Nancy Pearcey Quote
As students, we took all of this for granted, like oxygen in a lecture hall, and we heaped harsh judgment on the Christian West, John recalled. But we rarely asked, ‘Compared to what?’ The ‘what’ was always some form of utopian ideal. But utopian ideals have not fared so well. In the twentieth century, secular utopian idealists presided over the extermination of a hundred million people, killed for ‘a higher good’ by the apostles of Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche. History has never produced a more efficient set of butchers.
Nancy Pearcey
As students, we took all of this for granted, like oxygen in a lecture hall, and we heaped harsh judgment on the Christian West, John recalled. But we rarely asked, ‘Compared to what?’ The ‘what’ was always some form of utopian ideal. But utopian ideals have not fared so well. In the twentieth century, secular utopian idealists presided over the extermination of a hundred million people, killed for ‘a higher good’ by the apostles of Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche. History has never produced a more efficient set of butchers.
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About Nancy Pearcey
Nancy Randolph Pearcey (born 1952) is an American evangelical author known for her writings on Intelligent design and Christian worldview theory.