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| C.S. Lewis |
In 1943, C.S. Lewis wrote a book with the same title as this post. In that year, the second world war was in full swing, but the book is not about the war, but about more fundamental questions, such as the moral degradation of man, which was then quite advanced and is worse today. This is how Lewis explains this degradation:
Let us regard all ideas of what we ought to do simply as an interesting psychological survival: let us step right out of all that and start doing what we like. Let us decide for ourselves what man is to be and make him into that: not on any ground of imagined value, but because we want him to be such. Having mastered our environment, let us now master ourselves and choose our own destiny.
Only five years later, it seemed that man
was not going to fall into this trap. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations
promulgated the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, which stated a series of moral imperatives
that must be fulfilled, just because man is man.
Three quarters of a century later, several of those articles are not being fulfilled,
and the abolition of man seems closer to take place:
Article 3: Everyone has
the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Except for unborn children (abortion),
some of those already born (infanticide), as well as elderly people who are
euthanized without their consent.
Article 11.1: Everyone
charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved
guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees
necessary for his defence.
The media, political parties and members
of parliaments, have put an end to the presumption of innocence in many Western
countries.
Article
18: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this
right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either
alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his
religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
In Spain, an article has been added to the
Penal Code that will send to jail those who pray in front of abortion centers. This
is the last point in the article: In the prosecution
of the facts described in this article, the complaint of the aggrieved person
or their legal representation will not be necessary. The freedom
of conscience of health personnel is also undermined by pressuring them to
perform abortions and euthanasia.
Article 19: Everyone has
the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to
hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information
and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Tell this to those who disagree with the
dominant ideology and dare to express their opinion on social networks. The
least that will happen is that their account will be closed. Some
are even taken to court.
Article 26.3: Parents
have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their
children.
When presenting the new education law of
the Spanish social-communist government, and in the face of the protests of
many parents due to the ideological indoctrination to which this law subjects
their children, the then Minister of Education said this: Children do not belong to their parents.
It cannot be said more clearly: for this government, article 26.3 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not exist. In the book we are
discussing, Lewis had foreseen it:
[T]he difference between the old and the new education will be
an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'… In a
word, the old was a kind of propagation—men transmitting manhood to men; the
new is merely propaganda… We laugh at honour and
are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be
fruitful.
Article 30: Nothing in this
Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any
right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction
of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
Despite this article, the governments of
many Western countries knowingly violate several articles every day, turning
the Declaration into dead paper, and nothing happens. This is done, despite the
fact that several assertions of the dominant ideology are
directly opposed to science. What has become of human rights, democracy,
and respect for science and reason? C.S. Lewis saw it clearly in 1943:
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as
we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please.
How long are we going to let human rights
be violated? Will we allow the abolition of man to be consummated?
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