Our Threatened Freedom

Are You a Human Being

Professor: Dr. R.J. Rushdoony

Subject: Political Studies

Lesson: 34-169

Genre: Conversation

Track: 034

Dictation Name: Vol. C - Part 08 – Are You a Human Being

Location/Venue: Unknown

Year: 1980’s – 1990’s

[Dr. Rushdoony] Are you a human being? This is R.J. Rushdoony with a report on our threatened freedom.

The question, are you a human being, may sound facetious and trifling, but it is less so when we read what some scientists are saying. Thus the Nobel laureate, Sir. Frances Crick has said, “No new-born baby should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowments. And if it fails these tests, it forfeits the right to live.” Unquote.

Another Nobel Laureate, Linus Pauling, wants to see every person’s genotype tattooed on their forehead.

Now if you and I ever make statements, even remotely approaching these in their moral madness, we would be shunned by all sensible people. However, when Nobel Prize winners make them, they get published, and serious attention is given to their absurd remarks.

In all of this and more, a monstrous evil is apparent. These scientists see man as simply another laboratory animal, another guinea pig for experimentation.

As a matter of fact, human beings are used for experimentation, especially mental patients and some still living aborted babies. Think about it.

If scientists can be so callus toward human beings, why should we expect more from street hoodlums, muggers, and criminals? Why should a contempt for human life be morally wrong in a criminal, and legitimate in a scientist?

If something is legitimate for people at the top in any society, you can be sure that it will soon be practiced at the bottom.

The sad fact about this fallen world is that sickness is contagious in most cases, but good health is not. A man can catch a cold, the flu, and a variety of diseases from people around him, but he cannot catch good health.

The same is true of evil principles and standards. They are highly contagious, because man is by nature given to evil, and he has a natural affinity to it.

In the days coming, when Sir Francis Cricks hope will be realized and none of us will be declared human unless a scientific committee tells us that we qualify. Is that day coming? The answer to that question is very clearly, yes. That day is coming, as long we continue our present course. Not until we return to a biblical faith can we arrest that trend. If we do not believe that man is created in the image of God, and solely to be governed by God’s Law Word, than nothing can prevent our lives from being expendable. Then we are a human being only if some scientist says so.

The fact is that we are not the creatures of science, and the scientists, but the creatures of Almighty God. He made us, and He governs us. He defines us, and no man has the right to challenge His definition. If men dare to challenge God’s definition of men, they will pay a price for it. No man has the right to deny the status of man to any other human being. It is God given.

This R.J. Rushdoony with a report on our threatened freedoms.