I think you're demeaning the total reality of Christianity if you turn it into merely a motivation to fight savages. Surely the purpose of Christianity is to let the whole Earth know what God wants from us, and to get us to obey God, and to be saved from our sin. That being said, it is also possible I am misunderstanding your views on what savages and savagery are, and it would certainly do some good for us to better define such things.
Eugenics as an ideology is highly suspect. Now don't get me wrong, I see nothing wrong with trying to encourage Christians with good genes as such breeding. My problem comes with the desire to prevent certain people from breeding, which seems like interference with nature as God intended it. And certainly abortions and sterilization are completely immoral. The one way I suppose we could discourage the bad sort of reproduction is making fornication illegal, and punishing out of wedlock mothers.
Jaxon Rodriguez
Is this actually a law or something you made up in your mind?
Henry Gray
The purpose of Christianity is the Great Comission. Teaching new guineneean tribesmen that cannibalism is not ok is just a side-effect of that. We evangelised the savage goths and mongols just as well.
No, the reason its suspect is because pic related happens, and you have some mighty interesting people crawling out of the woodworks trying to remake mankind in their own image. And having biased or misguided humans running the genetic future of humanity might result in lowered genetic diversity, or getting blindsided by some disease, because we selected for X, and X has some weird side effects we never realized. And the more we learn about genetics, we find mendelian inheritance is only half of the story, and the effects of enviromental factors and gene expression is underrated and difficult to measure(remeber lazy lonely crickets and devouring locust swarms? Same animal, different gene expression) aeon.co/essays/the-selfish-gene-is-a-great-meme-too-bad-it-s-so-wrong
We dont even know how domestication happens on a deeper level(sidenote: making animals docile makes them semi-clinically retarded compared to their wild cousins, with a decrease of 1/3 of brain mass) and thats something even illiterate peasants have known how to do for a veeeery long time. We think its the neural crest hypothesis, but even that theory has holes.
