Posted on 03/23/2005 2:26:26 PM PST by ajr276
It seems that many people hold a vested interest in the destruction of Terri Schiavo. Having finally found a states rights and family rights cause they can get behind, the culture of death has extended its blood lust from unborn babies to indisputably alive adults.
While we've come to expect a defense for abortion from the pro-death types, what befuddles pro-lifers are the depths to which their opponents (and they are opponents) have extended this barbarous worldview. No longer content to kill babies, they now embrace destroying people in all stages of life. It seems they've lost all compassion and, as such, we have reached a crossroads in the history of our once great nation. To truly be “great” again, one needs to look back only 225 years for the model upon which we built our previously achieved superiority.
One of the marks of a truly great nation is its ability to recognize the fallibility of human reason. Indeed, our founders applied this principal when in the Declaration of Independence they stated that all humans have the right to life. Three guesses go to anyone willing to posit where this right was derived.
Now, was this by mistake? Shouldn’t the founders have pointed to human reason as the primary basis upon which value is assigned? Clearly not, for it is in the right to life that we find values that transcends our oft-assumed “enlightenment.” No culture can withstand the brutality of people who believe themselves wise enough to subjectively place value on human life. When people begin assigning themselves such responsibilities, we see from history the horrible consequences.
There is a saying that in disagreements, the first person to mention Adolph Hitler automatically loses. I would like to add one caveat to that principle…”aforementioned principle stands only if it is incorrectly applied.” In this case, the principle applies.
While our nation thankfully hasn’t reached Hitler’s depths of depravity, by starving a woman to death we have laid the most fundamental building block of his reign of terror…we have made ourselves the primary arbiters in the valuation of life. Fortunately, Hitler didn’t attempt to slowly and methodically lull the world into acquiescence. Instead, his brutality was quick and unmasked, a fact that shocked the world into eventual action.
That said, could Hitler give his Aryan project another go he’d probably find his ends more likely met by employing the tactics of those individuals who are constructively involved in the starvation of Terri. In this tactic, people are sung to sleep with the sweet sounding words of “choice” and “quality of life.” Outspoken vitriol and rage are replaced by slow, steady drumbeats of a double minded phraseology that sooths the conscience, but packs a brutal punch when employed.
Like Hitler, we hide our evil. He placed his work behind barbed wire concentration camps and we hide our murder behind hospital doors. Babies are burned alive, dismembered and cremated. Would be mothers are lied to about the nature of their “choice” and are then left to reconstruct their lives when it turns out the check has been cashed and their abortion provider no longer cares. And as we descend the never-ending spiral of self-righteous delusion, a woman sits in a room starving to death while lawyers and politicians wax philosophical about states rights and quality of life.
In the end, murder is murder and it matters very little to those who are killed whether one chooses in-your-face confrontation or piety as a means for justifying a heinous position. And for those who think killing Terri is the compassionate approach; fast from food and water for 14 days and then reconsider the issue. Your position may change.
The World's Superpower and Champion of Human Rights around the globe is starving and dehydrating a disabled woman to death and underage children who bring her water are being handcuffed and arrested.
Does that sum it up? Did I miss anything?
If China decides to put a bullet in the brain of all their retarded school children tomorrow, what can we say or do?
Next time we want to whine because Libya or Egypt is on the United Nations human rights council we better learn to bite our lip.
There is your perspective from overseas.
I'll add only that the same people who want Terri Schiavo dead are also the first to scream about the imposition of the death penalty against people who commit first degree murders and other capital crimes. To them, life is only worth defending if it is the lives of those who deliberately deprive others of life. "Culture of death" is the exact term that applies to these people.
The philosopher Edmund Burke said in the 18th century: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
I believe the struggle for Terri Schiavo's life to be a spiritual battle. This is an epic struggle between the powers of Light and those of Darkness, one that will have sober consequences for this nation.
I agree. This is about as big a turning point for this country as there can be. It's almost as if I can feel the battle between darkness and light as it is playing out. I have actually woken up in the middle of the night (something I almost never do)the last few nights feeling very uneasy. It sounds strange, but it's like I can feel the struggle. This is a dark day indeed. It appears in this battle that evil will win, with grave consequences to us all.
We do ALL have a vested interest in Terri's case.
Given the right (wrong?) circumstances, any one of us could find ourselves in the same position.
This is a precedent the consequences of which are both far-reaching and horrific.
Evil might win the battle but will lose the war.
Evil will lose in the end.(Isaiah 2:2-4).
Rom 12:12 "Let your hope keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles, and pray at all times."
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