How can the church elevate the value of life in a culture seemingly set on devaluing it?
Colson: The problem is that the value system of the secular worldview is fundamentally pragmatic: “What works is good.” It is also radically individualistic: your task is to find, and my task is to teach you the process by which you can find your own values. This type of process will never elevate the dignity of anything. The thing that made Jefferson such a towering figure in history is what he wrote in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” That is, they are true because they are true, not because someone says they are true. The secular world, however, doesn t believe anything is true unless someone says it is true; then they are basically positive of it. Until we can show how that particular worldview system fails to produce either a rational or a moral order, they can never see the dignity of life. We can t elevate the dignity of life when life is merely a preference, and living or dying becomes a matter of choice. If choice is the ultimate virt
