The Culture of Death Part 2

In our society today, we are supposed to have ‘evolved’ into a kinder,

gentler sort of people. We are an educated people who are the penultimate in sophistication. We no longer make sacrifices to strange idols, do we? We are all about “the children”. And we are always trying to renew our commitment to our environment so that others will be able to enjoy what we have enjoyed for so long. We have become so advanced that we might even bring Heaven to exist right here on Earth. Right?

And yet the evidence is clear that this is not really the case. By all outward signs, we are as dysfunctional and deviant as any generation to have previously walked the face of this earth. King Ahab and Queen Jezebel would be proud. See 1 Kings 16 through 2 Kings 9.

Our lives are continually being disrupted by a deluge of information regarding our time here on this earth and how we are supposed to live. Someone else is always trying to tell us how we should live in order to please everyone else. And as Christians, most the information we get from the popular culture is not generally in our best interest to listen to and should be ignored.

In the last forty years, the drum has been beating for the call to the Abortion Clinics. Since 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down anti-abortion laws, over 1.2 billion children have never seen the light of day in the world which we find ourselves. The abortion industry, a billion dollar a year mega-industry, has had to reinvent itself with a new public relations campaign trotted out every few months.

In the past few weeks, with the Susan G Koman For the Cure Foundation deciding to de-fund Planned Parenthood, the abortion industry stopped even trying to play the nice guy and showed their true colors. Even though the amount of money Koman was giving was paltry in relation to the abortion industry budget, abortions were again reinvented as ‘women’s health’ and Koman was bullied into continuing to fund the abortion mills.

In this time, numerous new books about the effects of abortion on the real health issues women have after having had an abortion have come out. One in particular is “Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion” by Dr. Theresa Burke with David C. Reardon. It deals with the aftermath of the abortion, which is deeply traumatic and often ignored by the mainstream media.

Some of the post abortion risks, which are never mentioned, are:

* There is an 800% increase in breast cancer for women less than 18 years old who have an abortion after the eighth week of pregnancy.

* There is an 80% increase in breast cancer if the woman has an abortion before a live birth.

* The risk of breast cancer increases with the number of abortions.

* Women who have an abortion before a live birth and develop breast cancer have a greater possibility of a faster growing tumor with a poorer cure rate than women who have not had an abortion.

And these are just statistics in regard to breast cancer. It doesn’t take in consideration all the other types of cancer that rise significantly as soon as a woman has even one forced abortion to a pregnancy. And this is supposed to be about women's health? Really? Is that your final answer?

Our culture is one that is the modern day equivalent of Israel under Ahaz and Jezebel, who led their nation in Baal worship. We may not actually bow down to a graven image of a half-man, half bull, but all the signs of Baal worship are alive and well in our culture. Baal was one of the seven princes of Hell and is the primary pagan idol of the Phoenicians, often associated with the pagan goddess Ashtaroth. The name Baal means ‘lord’, such as Baal Zebub, ‘lord of the flies’; this is another name for Satan.

Three pillars of Baal worship are:

1. Child Sacrifices. Today this works itself out in the abortion industry with over a billion children having been sacrificed on the altar of convenience since 1973. There was a recent study in Europe by two bioethicists justifying the deliberate, premeditated murder of newborns during the first few days and weeks after a child is born. They would not call it murder, but a post-birth abortion. As one sign said, “Abortion does not make you Un-pregnant; it makes you the mother of a dead baby.”

2. Sexual Immorality. This is found in both homosexual and illicit heterosexual sexual promiscuity. From comprehensive sex education in schools (beginning as early as elementary school), to the militant ‘gay rights’ movement that doesn't want just equality but complete acceptance of their lifestyle as to be considered ‘normal’ and healthy. Radical feminism essentially states that men are no longer needed or wanted to make a safe environment for everyone to live in. One of their statements made the implication that all sex, even consensual sex, between a man and a woman in a marriage is still rape.

3. Pantheism. The worship and reverence of all things over the Creator. You can see this in the worship of Gaea, the Earth Goddess, or Mother Earth. It is also seen in the radical environmentalism movement that places Earth above the lives of human beings. As I said before, there are people that actually believe that the world cannot maintain its equilibrium with this many human beings on it. But facts are hard to argue with and the fact is that the entire population of the world could probably live in the land mass found within the state of Texas with every family having something like 2 ½ acres of land. And our advanced technology in agriculture has shown that the United States can actually grow enough food to feed all 6 billion inhabitants of this world.

