Tuesday 7 April 2009

Peter Singer: Free Market Homicide

Why Peter Singer Makes the New Atheists Nervous

The following quotation is taken from a recent issue of Christianity Today. It was written by Dinesh D'Souza
Some of Singer's critics have called him a Nazi and compared his proposals to Hitler's schemes for eliminating those perceived as unwanted and unfit. A careful reading of his work, however, shows that Singer is no Hitler. He doesn't want state-sponsored killings. Rather, he wants the decision to kill to be made by private individuals like you and me. Instead of government-conducted genocide, Singer favors free-market homicide.

Why haven't the atheists embraced Peter Singer? I suspect it is because they fear that his unpalatable views will discredit the cause of atheism. What they haven't considered, however, is whether Singer, virtually alone among their numbers, is uncompromisingly working out the implications of living in a truly secular society, one completely purged of Christian and transcendental foundations. In Singer, we may be witnessing someone both horrifying and yet somehow refreshing: an intellectually honest atheist.
Read the full piece here.

Dinesh D'Souza, a former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, is author of What's So Great About Christianity and other books.

1 comment:

ZenTiger said...

The atheists may not have embraced him, but the MSM have.

The DomPost regularly carries his opinion pieces. Interestingly, he always gets a picture by his piece, sometimes up to the same column inches in size as the article.

There's no doubt they are priming him for leading the debate.