Wed Jun 7, 2023 – 4:48 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — On this week’s solo episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon considers questions as to whether or not Western society will accept infanticide.
Jonathon examines the question in light of a waning “Judeo-Christian culture,” observing that “we are seeing evidence that the sanctity of human life was harnessed to our Judeo-Christian heritage,” and that as cultural values become divorced from our Judeo-Christian heritage, “those values begin to slip.”
While examining the arguments of various philosophers and academics on the subject, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Psychologist Steven Pinker, University of Chicago philosopher Dr. Jerry Coyne, and Peter Singer, a bioethicist at Princeton University, all of whom support infanticide, Jonathon notes that Coyne and Singer both agree that “religious superstition” is blocking the passage of pro-infanticide laws.
In Coyne’s case, he explicitly argued that the “residual effects of Christianity were holding Western civilization back,” specifically through Christian ethics, Jonathon notes.
Throughout the episode, Jonathon gives further examples that could shed light on the question, including a three-year-old Belgian study which found that most Belgian health care workers favored infanticide under certain circumstances, the backlash a Canadian
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