Posted on 04/27/2018 7:21:46 PM PDT by jazusamo
The British governments decision to allow two critically ill babies to die in two years is a natural reflection of the culture of death and the steady increase in totalitarian tendencies among Western governments.
Last year, the British government ordered life support removed from Charlie Gard, ending his life when he was just 11 months old. Now, Alfie Evans just 23 months old has received what amounts to the same death sentence. On Monday, he was removed from life support by court order against the wishes of his parents.
Then something remarkable happened. The child confounded his doctors and refused to die.
As of the time I am writing this, Alfie Evans is still alive and is breathing unaided. This is despite the claim made by a medical professional during a court hearing that Alfie would die quickly possibly in minutes if taken off life support.
But even this display of the power of the human spirit to defy the expectations of the supposedly rational and objective state did nothing to sway the minds of the British courts and state-run medical apparatus.
On Wednesday, another legal appeal by Alfies parents to be allowed to try and save their sons life was denied.
The secular system has asserted its right to define what lives are worth living and is determined to prevent its authority from being questioned. Alfie Evans life like Charlie Gards before him has been determined to be limited by the standards of the secular state, and therefore without value.
These tragic government-imposed death sentences for innocent infants should frighten all of us about increasing secularism in society and the steady shift towards a totalitarian willingness to control our lives down to and including ending them on the governments terms.
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The outcome of an openly secular state is already historically well established. It was the Soviet Union and the monumental extent of its evil cannot be overstated.
What happens when the citizens are disarmed.
Noticed a pic where a dozen “tough guys” (cops) blocked the entrance to the hospital.
If you haven’t watched it, check out the television series, Turn — available on Netflix.
The series concerns Washington’s Spy Ring, but also does a good job of illustrating UK’s sanctimonious repression.
Al criminal illegal monies aside, Who would get the better care and survive here, Chelsea’s kid or yours, I rest my case
And we have "gay marriage" in part because of one homosexual activist judge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Walker
"Two months ago, Vaughn Walker, the federal judge who last August struck down Californias Proposition 8, retired; on April 6th, he met with reporters, and took the opportunity to acknowledge that he has been involved in a ten-year relationship with a male partner, a physician. There had been rumors that Walker, who was appointed to the bench by George H. W. Bush, was gay, and the San Francisco Chronicle had reported that the rumors were true."
Sure, they screwed the Irish, Welsh, the Scots, but hey- they take really good care of their own. It isn't just any government who blesses its own subjects with good times like the Enclosure Acts, the Battle of the Somme, Alfie Evans...
Mr. niteowl77 (former Anglophile)
I don’t know enough about the details of his medical condition to verify that, but it’s a huge risk in a society where everyone has an expectation that their lives will be managed by the state from birth to death.
Merely late term abortions...
VERY.
CHOICE takes care of about a million a year in the good ol’ USofA; why fret over a couple more?
Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind.
Some are more equal than others.
Socialized medicine that Obama wants brought to America!..... SHAMEFUL!
AMEN!
HMMMmmm...
Must be time for The Message; again...
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
You are correct. The child was effectively dead.
The issue boils down to the parents right to take the child to Italy for treatment. I’ve seen no argument as to why the state had the rght to allow treatment to be with held.
.....”take the child to Italy for treatment”.....Italy had no ‘treatment “ for Alfie....just repeating tests in hopes they could determine the cause of his brain disease. But even if they did find the cause there was nothing they could do that would restore Alfie....and the parents recognized this.
Well, well..... those facts add to the murky reality.
Conclusion:
So far as the Italians were concerned, Alfie was a guinea pig for study of a very rare condition
Yes....that’s right.
What do you think it would be like here if we didn’t have guns?
Pretty much a communist society, now have thought crimes (speaking against killing a baby), govt insurance death panels, no guns, no knives, with the added bonus of plenty of feral Muslims to rape the women and stab the men, with an occasional terrorist attack thrown in for good measure.
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