Wesley Smith on Peter Singer
June 10, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 14 Comments
From First Thoughts by Wesley J. Smith: Peter Singer Sympathetic to Human Extinction as Way of Avoiding Suffering Peter Singer blogs at the New York Times about a new book (Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence, by David Benetar) that apparently advocates human extinction as a way of preventing human [...]
A unified Orthodox Church can speak with clarity…
May 23, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · Leave a Comment
Read below and you’ll see one reason why we need a unified Orthodox Church in America. Wesley J. Smith, human rights activist and occasional contributor to AOI Observer, warns about a bill winding through congress that will surreptitiously fund human cloning. We could have something to say about that. A friend of mine, an Orthodox [...]
Wesley J. Smith: At what cost?
March 25, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 51 Comments
To the Source Obamacare is now the law of the land. Because health care and wellness are such essential parts of our lives and our culture, America will never be the same. For now, Obamacare preserves a private financing system—no public option. Nonetheless, it still represents a government takeover of healthcare. By eliminating risk assessment–and [...]
Podcast: The Animal Rights Movement from an Orthodox perspective
March 13, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 5 Comments
Human exceptionalism advocate and author Wesley J. Smith speaks with host Kevin Allen about the animal rights-animal liberation movement and its insistence on the “moral equivalence” between animals and humans! How does this compare with Orthodox teachings about the “brotherhood” of humans, animals and inanimate nature (St Gregory Palamas)? Listen and find out ! Listen [...]
Wesley J. Smith: Unless we all matter
February 15, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 1 Comment
The Source “God loves each of us, as if there were only one of us.” – St. Augustine. If you want to accurately predict what could soon go wrong in society, just read the professional journals. Case in point: A bioethicist named Alasdair Cochrane, a deep thinker at the Centre for the Study of Human [...]
Wesley J. Smith interviewed on National Review Online
January 19, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · Leave a Comment
Wesley J. Smith, noted author on human rights and occasional commentator on the AOI Blog was interviewed on National Review Online on his upcoming book, A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. Smith discusses the difference between animal rights and animal welfare, human [...]
Knocking Human Beings Off the Pedestal of Exceptionalism
November 11, 2009 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · Leave a Comment
Occasional commentator to AOI blog and human rights activist Wesley J. Smith warns in a recent article that, “society’s belief in the unique moral value and importance of human life is under unprecedented assault…Most people still believe in human exceptionalism and are unaware that powerful social and cultural forces are working diligently to dismantle the [...]
Keep the Human in Humane
April 30, 2009 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · Leave a Comment
Wesley Smith, occasional commentator on AOI blog published the is article on To the Source. Visit Smith’s blog Second Hand Smoke. When Aldous Huxley wrote his prophetic 1932 novel Brave New World, he envisioned a dystopian future in which mankind would become, in the words of bioethicist Leon Kass, “so dehumanized that he doesn’t even [...]
Wesley J. Smith: Orthodox Advocate for Human “Exceptionalism”
April 6, 2009 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 1 Comment
Our culture is at a crossroad about the value of human life, argues author and human rights activist Wesley J. Smith in an interview with Kevin Allen on the “Illumined Heart” podcast (Ancient Faith Radio). Do we value human life simply because it is human, or do we value it based on notions and definitions [...]
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