As western societies around the world are increasingly moving towards populist right-wing political movements, have they been driven there by the declining morality? One area that seems to be driving the rise of populism is the sanctity of life, including the increasing use of full-term abortions and the promulgation of assisted dying. The proponents of euthanasia suggest that it is compassionate care and allows greater choice to those who are suffering in this world. What is veiled as compassion is actually a departure from the value placed on human life. Increasingly gone are the days when every health professional did their utmost to keep a person alive and happy for as long as possible. Now, health professionals' roles have expanded to intentionally ending their patients' lives. This is not just suicide, but assisted suicide by those who ultimately experience no loss from the patient dying and stand to gain financially from the end-of-life care of their patient. If this doesn't shake a person to reconsider where society's morals have gone, not much will. When those who are meant to be prolonging life are being used to take life, and it is legislated by the politicians of a country, it is legalising murder, which is contrary to the sixth commandment.
But is this continuous push that has been experienced across the Western world to devalue life a "political play card" to push society into searching for a moral alternative? The Bible has predicted that there will be enforced worship at the end of time (Revelation 13:12-15). This requires a society that is going to be dominated and regulated by a religious ideology. Such a world will feign being moral and dealing with the social and moral issues of the day, whilst simultaneously taking away liberty of conscience and freedom of religious expression - the greatest immoral behaviour of all: tyranny over every man's conscience. Have assisted dying and other such immoral laws really been a political maneuver to push society to cry out for moral overlord's who will crush religious liberty?