Posted on 04/30/2014 10:49:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Noted for her groundbreaking work on grief associated with death and dying, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was the quintessential physician who cared deeply about the emotional wellbeing of her dying patients. Through her extensive studies and research in psychiatry, Dr. Ross came to the conclusion that there are five unique emotional stages involved in dealing with death: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and ultimately – acceptance.
Looking around this country today, one has to wonder which stage of grief we are all in, because our Judeo-Christian heritage is most assuredly dying. Just last week came the horrifying revelation that at least 40 vulnerable Veterans had been denied their rightful medical benefits and relegated to the pile of people eligible to perish – all at the unmerciful hands of our federal government. While this occurred in Arizona, based upon poor VA hospital standards, it’s likely that this is not an isolated event.
And at almost the same time, shocking evidenced surfaced that the Marion County Resource Recovery Facility in Brooks, Oregon had been incinerating the remains of dead babies in order to provide electricity to nearby homes and businesses.
Although the indecency of using human bodies to warm our homes was primarily blamed on the practices of the waste management company, Stericycle, someone within the government at Marion County had to have signed the agreement with Covanta for the solid waste reception. Since local, state, and federal governments lost their innocence a long time ago, it seems likely that at least one official in the chain would have known.
As with all new news stories, there was limited outrage for a few days, fueled by appropriate calls from Veteran and Pro-life groups demanding an end to these insane practices. But sadly, these tragic events are too soon forgotten, leaving us with a much bigger question percolating right under the surface.
When did the whole of America lose site of the value of human life?
We expect soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines to lay down their lives for our freedoms, displaying the ultimate sacrifice for our wellbeing. Yet no one’s explained to their families how these same individuals became expendable after their term of honorable service had expired. Like so much used fodder, the officials at the VA hospital in Phoenix cast them aside without compassion or concern for their dignity or lives.
As for the human fuel issue, radicals stop at nothing to save a tree, protect a spotted owl and defend the dolphins. Yet those same pro-Gaia fanatics demonstrate actively for abortions on demand and eliminating life that’s not cost effective to sustain. Although liberals campaign against clean and economical nuclear power, oil drilling and coal mining, they were amazingly silent on the Marion county situation, leaving one to postulate on the their apparent complicit willingness to accept a few extra kilowatts generated by fried human remains in order to run their precious televisions and computers.
Aside from the obvious nausea such a concept should evoke, this juxtaposition makes no rational sense. On the one hand, everything plant or animal is sacred, while on the other hand, everything human is inconsequential and utterly disposable.
When Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring” 52 years ago, her radical premises opened the floodgates to the liberal green movement. It was a slow, evolutionary process to get Americans to believe they are a vile plight in the universe. Yet, here we are. And that, coupled with the 1973 Roe V Wade decision for abortion on demand, worked a little black magic. America was systematically hit with two seemingly uncoordinated platforms, but both sides have worked relentlessly to bring the unsuspecting public to the centerline of hedonism and depravity toward those who cannot defend themselves; the very young, the sick, and the very old.
Have we, as a God fearing country, strayed so far down the green-peace path that we can no longer see the forest for the trees? Or is it just that our country is dying and we are numb from the denial? If that’s the case, then we seriously need to move on to the next stage of grieving and get angry about America’s imminent demise. Because if we don’t, it won’t be long before we find ourselves bargaining with the devil or bureaucrats to save our own skins.
And it won’t matter if we’re depressed when the government knocks on our own front doors to inform us that the death panels have decided we’re not worthy to occupy space any longer, because it’ll be too late. In the end, we’ll be powerless to do anything but accept our fateful demise – the very impending doom we denied existed in the first place.
Since healthy people will not fight the sick and perverted they are running rampant. Anyone that would connive at the death of a little baby it not too likely to show and moral restraints. I think that ultimately any crime will become acceptable to these people; i.e. kill an owl DIE!
To borrow popular business terminology, the federal government must be “right-sized.”
Do you mean that you aren’t willing to fight for the US?
And to further qualify my answer, I quote a visiting pastor to my church about 30 years ago: “Where would the early church have been if it had put its faith in Rome”.
The US I knew is long gone and not coming back. The only positive change that can come at this point is to help something good rise from the ashes. It is because our problem is not our elected officials. The problem is the electorate, and we are woefully outnumbered.
In 2011 I moved to a farm I bought (two weeks before the 2008 election) in central Kentucky from my 45 year home of Seattle in the spirit of Revelation 18:4.
Time and events have made it clear it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
When a Woman will kill her own Children,
Or contracts someone else to do the killing,
And Society condones the killing,
What other Boundaries are left?
The most fundamental fabric of Humanity is ripped.
He meant what he said. The USA had a pretty good run.
It’s over. The glue to our melting pot was a majority religious people.
Americans are no longer Anglo, Christian, virtuous educators, nor free to impact the nation with Christianity, or classical education. How do you propose to fight a vaccum.
Just sayin’.
Despite what some posters say here, I am willing to stand up and fight. Giving up is simply a sign of being weak.
Goes to show I am RIGHT and I stand by my words. Revolt is coming.
May 16, 2014, “Operation American Spring” is coming to Washington D.C.
Well, I’m not giving up. It’s not even close to over. The media with its constant drumbeat of hopelessness and nihilism is far less effective that one might think. The airwaves are full of evil but one need only drive around and observe the world to see that most people aren’t blood loving perverts and scoundrels like we see in Politics, entertainment and sports. It’s not over for the USA. Not by a long shot. Putin’s regime and the Chicomms will be long dead and buried before we go under.
You got it right. Time to right size the government.
That was an important milestone in our national demise. But I think the answer lies earlier than that: the discovery and widespread use of The Pill. It threw open the gates for the "sex without consequences" libertinism that's engulfed our society. And if pregnancy could be avoided with a little pill, it was only a tiny step to acceptance of abortion.
I believe The Pill is the root cause of many of our national aberrations. We've almost entirely lost sight of the fact that sex is for reproduction of our species, not just a wild, irresponsible series of orgasms.
Be sure and posts pics and videos when you do that.
“Not with a bang but a whimper. “
I think “with a bang” is much more probable with Mr Nobel Peace prize in charge than with a guy who mispronounces nuclear.
.....Or rather of what I see happening.
Cognitive dissonance on display. Simply put, an evil American dictatorship is felt to be a contradiction. Killing innocents here can't happen. It is an impossible inconsistency.
By refusing to accept the seriousness of our situation, one can stick to the comfortable and American belief in elections. Election of the right people is all that is needed, and that belief is consistent with our tradition.
OTOH, if one accepts the fact that the Left seeks arbitrary power closer to that of Stalin rather than Ronald Reagan, that what little freedom we have exists at the pleasure of a few hundred people in DC, one has to decide what to do about it.
There is one peaceful option, so it must be pursued. It is as simple as that.
Huh?
I doubt God will save this nation from the consequences of its own freely chosen choices:
1) Abortion
Millions can show up to buy a chicken sandwich but can't figure out how to put an end ( peacefully) to abortion? Really?
2) Christians and conservatives **willingly** turn their children over to godless schools where they **will** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the godless classroom. Scary!
These are the creeps who will administer the ACA... if they are this irresponsible and criminal about he well-being of Vets... I am sure that Joe Shmoe, who only ever worked and paid taxes all his life, can’t expect any better treatment!!
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