Here’s a thought: some say that the television is an idol. If it’s not an idol, why are all the chairs in the TV room facing it?

God’s plan for mankind has always a place of peace and rest in Him. But man from the start, beginning with Adam and Eve’s disobedience and subsequent removal from the Garden, has been duped into thinking that the key to his ultimate fulfillment will be found in being like God. Satan thought then, ands still thinks today, of man as “useful idiots”. Man doesn’t even realize that he is being used.

Part of this ‘being like God’ is the “God complex” that man has developed. And with this comes the ‘right’ to make life or death decisions. Thus abortion, both pre-birth and post birth, and its brother of the death culture, euthanasia, makes absolute sense to modern man. If a person has cannot contribute to society in a meaningful way financially, as well as socially, it is in man’s self interest to remove them from that society. This is what we’ve come to.

And this is what now passes as being sophisticated. I don’t know. If that’s sophistication, well, all I can say is that Hell will be filled with sophisticated people. Remember, everything Adolph Hitler did when he was chancellor of Germany was ‘legal’. It still doesn’t make it right.

The Culture of Death

The Culture of Death

Rush Limbaugh found himself in a major brouhaha recently over remarks he made about Sandra Fluke, a 30 year old third year law student at Georgetown University, and her demands that insurance companies pay for her birth control medicines. Actually, her comments were that Georgetown University should be forced, by the federal government, to pay for her birth control.

Georgetown University is a Catholic University and contraception is against the Catholic Church’s belief system. Georgetown University is only exercising their 1^st amendment right to practice their religion

without interference from the government. The Catholic Church’s teachings on birth control are spelled out in excellent form in Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae (Human Life), which condemned all form of unnatural or artificial birth control as wrong

The 1^st Amendment reads as such: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;…” That seems pretty clear to me. But then I consider myself a reasonable person. And, unlike Ms. Fluke, I am not an activist.ersity is a Catholic University and contraception is against the Catholic Church’s belief system. Georgetown University is only exercising their 1^st amend

ment right to practice their religion without interference from the government. The Catholic Church’s teachings on birth control are spelled out in excellent form in Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae (Human Life), which condemned all form of unnatural or artificial birth control as wrong.

A considerable amount of information came out recently about Ms. Fluke that shows her entire issue in a clearer light. Ms. Fluke is a liberal, left wing activist who enrolled at Georgetown University specifically so she could springboard herself into the public eye as a victim of the 223 year old Jesuit Institution’s “medieval infringement on her rights as a human being.” (The Daily Caller article titled “Sandra Fluke’s Choices”) Personally, I don't consider Ms. Fluke a victim at all. Her only victim hood is that her parents never raised her to believe in taking personal responsibility for her actions.

Another issue at stake is how hilarious the entire matter is in the first place. Nobody at Georgetown is denying Ms. Fluke the opportunity to purchase contraceptives or any birth control measure of her choosing. Since 1965,

contraception has been legal in the United States, after the Supreme

Court decision in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut, when the court struck down Connecticut’s law against contraception.

Ms. Fluke spoke to a Congressional hearing about how Georgetown was denying her civil rights by not paying for her contraception devices, even though Target sells birth control pills for $9.00 for a month’s supply, roughly $297 for the 33 months she would be enrolled at Georgetown Law School. This is something that the Mainstream media either refused to cover or is simply too lazy to do a Google search about. The fact that Ms. Fluke is a left-leaning liberal activist, becoming one of the mainstream media’s poster children for abortion and distortion of the Constitution, and is setting her sights on the Catholic Church, the arch-nemesis of the liberal left, makes this choice all too easy for the mainstream media to immediately paint Ms. Fluke as the victim here. She stated that the cost of her birth control was going to be around $3000 for her time at Georgetown and that Georgetown was obligated to pick up the tab.

Rush Limbaugh picked up on this absurdity of how she connected the dots from her being able to have sex (without consequences) to Georgetown University being responsible for the cost. If Geo

rgetown was responsible for the cost of Ms. Fluke’s birth control, the logical conclusion is that Georgetown would be shouldering the responsibility for Ms. Fluke’s sexual activity. Ms Fluke is part of a growing generation of spoiled ‘children’ that do not want to take responsibility for their actions. She wants to have sex without the consequences of that lifestyle. A good question that should be asked is “Is there anything that Rush Limbaugh said that is not true?”

