About
Wesley J. Smith discusses the importance of - and various threats to - the unique dignity and importance of human life from the context of living in a secular society.
Human Exceptionalism
English, Christianity, 1 season, 114 episodes, 5 hours, 24 minutes
Human Exceptionalism
English, Christianity, 1 season, 114 episodes, 5 hours, 24 minutes
Will We REALLY Kill Alzheimer's Patients?
Will the United States follow the lead of other countries who have put into law the most radical euthanasia policies?
10/6/2017 • 0
Will We REALLY Kill Alzheimer's Patients?
Will the United States follow the lead of other countries who have put into law the most radical euthanasia policies?
10/6/2017 • 0
Will We REALLY Kill Alzheimer’s Patients?
Will the United States follow the lead of other countries who have put into law the most radical euthanasia policies?
10/6/2017 • 8 minutes, 51 seconds
How the Media Promotes “Some” Suicides
Should we be working to prevent all suicide, or should we support and encourage "some" suicides?
9/20/2017 • 0
How the Media Promotes “Some” Suicides
Should we be working to prevent all suicide, or should we support and encourage "some" suicides?
9/20/2017 • 0
How the Media Promotes “Some” Suicides
Should we be working to prevent all suicide, or should we support and encourage "some" suicides?
9/20/2017 • 9 minutes, 9 seconds
What If There Was Another Polio Epidemic?
To what extent should efforts be made to work for the healing of those with significant illnesses, like polio, rather than letting them die with assistance?
9/6/2017 • 0
What If There Was Another Polio Epidemic?
To what extent should efforts be made to work for the healing of those with significant illnesses, like polio, rather than letting them die with assistance?
9/6/2017 • 0
What If There Was Another Polio Epidemic?
To what extent should efforts be made to work for the healing of those with significant illnesses, like polio, rather than letting them die with assistance?
9/6/2017 • 7 minutes, 19 seconds
What's Love Got to do With Transhumanism?
Wesley introduces the Transhumanists and then explains what is wrong with their desire to increase human intelligence.
8/4/2017 • 0
What's Love Got to do With Transhumanism?
Wesley introduces the Transhumanists and then explains what is wrong with their desire to increase human intelligence.
8/4/2017 • 0
What’s Love Got to do With Transhumanism?
Wesley introduces the Transhumanists and then explains what is wrong with their desire to increase human intelligence.
8/4/2017 • 8 minutes, 40 seconds
Whose Baby is Charlie Gard, Anyway?
Who should decide what is best for a child, the parents or medical professionals and the state?
7/19/2017 • 0
Whose Baby is Charlie Gard, Anyway?
Who should decide what is best for a child, the parents or medical professionals and the state?
7/19/2017 • 0
Whose Baby is Charlie Gard, Anyway?
Who should decide what is best for a child, the parents or medical professionals and the state?
7/19/2017 • 8 minutes, 3 seconds
Three Culture of Death Tipping Points
How did our society become so accepting of a culture of death - from Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Terri Schiavo, and Planned Parenthood?
7/2/2017 • 8 minutes, 40 seconds
Three Culture of Death Tipping Points
How did our society become so accepting of a culture of death - from Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Terri Schiavo, and Planned Parenthood?
7/1/2017 • 0
Three Culture of Death Tipping Points
How did our society become so accepting of a culture of death - from Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Terri Schiavo, and Planned Parenthood?
7/1/2017 • 0
Rivers Declared to be “Persons”
Should aspects of nature be given the same kind of rights as human beings?
6/14/2017 • 7 minutes, 36 seconds
Rivers Declared to be “Persons”
Should aspects of nature be given the same kind of rights as human beings?
6/14/2017 • 0
Rivers Declared to be “Persons”
Should aspects of nature be given the same kind of rights as human beings?
6/14/2017 • 0
Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine!
Returning to the podcast after a personal break, Wesley ask, "Can doctors and other healthcare providers be forced to provide medical proceeds, like abortions, when it goes against their convictions?"
