I was taken back when I
heard that Canada's top soldier, General Tom Lawson had to apologize for what
he called an "awkward characterization". In a CBC interview with
Peter Mansbridge, Lawson spoke of the problem of military sexual harassment. "It
would be a trite answer, but it's because we're biologically wired in a certain
way and there will be those who believe it is a reasonable thing to press
themselves and their desires on others. It's not the way it should be," he
said.[1]
For the life of me I
don't know why everyone is getting so perturbed? Here is some reaction:
[2]
Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair called the comment "completely
wrong and totally unacceptable," saying "the military brass simply
don't get it."
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau also addressed the remark on Wednesday
afternoon, saying "Gen. Lawson's comments the other day were
completely unacceptable. His excuse was completely inadequate . . . Gen.
Lawson should be immediately dismissed. His comments are absolutely out of
place in 2015 in the society and the country we're trying to build."
Prime Minister Harper responded that he found Lawson's comment "offensive,
inappropriate, completely unacceptable."
Lawson said he made the
comment in an effort to answer a question about how sexual harassment was still
a societal problem in 2015, not just in the military but everywhere.
Again, why the fuss?
The predominant view in our secular nation, a view that perhaps many MPs
would hold to, is clearly atheistic. One well-known scientist and atheist
in the world today is Richard Dawkins. He wrote:
“In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication,
some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you
won’t find a rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe
has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no
design, no purpose, no evil, and no good, nothing but blind pitiless
indifference … DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is. And we dance to its
music.” [3]
Whether General Lawson
believes this or not or even planned it, he was simply articulating the common
worldview of a secular society. Stated otherwise, these soldiers who were
involved in sexually harassing someone, where simply "dancing to their
DNA." That's what Dawkins tells us. That's the end result of a
world without God and any moral prejudice.
So Mr. Mulcair, Mr.
Trudeau and Mr. Harper, if you want a world without God, people are just going
to dance to their DNA, or stated otherwise: just follow their biological
wiring. You can't have it both ways. So please
don't harass the General. He was just following the
secular script (the one you've chosen to follow).
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1, http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-sexual-misconduct-due-to-biological-wiring-gen-tom-lawson-tells-cbc-news-1.3115993
2. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/biological-wiring-remark-on-military-sexual-misconduct-prompts-strong-mp-reaction-1.3117281
3. Richard Dawkins,
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (New York: Basic Books, 1995), 133.
For a fuller response to Dawkins, see Andrew Wilson, Deluded by Dawkins?
(Eastbourne, UK: Kingsway, 2007).
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