The Twelve Supporting Pillars of the Culture of Life centers on two things: what is needed to produce a civil society, and what is transpiring to bring it to ruin. The problem that currently faces us consists of a broad range of factors. They include the personal and familial, the social and political, the moral and the spiritual, language and literature, and the philosophical and the religious. We are assaulted on all fronts. Therefore, we need to be informed, realistic, resourceful, diligent, and courageous.The rejection of reason goes hand in hand with the rejection of God. The individual has replaced the Deity and reason has been replaced by will. At the same time, this is not a pessimistic book since it emphasizes the fact that the capacity to reason and think about things is still present in the human being. We need to be who we are destined to be: rational human beings who love life and are eager to share it lovingly with others. The first and vital step in reforming society is in the awareness of what is happening around us. This book is dedicated to that proposition, with the fervent hope that it will be of assistance to those readers who are concerned about the cultural crisis in which we are presently engulfed.