Abstract from "After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?" by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva
“... the autistic or Down syndrome or otherwise
disabled child, for instance, for whom the world can remain a perpetual
perplexity, which can too often cause pain but perhaps only vaguely and
fleetingly charm or delight; the derelict or wretched or broken man or woman
who has wasted his or her life away; the homeless, the utterly impoverished,
the diseased, the mentally ill, the physically disabled; exiles, refugees,
fugitives; even criminals and reprobates. To reject, turn away from, or kill
any or all of them would be, in a very real sense, the most purely practical of
impulses. To be able, however , to see in them not only something of worth but
indeed something potentially godlike, to be cherished and adored, is the rarest
and most ennoblingly unrealistic capacity ever bred within human souls.
David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian
Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies
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