| Fighting Abortion in a Cultural War - 2006 |
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| Written by The American TFP |
| Sunday, 22 January 2006 15:00 |
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Year after year since the tragic Roe v. Wade decision, we come here to protest abortion on the streets of the nation’s capital.
Year after year, the devastation caused by abortion becomes more patent, while its harmful consequences accumulate. Abortion and the “Culture of Death”
But abortion causes far more than mere demographic problems. Its legalization has had a profound impact in the areas of human behavior, ideas and culture. It strengthened what Pope John Paul II, in his 1995 Encyclical Evangelium Vitae, so aptly called the “culture of death.” Indeed, as that Pontiff explained, when people no longer see attacks on the unborn as crimes but rather as “rights,” a radical change takes place in the cultural standards of the nation.1
Pope Benedict XVI called this culture of death an “anti-culture” in which people seek to flee reality through drugs, lies and sex, which is turned into a merely irresponsible entertainment.2
In this culture of death, the state not only tolerates but also protects through its judiciary and police establishments a practice opposed to natural and divine law. This exerts a powerful influence on people’s mentalities, as they tend to deem what is legally permitted as being morally acceptable. Abortion and Cultural War
This subversion of our laws and longstanding traditions is a real Revolution or Cultural War. It does not destroy buildings or property but rather institutions, customs and mentalities. It subverts the laws, transforms people’s morals, ridicules the family, and mocks religion.
Abortion is a very bloody and cruel consequence of this devastating cultural warfare, bloodless though it may seem. Accepting Abortion Leads to Persecution of Christianity
Any criticism of acts or attitudes opposed to morals is branded a “hate crime.” Aren’t the myriads of spiteful attacks against all things religious “hate crimes” as well? Does this not apply to Christian symbols, the adorable person of Our Lord Jesus Christ and his Blessed Mother wich are brutally vilified with impunity?
Among the many examples of this anti-Christian fury are the “Anti-Christmas Christmas Special” by Denis Leary on Comedy Central, and the staging of “Corpus Christi,” portraying Our Lord and His Apostles as homosexuals, at the University of Nebraska, both last December; and in November, the exhibit titled “Full Frontal,” in the Detroit art gallery, included a nude image supposedly representing the Blessed Mother (called “Virgin Mary III”).
But what’s happening is more than just an all-out effort to push secularism and persecute Christianity. Sectors of the media and Hollywood are also favoring the spread of neo-paganism.
A typical example of this is the huge media promotion about The Da Vinci Code, a novel soon to be released as a movie. With an absurd and unlikely plot, it exalts a pagan religious system and violently attacks the Church by parroting old anti-clerical myths already refuted countless times in the past. Why so Much Hatred? Fighting Abortion in a Cultural War
To the degree that new-fangled “rights” like abortion, same-sex “marriage” and euthanasia are affirmed, so also “the glorious freedom of the children of God”3 will be eliminated in our nation.
We must then forge ahead with this fight in earnest, always in a peaceful and legal manner, knowing that the future of our country hinges on this struggle.
Let us move forward with confidence in the final victory in spite of eventual hardships and reversals. For, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”4 ________________________ 2. “Benedict XVI Denounces Culture of Death,” (Jan. 8, 2006 (Zenit.org).
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