The infamous court case is just one of the many effects of a far more comprehensive cultural divide between those who hold two rival and incompatible views of reality, he said, illustrating a bigger picture issue of which abortion is a symptom.

The pro-life movement must understand and defend the big picture war on the principles of Christianity to be able to win the abortion battle in front of them, said Wiker.

"You can't fix the little picture without fixing the big picture," he told the pro-life gathering.

The Senior Fellow at the Veritas Center for Ethics and Public Life and Professor of Political Science and Human Life Studies at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio addressed attendees of the Bringing America Back to Life convention presented Friday and Saturday by Cleveland Right to Life.

The convention, in its ninth year, centers on prayer, action, voting and education for the pro-life movement on the local, regional and increasingly the national level.

Wiker also explained, as he says he does for his students, that the addressing the big picture issue entails fighting for life in areas normally considered to be outside the pro-life arena.

There is some serious intellectual work to be done along with front-line efforts, he said.

Wiker said he works to help students understand how things went bad with the overall rejection of the sanctity of life. And he stresses to them that the pro-life movement can be defended in any discipline, including philosophy, biology, and mathematics, because of the overall influence those areas have on society.

He detailed contrasts between Christianity and the Epicurean Materialist philosophy for the conference, and how the two opposing philosophies play into the pro-life movement. Epicurean thought seeks to reject a higher power, rejecting with it the idea of human beings made in God's image and thus the sanctity of life.

They are essentially two different views of reality, said Wiker.

The Materialist philosophy of ancient pagan Greek philosopher Epicurus has come to saturate nearly every aspect of our culture, he said, including our way of life and thinking, and our views of law, science, rationality, and reality.

Christianity has been slowly getting displaced and replaced in the last several hundred years by Epicurean Materialism, he said, the result a mix of these two opposite ways of understanding things, creating the environment for current pro-life battles.

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus espoused the idea the Greek gods were the source of all evil and argued they must be gotten rid of, according to Wiker. He also believed human beings were just another random jostling of atoms without souls.

This mindset eliminates the concern for morality.

Where Christianity holds that human beings are made in the image of their Creator, with an eternal destiny and impending judgment after death, said Wiker, in the Epicurean materialist view, there is only matter, and no God, so that philosophy presumes human beings have no soul and are fundamentally no different than animals.

Euthanasia is just as humane for humans as it is for animals in the Epicurean view.

All Christian moral prohibitions are rooted in one central truth, Wiker pointed out, that human beings are not just another animal, and if this is taken away, the foundation is done away with...

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