I watched with horror today a video of the Catholic Priest Father Weslin being arrested at Notre Dame over the weekend for trespassing (protesting abortion), while the most pro-abortion/pro-infanticide president (or politician for that matter) that this country has ever elected was honored by the same university. The link I have attached: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDA0QvWqoss&feature=related is powerful because it shows the honoring of Obama while at the same time showing the arrest of Father Weslin.
Just so everyone is clear on this, a university run by the Catholic Church had one of their own priests arrested for standing up for an undeniable belief of the Catholic faith, while honoring a man who believes that a baby who is born-alive after a botched abortion should by law receive no medical treatment and be left for dead. As I watched the arrest of Father Weslin I was reminded of the Catholic Priests who were arrested by the Nazis for standing up against the genocide of the Jews. Except in this case the arrest order came from fellow members of his faith, and from a fellow Priest, President of Notre Dame Father Jenkins.
I wonder how Father Jenkins can sleep at night with the burden of betraying the teachings of the Catholic Church and a fellow priest on his conscience. Or is it that the glory of being mutually honored by Obama makes up for his betrayal? The teachings of the Church are clear. In 2004 the US Conference of Catholic Bishops released the following statement, "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions."
Equally to blame for the betrayal at Notre Dame is our President. A President with more honor would have requested that no one be arrested for peacefully protesting his visit to Notre Dame, and I think we would all agree that his request would have been granted. Unfortunately while speaking at commencement the following words regarding abortion, "Let's honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion..." he stood by while elderly Priests were not only dishonored for their conscience regarding abortion but were treated as common criminals. But as we have come to see with Obama, what he says and what he does are two very different things. Just ask the nearly 40 people who were arrested on Sunday for "honoring their conscience."
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
The Twilight Zone
There are moments when I am certain I have landed inside the television my parents had in the family room when I was a child, and more specifically smack-dab in the middle of a Twilight Zone episode. I remember as a child a few of the freaky episodes that were on the fringe of being believably real. They were the scariest for me because you kind of thought there was enough reality in them that just maybe they could happen. And really, what was more terrifying than that?!
So that brings me to life today, which is in fact that terrifying place between science fiction and reality. There are moments I see things happening in this country and I cannot believe it is actually happening. Like this is all just really a bad episode of The Twilight Zone and is just real enough to scare the heck out of me.
Seriously, back in the heyday of the show wouldn't Americans have been terrified of an episode in which the Public Schools took over control of our children and began teaching them a communist agenda? Can't you just see the episode...in black and white, children lined up in rows of desks, zombie-like eyes, with a teacher in the front of the classroom named John Dewey looking into the camera and saying in a spooky voice, “You can't make socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.” Scary episode, right?
Except, that isn't an episode of the Twilight Zone, that is America today. John Dewey was the father of modern education and after visiting the Soviet Union, he wrote articles on the “wonders” of Soviet education which were used as the model for our public education system. That is why we have education professors today saying things like, "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our Founding Fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future." --Professor Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard
Maybe in comparison the Twilight Zone isn't such a scary place after all.
So that brings me to life today, which is in fact that terrifying place between science fiction and reality. There are moments I see things happening in this country and I cannot believe it is actually happening. Like this is all just really a bad episode of The Twilight Zone and is just real enough to scare the heck out of me.
Seriously, back in the heyday of the show wouldn't Americans have been terrified of an episode in which the Public Schools took over control of our children and began teaching them a communist agenda? Can't you just see the episode...in black and white, children lined up in rows of desks, zombie-like eyes, with a teacher in the front of the classroom named John Dewey looking into the camera and saying in a spooky voice, “You can't make socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.” Scary episode, right?
Except, that isn't an episode of the Twilight Zone, that is America today. John Dewey was the father of modern education and after visiting the Soviet Union, he wrote articles on the “wonders” of Soviet education which were used as the model for our public education system. That is why we have education professors today saying things like, "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our Founding Fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future." --Professor Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard
Maybe in comparison the Twilight Zone isn't such a scary place after all.
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