Friday 23 January 2009

Truth?

Whats is Truth? Most people would agree that Truth is a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like.

However society increasingly seems to be embracing the idea that there is such a thing as relative Truth, that everyone can have their own individual Truths so whats true for you may not be true for me.

If you say that what someone believes cannot be true then you are branded as intolerant. Surely true tolerance is accepting that we all believe contrasting things which cannot possibly all be correct and discussing them rationally in an attempt to ascertain the truth.

For example Christianity and Islam cannot possibly both be true. Some people would say that they are both different ways of getting to the same god. However if you look at Christianity and Islam their Gods are so fundamentally different that they cannot possible be the same.

Any thoughts?

Tuesday 20 January 2009

Hunter...

I've just watched Hunter, a two part special about the kidnapping of two boys. The program broached the subject of abortion from a very interesting perspective. Two mothers, who have both had abortions in the past, have their sons kidnapped by an pro-life (anti-abortion) group called Sacred. They say that unless their graphic anti-abortion video is shown on all the BBC news broadcasts they will terminate the lives of these two boys by lethal injection.

This creates a very interesting and (one would hope) fairly improbable paradox. If these people truely believed in the absolute sanctity of life, as they claim they do, then their is absolutely no chance that they would even consider killing these boys. Yet they do. So they are themselves using the same means as those they are opposing to get their message across, effective maybe but utterly hypocritical.

Still the program highlights something which society today seems completely oblivious and uncorncerned about. Abortion. Pro-choice supporters argue that it is the mothers right to choose. Yet surely in 99% of cases the mother has already made the choice by having sex. The easily access to abortion is creating a society of irresponsible people with no real regard for the true value and sanctity of life.
My mother has no right at all to terminate my life now, and I am no more human now than I was in the womb. Yet somehow it is deemed to be perfectly acceptable to kill these unborn children. Many comparisons could and have been made to the attrocities of the holocaust. The only difference is that most of the murders going on now are pre-birth murders and the numbers of those killed has already eclipsed the numbers who where killed in the holocaust.

People will understandably argue about the dangers of back street abortion clinics and victims of rape, yet lets think about it for a minute. how many mothers died from botched jobs in back street abortion clinics? Significantly less than the 200,000 children aborted a year in the UK. Abortion seems to be handed out like free condoms, if you want an abortion you can have one. You don't need a real reason anymore.

Why does nobody care?