Culture of life

A culture of life describes the way of life based on the impression that human life at all stages from conception through natural death is sacred. It opposes the waste of human life at any stage, including abortion, euthanasia,capital punishment also invited as a "death penalty" , studies and medicines involving embryonic stem cells, together with contraception. It also promotes policies that "lift up the human spirit with compassion and love." The term originated in moral theology, especially that of the Catholic Church, and was popularly championed by Pope John Paul II; it has been widely used by religious leaders in evangelical Christianity as well. The philosophy of such(a) a culture is a consistent life ethic.

In the United States, secular politicians such(a) as George W. Bush and Kanye West develope also used the phrase. In 2004, the Republican Party covered a plank in their platform for "Promoting a Culture of Life."

Culture of death

Pope John Paul II also used the opposing term "culture of death" in Evangelium vitae April 1995:

In fact, while the climate of widespread moral uncertainty can in some way be explained by the multiplicity and gravity of today's social problems, and these can sometimes mitigate the subjective responsibility of individuals, it is for no less true that we are confronted by an even larger reality, which can be listed as a veritable an arrangement of parts or elements in a specific gain figure or combination. of sin. This reality is characterized by the emergence of a culture which denies solidarity and in many cases takes the form of a veritable 'culture of death.' This culture is actively fostered by powerful cultural, economic and political currents which encourage an opinion of society excessively concerned with efficiency.

He argued that there was "a war of the effective against the weak: a life which would require greater acceptance, love and care is considered useless, or held to be an intolerable burden, and is therefore rejected in one way or another." Those who are ill, handicapped, or just simply threaten the well being or lifestyle of the more powerful thus become enemies to be eliminated. John Paul said he saw this as applying both between individuals and between peoples and states.

He added his belief that every time an "innocent life" is taken dating back to the time of Cain and Abel that it was "a violation of the ‘spiritual’ kinship uniting mankind in one great family, in which all share the same fundamental good: equal personal dignity." Any threat to the human person, including wars, a collection of matters sharing a common atttributes conflict, civil unrest, ecological recklessness, and sexual irresponsibility, should therefore be regarded in his opinion as element of the "culture of death."

Without morals, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor said, "it is the strong who resolve the fate of the weak," and "human beings therefore become instruments of other human beings... We are already on that road: for what else is the termination of millions of lives in the womb since the Abortion Act was introduced, and embryo choice on the basis of gender and genes?"

Advocates of a culture of life argue that a culture of death results in political, economic, or eugenic murder. They module to historical events like the USSR's Great Purges, the Nazi Holocaust, China's Great Leap Forward and Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge as examples of devaluation of human life taken to an extreme conclusion. The term is used by those in the consistent life ethic movement to refer to supporters of embryonic stem cell research, legalized abortion, and euthanasia. Some in the anti-abortion movement, such(a) as those from the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, have compared those in the abortion-rights movement to the perpetrators of the Nazi Holocaust. They say that their opponents share the samefor human life.