5/21/2017 • 8 minutes, 9 seconds
Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine!
Returning to the podcast after a personal break, Wesley ask, "Can doctors and other healthcare providers be forced to provide medical proceeds, like abortions, when it goes against their convictions?"
5/20/2017 • 0
Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine!
Returning to the podcast after a personal break, Wesley ask, "Can doctors and other healthcare providers be forced to provide medical proceeds, like abortions, when it goes against their convictions?"
5/20/2017 • 0
Assisted Suicide Right for the Institutionalized Mentally Ill
Is euthanasia really the best way to alleviate the suffering of those dealing with serious mental illness?
11/24/2016 • 0
Assisted Suicide Right for the Institutionalized Mentally Ill
Is euthanasia really the best way to alleviate the suffering of those dealing with serious mental illness?
11/24/2016 • 0
Assisted Suicide Right for the Institutionalized Mentally Ill
Is euthanasia really the best way to alleviate the suffering of those dealing with serious mental illness?
11/18/2016 • 7 minutes, 28 seconds
“Animal Rights” Would Ban Pets
Should animals and humans have the same rights? How best should we care for animals in a humane way without confusing the value of the two?
10/20/2016 • 0
“Animal Rights” Would Ban Pets
Should animals and humans have the same rights? How best should we care for animals in a humane way without confusing the value of the two?
10/20/2016 • 0
“Animal Rights” Would Ban Pets
Should animals and humans have the same rights? How best should we care for animals in a humane way without confusing the value of the two?
10/20/2016 • 7 minutes, 25 seconds
How Assisted Suicide Advocacy Hurts the Sick
Wesley J. Smith shares the story of his friend, Robert Salamanca, who died peacefully with dignity of ALS.
8/30/2016 • 0
How Assisted Suicide Advocacy Hurts the Sick
Wesley J. Smith shares the story of his friend, Robert Salamanca, who died peacefully with dignity of ALS.
8/30/2016 • 0
How Assisted Suicide Advocacy Hurts the Sick
Wesley J. Smith shares the story of his friend, Robert Salamanca, who died peacefully with dignity of ALS.
8/30/2016 • 8 minutes, 1 second
It's Time to Debate “Brave New World”
Are we living in the "Brave New World" of Aldous Huxley?
8/11/2016 • 0
It's Time to Debate “Brave New World”
Are we living in the "Brave New World" of Aldous Huxley?
8/11/2016 • 0
It’s Time to Debate “Brave New World”
Are we living in the "Brave New World" of Aldous Huxley?
8/11/2016 • 7 minutes, 53 seconds
Religious Conscience Unwelcome in Healthcare
Will healthcare providers who hold to the sanctity of human life be allowed work in the emerging secular society?
7/26/2016 • 0
Religious Conscience Unwelcome in Healthcare
Will healthcare providers who hold to the sanctity of human life be allowed work in the emerging secular society?
7/26/2016 • 0
Religious Conscience Unwelcome in Healthcare
Will healthcare providers who hold to the sanctity of human life be allowed work in the emerging secular society?
7/26/2016 • 8 minutes, 2 seconds
Even The Worst MDs Can Be Suicide Doctors
Do "doctors of death" need any specialized training to diagnosis and prescribe lethal drugs to patients who want to die?
7/10/2016 • 0
Even The Worst MDs Can Be Suicide Doctors
Do "doctors of death" need any specialized training to diagnosis and prescribe lethal drugs to patients who want to die?
7/10/2016 • 0
Even The Worst MDs Can Be Suicide Doctors
Do "doctors of death" need any specialized training to diagnosis and prescribe lethal drugs to patients who want to die?
7/8/2016 • 7 minutes, 48 seconds
More Than in God's Image
What is the best way to defend the exceptional nature of human beings?
6/24/2016 • 0
More Than in God's Image
What is the best way to defend the exceptional nature of human beings?
6/24/2016 • 0
More Than in God’s Image
What is the best way to defend the exceptional nature of human beings?
