Paper: Culture of
Playing God as Culture of Death: Women Genius as Compassionate Remedy
Abstract
We are living in
a postmodern society, manufactured by postmodern man/woman, which is a
liberal-radical democratic society (LRDS), which has its supreme value, namely,
personal autonomy to choose ways of life without any objective ethical
foundation and with ethical relativism. Members of this society are required also
to tolerate the personal worldview and value system of the other so long as
they do not infringe upon one’s own or others’ freedom. LRDS demands that
legislation should put forth ethical positions without any determinate
acceptance of a set of objective values or a morality based on human person. In
this context, LRDS with its personal autonomy plays god for a culture of death by
manipulating women to choose their reproductive rights that involves many
inhuman and unethical practices: choosing contraceptives with the intention of
killing the children right from the moment of conception; choosing abortive
methods to put an end to life which is already conceived; choosing preimplantation
genetic and prenatal tests to screen the embryos with malformation and thus to
kill them if malformed; and choosing new artificial reproductive technologies
to produce or manufacture babies and to make use of poor women as surrogate
mothers. Playing god as culture of death enables women to make their own sexual
life-choices to have babies at any cost and teaches that human procreation is
not an inherent structure of family and marriage and is reducible to object or
function. In this context, the paper presents how this society for its many unethical
practices should be overturned by the respect of women genius so as to make
choices of life and not of death; how the Church, the healing community, should
behold the reality of women genius with the eyes of God who is a God of life
and not of death; how women genius can become compassionate remedy against many
inhuman and unethical practices, participating in the God’s compassionate mercy
as women is the secret of God, who should never be manipulated.
William Eronimoose MI, Director of Upasana, Indian Institute of Pastoral Health Theology, Bangalore, belongs to the Order of the Ministers of the Infirm (Camillians). He holds a licentiate and Ph.D. in Bioethics (Regina Apostolorum, Rome) licentiate in Pastoral Health Theology (Camillianum, Rome) and Master in Counselling and a Diploma in Health Care Assistance. He is a visiting professor at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore, Vinjananilaya, Eluru, AP, MCBS theologate in and St. Philomena's Hospital, Bangalore.
