Posted on 10/18/2003 11:06:58 AM PDT by MarMema
But in this country he is given one of the most prestigious chairs at Princeton, and is paid to Teach ethics and philosophy to our brightest and most influential perhaps, young minds.
This from a man who has proposed there be centers set up around the country where parents can "turn in" their infants - up to 6 months old or older - and have another child, if they don't like the one they have now for any reason.
What will his graduating classes bring to us? What have they already brought to us?
I searched and it did not come up.
Is there anything we can learn from this?
When they came for the Catholics?
When they came for the Baptists?
When they came for the fundamentalists?
When they came for the agnostics?
When they came for the physically disabled?
When they came for the mentally disabled?
Just something for all of us to think about -- is this picture larger than we currently see it?
Believe me, they will pay in God's court! Here are some of the hints at how the rulings will go:
From a search of The Catechism of the Catholic Church (first 40 references on life
| 2280 Everyone is responsible for his life before God who has given it to him. It is God who remains the sovereign Master of life. We are obliged to accept life gratefully and preserve it for his honor and the salvation of our souls. We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has entrusted to us. It is not ours to dispose of. |
| 2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.
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| 336 From its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession. "Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life." Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God. |
| 2367 Called to give life, spouses share in the creative power and fatherhood of God. "Married couples should regard it as their proper mission to transmit human life and to educate their children; they should realize that they are thereby cooperating with the love of God the Creator and are, in a certain sense, its interpreters. They will fulfill this duty with a sense of human and Christian responsibility." |
| 1524 In addition to the Anointing of the Sick, the Church offers those who are about to leave this life the Eucharist as viaticum. Communion in the body and blood of Christ, received at this moment of "passing over" to the Father, has a particular significance and importance. It is the seed of eternal life and the power of resurrection, according to the words of the Lord: "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." The sacrament of Christ once dead and now risen, the Eucharist is here the sacrament of passing over from death to life, from this world to the Father. |
| 2273 The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation: "The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being's right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death." "The moment a positive law deprives a category of human beings of the protection which civil legislation ought to accord them, the state is denying the equality of all before the law. When the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are undermined. . . . As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child's rights." |
| 2288 Life and physical health are precious gifts entrusted to us by God. We must take reasonable care of them, taking into account the needs of others and the common good. Concern for the health of its citizens requires that society help in the attainment of living-conditions that allow them to grow and reach maturity: food and clothing, housing, health care, basic education, employment, and social assistance. |
| 1007 Death is the end of earthly life. Our lives are measured by time, in the course of which we change, grow old and, as with all living beings on earth, death seems like the normal end of life. That aspect of death lends urgency to our lives: remembering our mortality helps us realize that we have only a limited time in which to bring our lives to fulfillment:
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| 1641 "By reason of their state in life and of their order, [Christian spouses] have their own special gifts in the People of God." This grace proper to the sacrament of Matrimony is intended to perfect the couple's love and to strengthen their indissoluble unity. By this grace they "help one another to attain holiness in their married life and in welcoming and educating their children." |
Using a feeding tube as a reason to kill doesn't get it.
Feeding tubes have been in use for over a hundred years and many, many people use them while they work, play baseball, mow the lawn, and raise their children.
If we are going to kill people because they have a feeding tube, then according to the above link, there are about 848,000 people in need of euthanasia in this country alone.
What are the criteria? Just the desire of a family member to be rid of someone, and the vulnerability of the family member. Infants, the elderly, and the disabled are vulnerable.
What does it say about us as a society? Wesley Smith says that the vulnerability of others presents a sort of mirror to us in which to see our own reflections. The current reflection of this country doesn't look good to me.
It has also occurred to me that NOT to assist those who do in fact, care for the handicapped among us is, something for which that person will have to pay for throughout eternity.
Now, that being said, it is my belief that the less fortunate, health-wise, amongst us are actually GIFTS FROM GOD to be treasured and loved.
Of far more importance is that you recognize how this case connects with all the death being cultivated around the globe.
The elitists' deep ecologists are on record of tolerating no more than 500 million people on the planet. To remove 6 billion people they must void the sanctity of human life paradigm. They cannot abrogate the sanctity of life ethic without first kicking God out of the public sphere in America, the USA being the hegemon of the globe. It all is part of the same battle. If this one case and all it portends bothers you, then it all must bother you.
God grant that your pleas penetrate to the vestiges of the conscience of Jeb Bush.
Thanks for the explanation..Nancy Valko sent out the WND version this morning and it was dated today on WND.
Just wait until aging baby boomers start to need medical care and Social Security begins to go into the red. The way the idiot left is acting, I bet they would find this a logical solution </half-sarcasm
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