6/24/2016 • 6 minutes, 55 seconds
Words With the Power to Kill
Do the words that we use to describe the various stages and conditions of human life really matter?
6/6/2016 • 0
Words With the Power to Kill
Do the words that we use to describe the various stages and conditions of human life really matter?
6/6/2016 • 0
Words With the Power to Kill
Do the words that we use to describe the various stages and conditions of human life really matter?
6/6/2016 • 7 minutes, 14 seconds
Redefining “Death” Would Unleash Great Evil
Does it matter how "death" is defined, and who defines it?
5/31/2016 • 0
Redefining “Death” Would Unleash Great Evil
Does it matter how "death" is defined, and who defines it?
5/31/2016 • 0
Redefining “Death” Would Unleash Great Evil
Does it matter how "death" is defined, and who defines it?
5/27/2016 • 7 minutes, 59 seconds
Even Materialists Crave Religion
Is the desire for meaning and purpose exclusive to those who are religious, or do all human beings long for something more?
5/13/2016 • 0
Even Materialists Crave Religion
Is the desire for meaning and purpose exclusive to those who are religious, or do all human beings long for something more?
5/13/2016 • 0
Even Materialists Crave Religion
Is the desire for meaning and purpose exclusive to those who are religious, or do all human beings long for something more?
5/13/2016 • 7 minutes, 20 seconds
Scientists Promote Human UNexceptionalism
Is human life exceptional when compared to the animal kingdom? Some scientists do not think so!
4/27/2016 • 0
Scientists Promote Human UNexceptionalism
Is human life exceptional when compared to the animal kingdom? Some scientists do not think so!
4/27/2016 • 0
Scientists Promote Human UNexceptionalism
Is human life exceptional when compared to the animal kingdom? Some scientists do not think so!
4/27/2016 • 8 minutes, 10 seconds
Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting
Should a human life be ended just so we can harvest their organs for another person's use? It might be closer than you think!
4/9/2016 • 0
Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting
Should a human life be ended just so we can harvest their organs for another person's use? It might be closer than you think!
4/9/2016 • 0
Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting
Should a human life be ended just so we can harvest their organs for another person's use? It might be closer than you think!
4/9/2016 • 7 minutes, 52 seconds
The Walking Dead
Does it matter what happens to our bodies after we die? The Orthodox Christian faith says, "Yes!"
4/1/2016 • 0
The Walking Dead
Does it matter what happens to our bodies after we die? The Orthodox Christian faith says, "Yes!"
4/1/2016 • 0
The Walking Dead
Does it matter what happens to our bodies after we die? The Orthodox Christian faith says, "Yes!"
4/1/2016 • 7 minutes, 57 seconds
“Remembrance of Death” Can Overcome “Death Obsession”
Why is our culture obsessed with death, and how can remembrance of death help us to overcome it?
3/16/2016 • 0
“Remembrance of Death” Can Overcome “Death Obsession ”
Why is our culture obsessed with death, and how can remembrance of death help us to overcome it?
3/16/2016 • 0
Canada and the Right to Die
Is the "right to die" more important than religious liberty?
3/16/2016 • 0
Canada and the Right to Die
Is the "right to die" more important than religious liberty?
3/16/2016 • 0
What Euthanasia Enthusiasts Really Want
What do euthanasia enthusiasts really want? To eliminate suffering of any kind by eliminating the sufferer.
3/15/2016 • 0
What Euthanasia Enthusiasts Really Want
What do euthanasia enthusiasts really want? To eliminate suffering of any kind by eliminating the sufferer.
3/15/2016 • 0
Canada and the Right to Die
Is the "right to die" more important than religious liberty?
3/13/2016 • 7 minutes, 34 seconds
Mainstreaming Animal Personhood
Should animals have the same rights of "personhood" as humans?
3/1/2016 • 0
Mainstreaming Animal Personhood
Should animals have the same rights of "personhood" as humans?
