Woman Drowns Her 5 Children
Lessening the Value of Human Life

I started feeling ill as the details of the recent news surfaced outlining one Houston mother's grisly, heinous murder spree that consisted of drowning her 5 children in the family bathtub. The news report I was listening to went on to describe the murderer's need to chase the oldest child around the house before she could conclude her horrible, inhuman and disgusting rampage. What almost made me as ill was the news report's apparent attempt to excuse the child abusing, mass murderer's actions. Not too long before this another mother burned several of her children to death and attempted to kill herself in the process. She was admitted to a mental institution instead of an execution chamber. Perhaps the mother who killed her 5 children heard about that and was encouraged to perform her terrible acts. Awhile back in Phoenix a man dowsed his toddler with gasoline and lit her on fire. She died a horrible and agonizing death. It is claimed the man was on drugs. He may actually get what's coming to him but he won't get what he gave the innocent child he tortured.

Let me say this as clear as I can: there are no excuses for such actions. None. I don't care what you are on or how crazy you think you are, there is no excuse for taking the lives of these innocent children. These children should be assured some measure of safety in the presence of their own parents. Why didn't these "parents" attempt to burn or drown someone who could defend themselves? What cowards these people are! They knew what they were doing. They planned it and carried it out and watched without lifting a finger to comfort the ones that counted on them, above all people in the world, for comfort.

Has society reached a point where anything goes and anything is acceptable? Why are crimes against children more acceptable and more easily explained away than other crimes of heinous murder? Why have we put such a low price on human life in general? How did we get to this point?

I feel ill when I think about the horrible and heinous acts that go on every day in America with the full sanction of law. These acts are even encouraged and considered "compassionate," which is enough to make a truly compassionate person cringe. There are even those who make a living and base their political, scientific and "moral" philosophy on committing such crimes against humanity and against God. Life is cheap because they make it cheap. Every day in America and around the world people are encouraged to cheapen life in their minds and actions in two ways: people are told that taking the life of a child who is one day from being born is somehow different than taking the life of a child who is one day old and, people are told they are only animals and their lives have no importance beyond that.

How is taking the life of a child who is one day from being born different from taking the life of a child who is one day old? The dependence on the mother is the same. The level of development is the same. The humanity of the child is the same. There is no difference. Well, if there's no difference, what's the difference between a child one day from being born and two days from being born? What about three days? Or four days? Or five? Or a week? Or two weeks? Or a month? You can keep backing it up and you do start to have a different level of physical development but there is no logical reason to conclude any difference in humanity. Children born with birth defects, mental or physical, are no less human than a child born perfectly normal. So one cannot locally appeal to mental ability or physical development. One cannot appeal to dependence because a newborn would die without extreme attention and care. One cannot appeal to the humanity of the child. After all, what is the child if not human? Is a child a chicken that develops into a human? Of course not. The child is human the entire process and looks fully human very early on (as one who has seen a 16 week old "fetus" because of miscarriage, I can testify that everything is there -- arms, legs, hands, feet, head, nose, etc. -- a miniature version of a newborn). Perhaps the low value put on human life we are seeing in society is a result of the wholesale killing of the most innocent of all, the unborn.

Why in the world should we worry about murder, rape, racism and bigotry if we are only animals per evolutionary theory? These things are obviously wrong but not if you have an evolutionary worldview. Survival of the fittest goes directly against defending the innocent. Some would try to argue the point but there is nothing wrong about the strong taking advantage of the weak in an evolutionary worldview. In fact, there are no moral laws, no right or wrong, outside of the existence of a moral lawgiver. If we are only animals, anything goes. The problem is, most everyone has a sense of right and wrong. It's built into our very being. The value we put on human life is tied to what we believe about ourselves. If we are animals with no purpose, our society is bound to get only worse. What's next? Should society rid itself of the old, sick and those with physical and mental limitations? If we were created in the imagine of God and matter to the creator of the universe, then our society needs to stop the downward spiral and aspire to be what we were made for. What's next? A society that cares for the old, sick and those with physical and mental limitations. If we realize our importance to the creator of the entire universe, there will be no more murder, rape, racism or bigotry.

Inside the World Wide Christian Web, you will find answers to your questions and additional support for the statements I've made in this editorial. You will find that the theory of evolution does not stand up against close scientific scrutiny. More importantly, you will find out more about the creator of the universe and the concern and love he has for you personally.

Mark Harpt
Editor
e-mail: wwcw@wwcw.org

I want to learn more about how I can have a relationship with the creator of the universe.

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