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In line with this twisted mentality, one who attaches no

value to human life is the American professor E. A. Ross.
According to Ross's Social Darwinist view: "The Christian cult
of charity as a means of grace has formed a shelter under which
idiots and cretins have crept and bred." Again according to Ross:
"The state gathers the deaf mutes into its sheltering arm, and a
race of deaf mutes is in process of formation." Since these actions
obstruct so-called natural evolutionary development, he de-
clared that the shortest way to better this world was to leave all
such people on their own to be eventually eliminated through

natural selection. 176
What a ruthless view this is! Man is possessed of a con-
science, and conscience commands one to protect the weak, the
down-and-out and the poor. Otherwise, if man loses his ability

The graph below shows the enor-
mous rise in crime levels over the
last 30 years. The more societies
distance themselves from religious
moral values, the greater the ensu-
ing moral collapse and crime levels.

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