AUGUST 6 AND AUGUST 9 mark the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which brought a sudden end to World War II.
We might have expected that such expressions of man’s inhumanity to man ultimately might have conferred upon our societies the wisdom to truly value life and liberty.
Unfortunately, in the years following World War II, after the collapse of Nazism, the West voluntarily succumbed to a new dictatorship of relativism that is no less evil than the fascism that preceded it.
We have seen the results – the nihilistic yet impeccably democratic legislation that repudiates life itself!
I am thinking here of existing, enacted and pending articles of legislation that make legal various drugs, prostitution, contraception, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, abortion, euthanasia, and genetic manipulation.
PAUL KOKOSKI