Posted on 04/11/2008 9:47:19 PM PDT by Coleus
Many people are expecting Pope Benedict XVI to speak out in defense of human life and against abortion during his visit to the United States next week. What few people realize, however, is that the pope knows first-hand what happens when a society refuses to defend the most defenseless of its citizens.
As a boy of fourteen, Joseph Ratzinger had a cousin who had been born with Down's Syndrome, only a bit younger than himself. In 1941, German state "therapists" came to the boy's house and probably informed the parents of the government regulation that prohibited mentally handicapped children from remaining in their parents' home. In spite of the family's pleas, the representatives of the Nazi state took the child away. The Ratzinger family never saw him again. Later the family learned that he had "died," most likely murdered, for being "undesirable," a blemish in the race and a drain on the productivity of the nation. This was Joseph Ratzinger's first experience of a murderous philosophy that asserts that some people are disposable.
Author Brennan Pursell heard this heart-wrenching story while collecting material for his ground-breaking biography, Benedict of Bavaria (Circle Press, 2008). While most available biographies of the pope are based on Western news coverage, Pursell, who is fluent in German, went to Germany, especially to Bavaria, where the Pope is from and collected his information from what he calls "intimate sources" - the friends, neighbors, colleagues, and co-workers who have known Joseph Ratzinger for years.
As the pope said during his visit to Austria in 2007, the right to life is the first of all human rights. To speak, then, of a "right" to abort an unborn child is a contradiction in terms. This is a truth that, for Pope Benedict, is self-evident.
"He will present the Catholic teaching as a positive," Pursell says about Benedict's upcoming visit to the States and how he will treat matters of Catholic moral teaching on abortion and related topics. "But at the same time he will be unapologetic about it."
The So called “scince” of Eugenics rears it’’s ugly head again, the connection betweent he Eugenicis movement and Planned Parenthood is one of the great fallings of the MSM in America, that Margerat Sanger was hip deep in both is never mentioned nor discussed..period...
To Sanger, eugenics meant that the good people should have babies and the bad people none. Ironically, to her successors, it means that no one should have babies, except for those who can afford to keep them as pampered pets.
But but but I thought Pope Benedict was a Nazi himself. I’m so confused...
Goodbye.
It isn’t by accident that eugenics,Margaret Sanger,Planned parenthood aren’t mentioned truthfully by the MSM . The MSM agree with the notion that some babies are more worthy than others ie white kids are preferable to black kids.
It's called sarcasm, Francis.
Ping to post #7. Sorry, I forgot to aim it at you originally.
For example designer babies.
Most leftists believe that some people are more equal than others, and when you don’t believe in traditional morality and you do believe in a vague utilitarianism, this gets translated into the idea that “inferior” people may be killed or a minority of people may be killed if that helps the majority. They are in denial about how much their movement is a spin-off from the old eugenics movement and how the eugenics movement was a central ideology of the white supremacists in America and the Nazis in Europe.
Hitler was a great admirerer of Darwin, and the survival of the fittest, which played right into his theory of the superiority of the Aryan race.
I’ve heard that in the top, innermost circles of scientists, the Theory of Evolution is on its way out, due to recent discoveries in Quantum Physics and Chaos Theory.
I do not understand what this means! (Liberal Arts major here.)
However, what I read implied that Evolution is so “PC” (sort of like global warming) that even though the most advanced scientists know it’s a flawed idea, they cannot yet speak out about new theories, society is not ready for it, they would be ridiculed by the scientific/academic community.
Which is true, but it’s as relevant to the validity of the theory of evolution as is the fact that Hitler loved dogs to the contest rules of the AKC.
It wasn’t entirely clear and it is also a plausible statement to expect to hear from some quarters of FR.
Sadly, true with a few knuckleheads around here.
And they'll arrive on this thread soon enough.
Probably will include, "So your typical Pope reverts to opposing ..."
Thank you. I try to craft my sarcastic posts so that the “sarcasm” tag isn’t necessary. But sometimes it doesn’t work out!
“Which is true, but it’s as relevant to the validity of the theory of evolution as is the fact that Hitler loved dogs to the contest rules of the AKC”
I was responding to the fact that Hitler did away with the Down’s Syndrome child, because that child was considered inferior, which plays right into Hitler’s thinking about Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” philosophy. The inferior have to be done away with, only the fittest should be allowed to survive.
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