Response to Richard Dawkins

Is murder morally good? Has society fallen so far to accept murder as a common and perfectly allowable act? Apparently Richard Dawkins has. On August 20 a twitter user tweeted that she didn't know what she would do if she was pregnant with a down syndrome baby. In response Richard Dawkins tweeted "Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice." (Richard Dawkins). As expected, twitter erupted into controversy on August 20, some with Dawkins and some not. 

You see Richard Dawkins might be saying that he believes that Down Syndrome babies should be aborted but where is he really drawing the line? If he is supporting aborting Down Syndrome babies what about those that will some day get Parkinson's disease? Alzheimer's? What does he think about these? I guess he is saying that if you want your baby to have brown eyes but its born with blue eyes you should abort it. "You have no right to judge me" some may say. This may be true but you better believe that my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has every right in the world to judge you. Get ready you who support abortion. Because you will be judged. Richard Dawkins believes that it is immoral not to abort Down Syndrome babies because "if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down baby,". (Dawkins) So lets legally kill some babies that may have an immeasurable impact on human society, graduate at the top of their class at Stanford, that may become a millionaire someday, that may become president someday all in the name of happiness. Good job Dawkins, your level of intellect is astounding, I don't know if I've heard anything that stupid before. Oh and as happiness goes people with down syndrome are some of the happiest people in the world. In fact an anonymous person commented on Dawkins stand on abortion by saying "I care for 3 adults with Downs Syndrome, and I can assure you that my life certainly isn't "marred". Quite the opposite, in fact. Since I've worked with disabled adults, my life has been immeasurably enhanced."
This person then went on to criticize Dawkins of his stand and call him out on his ignorance of the subject.  

It is at this part of the program that some may encourage you, the reader, to form your own opinion on this matter. But I will not. People this is wrong I don't see how some people cannot see this, What Richard Dawkins is doing is bad, how long will it take the people of America to realize that? Stop justifying the causes for abortion because it is not right, do you realize that the baby that is aborted will never have a say in anything? Something better change because if you look at the birth rate in America, you'll see that There aren't enough babies being born to balance out the older generation's deaths. And if this trend continues, you can bet that there will be no more America.

The United States is full of issues, there is no doubt about that, everyone thinks they know the answer to everything and that their way is the best way, while I fully support people coming up with their own ideas, there are some topics that get ignored too often. One of these topics is the separation of church and state. From the very conception of our nation Christianity has been there, although some of the founding fathers were not Christians, they supported the ideals of Christianity and sought to keep Christian principles in order. Take Thomas Jefferson for example, he was not a Christian,
however that is old news what is relevant is even though he wasn't a Christian he sought to keep Government out of governing religion. On October 7, 1801 the Danbury Baptists wrote Thomas Jefferson expressing their affirmation of Jefferson being elected president, however along with their excitement they wrote concerning the freedom of religion stated in the first amendment. This was also Thomas Jefferson's fear, he actually wrote many documents proclaiming the inability of the Federal Government to interfere with religion. Jefferson believed that God, not government, was the authorandsource of our rights and that the government, was to be prevented from interfering
with those rights.


For nearly 190 years after the founding of our nation, Bible readings in schools were permitted, everything changed in 1963. After 1963 Bible readings in schools were not allowed, speaking of God in public schools was not allowed. Even the ten commandments that hung from the walls of schools were scarcely allowed, and if the child read the ten commandments for any other purpose than to just practice reading, that would be deemed unconstitutional. Unconstitutional? things such as do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not lie, do not steal, deemed unconstitutional. After 1963 when bible reading were stopped, crime rates skyrocketed and the generation that graduated high school were deemed the first that "did not know more than their parents".


This happened back in 1963, where will the United States be in 2063? I'm no smart person but I don't really want to know. It is up to the people of this generation to decide which path to take, either reject God and fall like the Roman empire, or reaccept God and begin to rebuild what has been destroyed.