From the left environmentalists, we get the voluntary human extinction movement. From the religious right, we get the involuntarily human death movement.
Left:
The two are superficial enemies culturally, yet both are anti-humanist philosophically.
For human beings, life is the standard of value; and for healthy humans, life is good. True lovers of humanity affirm the awesome adventure, beauty, and nobility that life on Earth (and beyond) affords.
Where are the genuine humanists?
“Where are the genuine humanists?”
I think we’re hiding…
Most of the human beings that lived never saw one bit of the “awesome adventure, beauty, and nobility that life on Earth (and beyond) affords.”
“For Christians, dying from COVID (or anything else) is a good thing”?
One would think the writer of that had never met a Christian. Certainly he shows has no real knowledge of actual Christian thinking about death. Christians are no lovers of death.
The Bible calls death an “enemy,” and speaks of it being “destroyed.” The goal of Christianity is eternal life, not of death. True, Paul says, “For me to live is Christ, to die is gain.” But to emphasize the second clause as if the first didn’t exist would be a serious distortion of the point. The point is rather that the Christian need not fear death, because if that’s what it costs for him to remain true to the faith, then it’s not a defeat but a victory. As it says, “O grave, where is your victory; O death, where is your sting?”
So the above is a rather grotesque misrepresentation of Christianity, not at all an exposition of it.