Let me start by saying that first of all, there are NO ACTIONS THAT DO NOT HAVE CONSEQUENCES. Even Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Now I do not know what the opposite and equal reaction to having sex might be, but there definitely is a reaction. They are called children. Ms. Fluke demanding that Georgetown University take responsibility for her irresponsibility is a ludicrous as someone stepping off a multi-story building and demanding that someone else take responsibility for their falling down. Even the president of the United States, no matter how powerful he thinks he is, cannot repeal the law of gravity

But the government stepping in and stating they were going to force Catholic institutions to cover birth control via fiat has all the fingerprints of a tyranny in the making. But then Pope Paul saw this one coming. In Humanae Vitae, he predicted four separate societal disasters awaiting us if we legalized contraception.

Contraception, at its core, is the inhibiting the God-given truth about the purpose of sex in the first place. Sexual activity, within the boundaries of marriage, provides three specific purposes. 1) Reproduction and childbirth; 2) Protection of the family unit through a closer union, intimacy and mutual respect between husband and wife; and 3) Recreation, the physical enjoyment of each other through the intense physical pleasure a married couple can share through the sexual experience. Sexual activity was never intended to be an activity that was self-centered.

1. There would be a loosening of morality and the inevitable marital infidelity that goes along with it. The rise in divorce rates, out-of-wedlock pregnancies, abortions, and venereal diseases in the past twenty-five years is undeniable. The amount of marriages in particular is nothing less than shocking. Some countries in Western Europe have a marriage rate so low as to think that a wedding is a sort of an anomaly in that culture.

2. There is a general loss of respect for women. Paul argued that the man would ‘lose respect for the woman’ and consider her simply an instrument to satisfy his own physical desires. The rise of pornography has resulted with a major theme in pornographic films being the sexual abuse of women, even to the point of a women ‘enjoying’ being raped. Someone said back around 1997 that there are 1000 new websites put out on the internet every single day and somewhere in the area of half of those are pornographic websites. And that was almost 15 years ago. This is billion dollar a year industry (that’s billion with a ‘B’) that targets teenage young men in the same manner as illegal drugs.

3. The abuse of power. Pope Paul said that acceptance of contraception would be a “dangerous weapon …in the hands of those public authorities who take no heed of moral” urgencies. Rahm Emmanuel, the former Chief of Staff to Barak Obama once said something similar to “We can’t allow an emergency go to waste.” China’s overpopulation policy is an extreme case in point. But there are people in this country who think we need to lower the population to “save the planet”. Ted Turner believes that 2/3 of the population has to go for our world to survive. I wonder if he realizes that at his age, he’s a prime candidate to be first in line for ‘culling the herd’. The real problem, though, is that most countries are not suffering from overpopulation but under population growth.

4. Unlimited dominion. Man will eventually start to think he has unlimited dominion over his own body. This is the old “I’m the master of my destiny, captain of my fate” song and dance. This, of course, completely takes God right out of the equation. Right along with that frame of thought comes sterilization (which is now the most widely used form of contraception), growing children specifically for the purpose of harvesting their organs for our own use when our own organs fail, and then euthanasia when a person of lesser financial means is of no further purpose to meet our own needs. If there is one truth that is eternal, other than there is a God in heaven, it is that He will not be mocked.

Ms. Fluke seems like a reasonably intelligent woman, although her moral compass has obviously been skewed. In order for her to even get into Georgetown Law School, she has to have some amount of reason and an ability to think logically. Unfortunately, Georgetown does not give tests that determine a person’s ability to be used as a dupe for the ‘Death Culture’, which Ms. Fluke obviously has fallen into. She’s not alone in this arena. Brighter, more culturally savvy people than she have fallen for this sham of logic that ‘if it feels good, do it’. The main problem is that if, and when, she realizes her stupidity, the damage will already be done and many people will be hurt by this cultural genocide.

I’m afraid that she may find herself facing off against Someone who is less likely to be cowed into apologizing to her and His comments will cause a whole lot more trouble than just a few days embarrassment.

One can only pray for someone like this, hoping that God will be merciful to her and the thousands that are following in her footsteps.

The following web pages were very helpful in writing this blog.

http://www.nd.edu/~afreddos/courses/264/popepaul.htm

http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/03/sandra-flukes-choices/

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