Child sacrifice on the altar of scientism

I once heard two philosophers debating. One an atheist, one a man of faith. (This isn’t a joke.) 

Sam Harris (for he was the atheist) mocked the believer by pointing out that the Bible contains the barbarous act of child-sacrifice. Jordan B Peterson (for he was the believer) responded by wondering how often, in those brutish and archaic times, it might have been necessary to make that terrible sacrifice for the survival of the tribe or some other good. 

I remember listening and being very thankful that we live in a time when such terrible moral dilemmas are never presented to us. We exist in a world so luxurious that child-sacrifice could only ever be considered an act of utter evil. No modern problem could necessitate such a dreadful and disturbing strategy. 

That was 2019. 

We now live in a world where child sacrifice has become so normal that anyone even questioning it is deemed to be callous and anti-social.

No child-sacrifice is too great in order to protect us all from a virus – a virus that would be extremely difficult to detect were it not for modern medical apparatus and a Western population that enjoys longevity far greater than anything since those long-lived ancients of the Old Testament. 

For the sake of today’s ancient ones, and a small proportion of already vulnerable souls (many of whom are obese adults), we lock all our children inside – for weeks and month on end. We stop them from hugging their relatives. We stop them from playing with their friends. We stop them from developing socially, and understanding what it is to be part of a supportive community. In all but the narrow medical sense, we stop them from living. We have sacrificed the childhood of millions of children. That’s how caring a society we are. 

And while it seemed unnatural to every parent, they complied, because they were told to do it – not by God, but by “the Science.”

This was not Science as in the “scientific method” – that objective process that has brought wealth, health and prosperity to the world, to such an extent as to make moral dilemmas virtually obsolete. This is Science as a cult, with leaders and heretics, with mystical beliefs in simplistic computerised models, and followers and fanatics that will excuse any evil in pursuit of the greater good. It is not, in fact, science at all, but a kind of naïve rationalism that has been termed scientism. It is to science what dogma is to religion: the veneration of form over substance. 

But this is no mere metaphor.

Our leaders, led by Scientism, seek to pierce the flesh, and inoculate our children against something that poses them no threat if they catch it today, but may pose them a threat if they don’t build natural immunity in the long-run. Meanwhile, the experimental treatments themselves (colloquial called ‘vaccines’) have proven extremely harmful to a small proportion of children, and risk compromising their immune systems over time.

While there is no advantage and only downside for the child, the surprising thing is that there is no clear advantage for anyone. Like religious sacrifices, the rationale for this particular child sacrifice is not tangible or earthly (since the vaccines are not designed to prevent transmission, and may very well do the reverse.) It is a symbol, a sign of commitment to the cause. Through their sacrifice, we will be socially cleansed.  

I will not cite here the numbers of injuries, casualties or deaths in children that have arisen already as a result of these experiments. Either you are willing to sacrifice children, or you are not. And if you are, then no statistic is likely to stay your hand. No account of tragedy, however thin or thick the volume may be, will be heard or believed by the fanatics of Scientism. 

But it is not just a matter of opinion – it just seems that way when viewed in the abstract. Unlike science, which seeks universal truths, moral decisions are always context-specific. So look at your own life. Would you sacrifice your own child to save their grandparent, or anyone else’s aged or vulnerable relative, from Covid-19? More than that, would you sacrifice them just to show you care about the issue, regardless of whether it will actually make a difference?

If the answer is no, then help us expose this deluded cult of Scientism for what it is – a threat to children, to hope and to the future.  

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