The mundane face of Evil
The man above (standing in front of the bookcase) is Professor Peter singer, the man who preaches infanticide, who teaches that if it suits their doctors or guardians, infants can be regarded as less than animals.
When the Nazis began the large scale extermination of the Jews, Heinrich Himmler (who himself was made physically sick by the things his men did) famously gave a speech to those of his SS troops who were then tasked with those abominable deeds, telling them they must suppress their natural human responses to what they were about to do — their feelings of horror and revulsion — because Reason demanded that the Jews must be exterminated.
The Iblis Pill
Among those who died in the camps were Professor Singer’s grandparents.
And yet the lesson the Professor Singer has taken from the Nazi Holocaust is not that the post-Christian, secular, atheist, materialist West had lost its soul, but that the West was not post-Christian enough, that there was still too much human emotion ruling our affairs, indeed that it was emotion itself that caused the Holocaust.
That Reason would save us. The same Reason that had marched us through the slave trade, the French Revolution, Marxism, the Gulag, Eugenics, Nazism, the Final Solution, the Killing Fields…
We had spent our 400 years in the wilderness. This time, Reason would lead us to the promised land.
Evil begets evil, perhaps the pain of such a personal loss — and such a profound loss of power — has produced a man with the overpowering desire to possess that power.
But no, the truth is that the highly intelligent are so often the greatest fools, the most easily seduced. He’s just a stupid man, in love with his own brilliance, who’s taken the Iblis Pill.
