With all there is to admire about the work of Alexander Graham Bell, not everything he did led to a positive outcome. His connections to the eugenics movement, experience with livestock breeding, and experience working with the deaf, led him to conclude that children born to congenitally deaf parents would themselves be born deaf.
Bell called these, “a defective variety of the human race”. By the 1930's half the states in the US had eugenics laws and the California laws were used as a model for eugenics laws in Nazi Germany. We all know where that ended with Adolf Hitler's theory of a “master race”.
What can we learn from this? We need to carefully consider what message we send out into the world. Had this knowledge been blended with the love and compassion of Christ, history may have told a different tale.
Are you ensuring that the views you hold passionately in life are sent out with a compassionate message?
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