Then commonly before the curtain, now most often
behind the curtain and as with all such suppressed extreme ideologists they are
patiently hopefully waiting.
Some of you know
of eugenics but I must not assume that all do. For those that don’t I begin
with essay from GotQuestions.org.
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Question: "Does the Bible support eugenics?"
Eugenics is a social movement that supports the supposed improvement of the human population via selective breeding and other means. It was originally developed by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, and based upon Darwin’s theory of evolution. Eugenics was practiced openly in the early decades of the 20th century in many countries, including the United States. After WWII, eugenics by that name fell into disfavor when the extent of Nazi atrocities became known. Eugenicists advocate genetic screening, birth control, segregation, transhumanism, euthanasia, compulsory sterilization, forced pregnancies, and abortion.
Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider. Sanger was also a proponent of eugenics who railed against the “reckless breeding” of the “unfit.” In her book Woman and the New Race, she wrote, “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it” (Chapter V, “The Wickedness of Creating Large Families,” 1920). She desired “to breed a race of human thoroughbreds” and would rather a society “produce a thousand thoroughbreds than a million runts” (Radio WFAB Syracuse, February 29, 1924, transcripted in “The Meaning of Radio Birth Control,” April 1924, p. 111).
From its founding, Planned Parenthood has been involved with eugenics. In 1932 the organization received the endorsement of the American Eugenics Society. To this day, Planned Parenthood is targeting those whom Sanger and other eugenicists would call “unfit.” Their 1997 publication Plan of Action stated their “core clients” are “young women, low-income women, and women of color.”
The Bible does not specifically mention eugenics, but the idea behind eugenics—that man can better himself by ridding the world of “undesirable” people—is definitely not biblical. God told mankind to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28; 9:1, 7). No exception to that command is given in Scripture. In fact, King Solomon wrote in Psalm 127:3–5 that children are a heritage from the Lord and that the fruit of the womb is a reward from Him.
God gives us life and numbers our days (Job 33:4; 14:5). The sovereign Lord determines whether we live or die. For social engineers to usurp God’s authority in order to create a self-defined “master race” is evil. We are to obey God, not men (Acts 5:29).
English theologian G. K. Chesterton wrote in his 1922 book Eugenics and Other Evils, “There is no reason in Eugenics, but there is plenty of motive. Its supporters are highly vague about its theory, but they will be painfully practical about its practice” (from Chapter VIII, “A Summary of a False Theory”).
Eugenics is a meritless and immoral social engineering experiment with dubious chances for “success,” as defined by its supporters. It is a slippery slope in which Chesterton’s scientific madmen abrogate the authority of God and seek to create their own utopia on Earth. Through abortion and euthanasia, eugenics is simply murder. Job 24:14 says, “When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.” This is the role of eugenicist: killing the poor and needy and those he deems “unworthy”; preventing a “poor quality of life” (in his estimation) by taking life; denying men’s liberty; and playing God.
“As he went along, [Jesus] saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him’” (John 9:1–3). Who are we to decide who does or does not display the works of God? The Bible tells us to defend the weak (Matthew 25:35–36; Acts 20:35), not to kill them.
Recommended Resource: The War Against Population: The Economics & Ideology of Population Control by Julian Simon
Eugenics is a social movement that supports the supposed improvement of the human population via selective breeding and other means. It was originally developed by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, and based upon Darwin’s theory of evolution. Eugenics was practiced openly in the early decades of the 20th century in many countries, including the United States. After WWII, eugenics by that name fell into disfavor when the extent of Nazi atrocities became known. Eugenicists advocate genetic screening, birth control, segregation, transhumanism, euthanasia, compulsory sterilization, forced pregnancies, and abortion.
Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider. Sanger was also a proponent of eugenics who railed against the “reckless breeding” of the “unfit.” In her book Woman and the New Race, she wrote, “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it” (Chapter V, “The Wickedness of Creating Large Families,” 1920). She desired “to breed a race of human thoroughbreds” and would rather a society “produce a thousand thoroughbreds than a million runts” (Radio WFAB Syracuse, February 29, 1924, transcripted in “The Meaning of Radio Birth Control,” April 1924, p. 111).
From its founding, Planned Parenthood has been involved with eugenics. In 1932 the organization received the endorsement of the American Eugenics Society. To this day, Planned Parenthood is targeting those whom Sanger and other eugenicists would call “unfit.” Their 1997 publication Plan of Action stated their “core clients” are “young women, low-income women, and women of color.”
The Bible does not specifically mention eugenics, but the idea behind eugenics—that man can better himself by ridding the world of “undesirable” people—is definitely not biblical. God told mankind to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28; 9:1, 7). No exception to that command is given in Scripture. In fact, King Solomon wrote in Psalm 127:3–5 that children are a heritage from the Lord and that the fruit of the womb is a reward from Him.
God gives us life and numbers our days (Job 33:4; 14:5). The sovereign Lord determines whether we live or die. For social engineers to usurp God’s authority in order to create a self-defined “master race” is evil. We are to obey God, not men (Acts 5:29).
English theologian G. K. Chesterton wrote in his 1922 book Eugenics and Other Evils, “There is no reason in Eugenics, but there is plenty of motive. Its supporters are highly vague about its theory, but they will be painfully practical about its practice” (from Chapter VIII, “A Summary of a False Theory”).
Eugenics is a meritless and immoral social engineering experiment with dubious chances for “success,” as defined by its supporters. It is a slippery slope in which Chesterton’s scientific madmen abrogate the authority of God and seek to create their own utopia on Earth. Through abortion and euthanasia, eugenics is simply murder. Job 24:14 says, “When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.” This is the role of eugenicist: killing the poor and needy and those he deems “unworthy”; preventing a “poor quality of life” (in his estimation) by taking life; denying men’s liberty; and playing God.
“As he went along, [Jesus] saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him’” (John 9:1–3). Who are we to decide who does or does not display the works of God? The Bible tells us to defend the weak (Matthew 25:35–36; Acts 20:35), not to kill them.
Recommended Resource: The War Against Population: The Economics & Ideology of Population Control by Julian Simon
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Now I share some historical record.
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Charles Darwin wrote “With savages, the weak in
body or mind are soon eliminated. … We civilized men, on the other hand, do our
utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile,
the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws, and our medical men exert
their utmost skill to save every one until the last moment. There is reason to
believe that vaccination has preserved thousands who from a weak constitution
would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilized
societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended the breeding of
domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of
man.”
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In 1885 the early (USA) founders of the American
Economic Association (AEA) argued that the needs of the state exceeds
individual liberty.
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Frank Taussig, Harvard economics professor, past
president of AEA (1904), at the time one of president Woodrow Wilson’s
advisors, believed the minimum wage would cull out “the feeble-minded … those
saturated with alcohol or tainted with hereditary disease … [and} he irretrievable
CRIMINALS AND TRAMPS. … We have not reached the stage where we can proceed to
chloroform them once and for all; but at least they can be segregated, shut up
in refuges and asylums, and prevented from propagating their kind.”
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William Ripley. Elected AEA president in 1913,
was one of eugenicists with hope of restricting immigration, especially those
from the “great Polish swamp of miserable human beings”.
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Later AEA presidents held to and propagated eugenic
economic beliefs.
(Source: WORLD magazine 3/18/17,
History and Ideology, Marvin Olasky , page 34.)
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Our USA culture
is not beyond eugenics. One of the inherent risks of believing in Darwinist
evolution is that at some level, violent or tacit, supporting eugenics.
Understanding,
believing, and supporting the truth that God created us in His image and that
we are not to shed innocent blood may not be pleasing to man, but is always
pleasing to God. (Gen.1:27; 9:6; Rom.12:1-3)
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