The Culture of Death
Realizing the Consequences of Our Actions
Chris Sparks
Issue date: 4/28/09 Section: Opinion
I write this in fear and trembling, for I know I need to act along the lines I lay out below, and have not fully done so. And yet what I have written is the truth, as best I can see it, and so I must speak it, though I am less than the truth which I speak. And the truth is this:
Ladies and Gentlemen, we live in the culture of death.
Let that phrase ring throughout the West. Let us never cease to repeat it, till all ears reverberate with the aftershock of that monstrosity: we live in the culture of death.
How?
Tell me: what happened to us, that abortion has become a regrettable necessity?
What happened, so that we will show images of almost anything in our movies, our culture, our lives-will call for photos of the coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq, will demand to see the photos from Abu Ghraib, will look upon images of the victims of the Holocaust, of Stalin, of World Wars, of atomic bomb victims, of almost every other example of man's inhumanity to man-except for images of abortion? When did we accomplish this remarkable feat of detaching the consequences from the action?
More importantly for the pro-life world: when did we neglect, or forget, to emblazon the words of Mother Teresa over the doors of every parish church, over every chancery, over every home where a barren couple dwells or a well-off family with grown children tend an empty nest-in short, when did we forget to mark our homes as within the covenant of the Lord so that the angel of death will pass over the children dwelling therein?
Where have we posted this?
"…this I appeal in India, I appeal everywhere: Let us bring the child back, and this year being the child's year: What have we done for the child? At the beginning of the year I told, I spoke everywhere and I said: Let us make this year that we make every single child born, and unborn, wanted. And today is the end of the year, have we really made the children wanted? I will give you something terrifying. We are fighting abortion by adoption, we have saved thousands of lives, we have sent words to all the clinics, to the hospitals, police stations - please don't destroy the child, we will take the child. So every hour of the day and night it is always somebody, we have quite a number of unwedded mothers - tell them come, we will take care of you, we will take the child from you, and we will get a home for the child. And we have a tremendous demand from families who have no children, that is the blessing of God for us. And also, we are doing another thing which is very beautiful - we are teaching our beggars, our leprosy patients, our slum dwellers, our people of the street, natural family planning."
Ladies and Gentlemen, we live in the culture of death.
Let that phrase ring throughout the West. Let us never cease to repeat it, till all ears reverberate with the aftershock of that monstrosity: we live in the culture of death.
How?
Tell me: what happened to us, that abortion has become a regrettable necessity?
What happened, so that we will show images of almost anything in our movies, our culture, our lives-will call for photos of the coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq, will demand to see the photos from Abu Ghraib, will look upon images of the victims of the Holocaust, of Stalin, of World Wars, of atomic bomb victims, of almost every other example of man's inhumanity to man-except for images of abortion? When did we accomplish this remarkable feat of detaching the consequences from the action?
More importantly for the pro-life world: when did we neglect, or forget, to emblazon the words of Mother Teresa over the doors of every parish church, over every chancery, over every home where a barren couple dwells or a well-off family with grown children tend an empty nest-in short, when did we forget to mark our homes as within the covenant of the Lord so that the angel of death will pass over the children dwelling therein?
Where have we posted this?
"…this I appeal in India, I appeal everywhere: Let us bring the child back, and this year being the child's year: What have we done for the child? At the beginning of the year I told, I spoke everywhere and I said: Let us make this year that we make every single child born, and unborn, wanted. And today is the end of the year, have we really made the children wanted? I will give you something terrifying. We are fighting abortion by adoption, we have saved thousands of lives, we have sent words to all the clinics, to the hospitals, police stations - please don't destroy the child, we will take the child. So every hour of the day and night it is always somebody, we have quite a number of unwedded mothers - tell them come, we will take care of you, we will take the child from you, and we will get a home for the child. And we have a tremendous demand from families who have no children, that is the blessing of God for us. And also, we are doing another thing which is very beautiful - we are teaching our beggars, our leprosy patients, our slum dwellers, our people of the street, natural family planning."
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Terrence S. Kiolbassa
posted 4/28/09 @ 3:02 AM PST
Lets keep this simple.
If someone does not want kids, don't have sex.
Terrence S. Kiolbassa
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