3/1/2016 • 0
Mainstreaming Animal Personhood
Should animals have the same rights of "personhood" as humans?
3/1/2016 • 8 minutes, 26 seconds
“Remembrance of Death” Can Overcome “Death Obsession”
Why is our culture obsessed with death, and how can remembrance of death help us to overcome it?
1/29/2016 • 8 minutes, 44 seconds
Why We Don't Get Along
Wesley demonstrates how the West is increasingly incapable of engaging in true debate, achieving broadly agreeable consensuses or finding middle-ground compromises about the most important controversies that vex us.
1/28/2016 • 0
Why We Don't Get Along
Wesley demonstrates how the West is increasingly incapable of engaging in true debate, achieving broadly agreeable consensuses or finding middle-ground compromises about the most important controversies that vex us.
1/28/2016 • 0
What Euthanasia Enthusiasts Really Want
What do euthanasia enthusiasts really want? To eliminate suffering of any kind by eliminating the sufferer.
1/15/2016 • 8 minutes, 50 seconds
Why We Don’t Get Along
Wesley demonstrates how the West is increasingly incapable of engaging in true debate, achieving broadly agreeable consensuses or finding middle-ground compromises about the most important controversies that vex us.
12/26/2015 • 8 minutes, 42 seconds
Environmental Protection, Yes. “Nature Rights,” No.
The once ludicrous notion that ecological protection and fighting climate change require according legally enforceable human-style rights to nature is becoming more mainstream within the environmental movement. Wesley J. Smith examines the consequences.
12/8/2015 • 0
Environmental Protection, Yes. “Nature Rights,” No.
The once ludicrous notion that ecological protection and fighting climate change require according legally enforceable human-style rights to nature is becoming more mainstream within the environmental movement. Wesley J. Smith examines the consequences.
12/8/2015 • 0
Environmental Protection, Yes. “Nature Rights,” No.
The once ludicrous notion that ecological protection and fighting climate change require according legally enforceable human-style rights to nature is becoming more mainstream within the environmental movement. Wesley J. Smith examines the consequences.
12/8/2015 • 8 minutes, 10 seconds
You Are NOT an Ape
Even if we came about through purely materialistic and Darwinian means, it is self-evident that something happened to make us so remarkably distinct from every other known life form.
11/17/2015 • 0
You Are NOT an Ape
Even if we came about through purely materialistic and Darwinian means, it is self-evident that something happened to make us so remarkably distinct from every other known life form.
11/17/2015 • 0
You Are NOT an Ape
Even if we came about through purely materialistic and Darwinian means, it is self-evident that something happened to make us so remarkably distinct from every other known life form.
11/17/2015 • 9 minutes
Transhumanism
Wesley discusses "transhumanism"—what is quickly becoming the world's newest religion, offering adherents the kind of hope once within the exclusive province of faith and without the humbling concept of an omnipotent God to whom one owes prayer and thanksgiving.
11/13/2015 • 0
Transhumanism
Wesley discusses "transhumanism"—what is quickly becoming the world's newest religion, offering adherents the kind of hope once within the exclusive province of faith and without the humbling concept of an omnipotent God to whom one owes prayer and thanksgiving.
11/13/2015 • 0
Transhumanism
Wesley discusses "transhumanism"—what is quickly becoming the world's newest religion, offering adherents the kind of hope once within the exclusive province of faith and without the humbling concept of an omnipotent God to whom one owes prayer and thanksgiving.
11/3/2015 • 8 minutes, 51 seconds
Say No to Validated Suicide
Supporting another's self-destruction is not a compassionate or morally neutral act.
10/22/2015 • 0
Say No to Validated Suicide
Supporting another's self-destruction is not a compassionate or morally neutral act.
10/22/2015 • 0
Say No to Validated Suicide
Supporting another's self-destruction is not a compassionate or morally neutral act.
10/20/2015 • 7 minutes, 24 seconds
Why Our Medical Elite Support Planned Parenthood
If you think it is respectable to consider babies, whether born or unborn, to be an inferior stage of human life, you can easily come to think that they have few rights that fully developed persons are bound to respect.
