The world seems to be going to hell in a hand basket
lately. Millions of people have been
displaced in the Middle East, Europe is being overrun with refugees fleeing
from ISIS, and both Russia and China have been treating the USA as if we were
powerless to respond to attacks on our economy, our cyber security, and even
our boarders. Despite our military and
economic superiority, the United States has been acting as if we are powerless
to respond to these threats. All this is
reminiscent of the late 1970s when Jimmy Carter conceded that the expansion of
Communism just south of our boarder in Central America, was inevitable and we
just had to live with it.
It’s easy to blame a weak president who is all too
willing to stand by as Christians are brutally slaughtered and our national
sovereignty is disrespected, but I think the real problem is even more serious,
and harder to remedy than by simply electing a new, stronger president. Last Sunday’s readings stood out for me as a
clarion call, addressing what is really contributing to all this calamity and
decline. Moses, speaking to his people
said, “In your observance of the commandments of the Lord, you shall not add to
what I command you nor subtract from it.
Observe them carefully, for thus will you give evidence of your wisdom
and intelligence to the nations, who will hear of these statutes and say, “This
great nation is truly a wise and intelligent people. What great nation has statutes and decrees
that are as just as this whole law?” (Deuteronomy 4: 6-8)
As a nation, we have wantonly and shamelessly added
and subtracted from God’s law in myriad ways.
In doing so, we have lost sight of The
Truth as revealed by God and by nature, and substituted human laws rooted
in lies and false assumptions. The
biggest lie of all is that taking a human life in-vitro is good, and
contributes to society. Sounding very
much like Margaret Sanger, Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsberg points out that abortion
reduces the number of ‘undesirables’.
Moreover, we’ve codified this into law, and demand that every tax payer
support it, in direct violation of God’s Law: “Thou shalt not kill.” We treat sex and promiscuity as a basic human
right and the basis for marriage, without regard to the consequences to health,
pregnancy, family responsibility, or the common good. Ironically, the further we travel down this
slippery slope, the more radical Islamists hate us for being “degenerate.”
In short, the moral underpinnings of our democracy
have been undermined and it has led to injustice, violence, and poverty,
because the inherent dignity of women and children is disregarded. Consider the pandemic of human trafficking
that is seldom mentioned in the media, the homicide rate, and the push for
assisted suicide. Worse yet, the
political pressure to push the abortion and gay marriage agenda is about more
than just women’s health and gay rights, it is about the destruction of the
family and the implementation of a totalitarian system in which the government,
not parents, assumes responsibility for teaching the new morality. This may sound harsh, but look at what is
happening in our schools. Children are
being indoctrinated with this progressive agenda all the way from grade school
through college. Here’s what the
Archbishop of Guam had to say, after gay marriage was deemed law:
“The next step
will be to implement this theory in the educational system of Guam,” said the
archbishop. “This means that our children, your children, will be forced to
assimilate to this pattern of non-gender; that there is no-such-thing as ‘male’
or ‘female’; they will be encouraged to explore their sexuality earlier, and
parents will have no voice in the education of their children.”
There is no question that parental rights and
responsibilities, are being abrogated by government at all levels. There are numerous stories about schools
banning the terms ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ in favor of ‘friends.’ Gender-neutral bathrooms and locker rooms are
being imposed on children despite the objections of parents and students
alike. It’s not enough for business
owners to accept the gay lifestyle, they must participate in gay marriages if requested. The conscience rights of medical and
pharmaceutical professionals are being disregarded, and even religious
institutions such as colleges, hosptials, and hospices must agree to provide
abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization or face catastrophic fines that would
cause bankruptcy.
The point of all this
is that our government has far exceeded its legitimate authority. Much of this change over the past six years
has come about by executive fiat and court decree, but the democratic process
has created this situation by electing people unwilling to choose in favor of The Truth. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC)
teaches that “No society can last unless it is based on a hierarchy of values
based on the just ordering of relationships.”
It goes on to say that legitimate authority is that which is in keeping
with The Truth of human nature, and
works toward the common good. “No one is
obliged to obey laws that are arbitrary and unjust or that contradict the
natural moral order.” The CCC further
explains that,
“The common good follows wherever the fundamental
rights of the person are respected and men can freely develop their
intellectual and religious potential. The
common good implies that men can live in society with freedom, peace, and
security. The common good is best served
where the good of the individual person and of the smaller units of society
(for instance, the family) is central. The individual and the smaller social
unit need to be protected and promoted by the stronger power of State institutions.” During the past six years, our government has
done just the opposite.
Is it any wonder
then, that we have become weak and feckless?
It is as if we are committing national suicide in slow motion, under the
auspices of giving people what they want: freedom from responsibility;
government funded food, housing, healthcare, pensions, childcare, education,
abortions, and contraception. Does that
sound like a recipe for building a virtuous society? Instead it has resulted in the lowest
workforce participate rate in half a century, and the creation of an
entitlement mentality, all of which smacks of socialism and is lapped up by the
devotees of Bernie Sanders. People don’t
seem to know any better, because they are indoctrinated into this ‘new morality,’
and enticed by all the free stuff. Our
only way out of this is to wake up from this delusional state of
self-indulgence and return to our Judeo-Christian roots. It is God’s Law and the virtues it promotes
that made our nation the most powerful, most just, and economically successful
in the world. We are a nation of LEGAL immigrants, who
arrived here with little or no money, received no welfare benefits, no food
stamps, and no handouts. Our forebears
worked hard because they had to. They
honored their faith and their family responsibilities, and formed a republic
based on an honest to God commitment
to the common good, and the utmost respect for the dignity of every human
life. They established LEGITIMATE
authority, rooted in God’s Truth and the natural order. Unless we return to this model of personal responsibility
and adherence to God’s Law, our nation will continue to flounder and we will
suffer the slow and painful death being experienced in the socialist countries
of Europe, mired in debt and overrun by Muslim immigrants. WAKE UP AMERICA !!
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