10/9/2015 • 0
Why Our Medical Elite Support Planned Parenthood
If you think it is respectable to consider babies, whether born or unborn, to be an inferior stage of human life, you can easily come to think that they have few rights that fully developed persons are bound to respect.
10/9/2015 • 0
Why Our Medical Elite Support Planned Parenthood
If you think it is respectable to consider babies, whether born or unborn, to be an inferior stage of human life, you can easily come to think that they have few rights that fully developed persons are bound to respect.
10/6/2015 • 9 minutes, 58 seconds
Life Is a Cabaret, Old Chum
Yesterday's views of depredation have become today's banal norms.
9/22/2015 • 0
Life Is a Cabaret, Old Chum
Yesterday's views of depredation have become today's banal norms.
9/22/2015 • 0
Life Is a Cabaret, Old Chum
Yesterday's views of depredation have become today's banal norms.
9/22/2015 • 7 minutes, 23 seconds
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Once a culture accepts the fundamental premise of euthanasia consciousness, there is no way to limit doctor-administered death to those who are already at the end of their lives.
9/12/2015 • 0
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Once a culture accepts the fundamental premise of euthanasia consciousness, there is no way to limit doctor-administered death to those who are already at the end of their lives.
9/12/2015 • 0
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Once a culture accepts the fundamental premise of euthanasia consciousness, there is no way to limit doctor-administered death to those who are already at the end of their lives.
9/9/2015 • 16 minutes, 24 seconds
Prevent Medical Martyrdom
Hippocratic pro-life medical professionals are increasingly being pressured to practice their science and art without regard to their personal faith or conscience beliefs.
8/25/2015 • 0
Prevent Medical Martyrdom
Hippocratic pro-life medical professionals are increasingly being pressured to practice their science and art without regard to their personal faith or conscience beliefs.
8/25/2015 • 0
Prevent Medical Martyrdom
Hippocratic pro-life medical professionals are increasingly being pressured to practice their science and art without regard to their personal faith or conscience beliefs.
8/25/2015 • 12 minutes, 8 seconds
Reflections On Planned Parenthood And Cecil The Lion
Two items in the news lately have captured Wesley's attention.
8/14/2015 • 0
Reflections On Planned Parenthood And Cecil The Lion
Two items in the news lately have captured Wesley's attention.
8/14/2015 • 0
Reflections On Planned Parenthood And Cecil The Lion
Two items in the news lately have captured Wesley's attention.
8/11/2015 • 8 minutes, 7 seconds
Cecil the Lion
The killing of Cecil the Lion is a bad thing. On a new "Human Exceptionalism," Wesley J. Smith explains why while differentiating between animal rights and animal welfare.
7/30/2015 • 0
Cecil the Lion
The killing of Cecil the Lion is a bad thing. On a new "Human Exceptionalism," Wesley J. Smith explains why while differentiating between animal rights and animal welfare.
7/30/2015 • 0
Cecil the Lion
The killing of Cecil the Lion is a bad thing. On a new "Human Exceptionalism," Wesley J. Smith explains why while differentiating between animal rights and animal welfare.
7/30/2015 • 7 minutes, 28 seconds
What Clarence Thomas Meant
Wesley discusses the concept of human dignity.
7/21/2015 • 0
What Clarence Thomas Meant
Wesley discusses the concept of human dignity.
7/21/2015 • 0
What Clarence Thomas Meant
Wesley discusses the concept of human dignity.
7/21/2015 • 9 minutes, 37 seconds
Introduction
Wesley introduces his podcast, as well as the concept of human exceptionalism.
7/6/2015 • 0
Introduction
Wesley introduces his podcast, as well as the concept of human exceptionalism.
7/6/2015 • 0
Introduction
Wesley introduces his podcast, as well as the concept of human exceptionalism.
7/6/2015 • 11 minutes, 3 seconds