Our Culture of Death

It's 2AM local time, the light rain keeping me awake on my night off, and while browsing through the linked Bund blogs I came across several stories that add to the collection of my title.

That's okay, I can refer to the old COD and everyone here gets it. During my classes, both CCD grades I teach, I'll drop a COD comment and for the most part everyone is on the same page. Take one baby step outside this fragile little circle and watch the blank stares or open gasps of shock and disbelief you get.

Every one of us here works in the service industry. Go ahead.

Had a conversation the other night with this girl, I'll call her Jennifer because in real life I cannot think of her name. (Thank God for badges, I'd be lost without them.) I dropped a COD comment while dealing with environmentalists. (Here's idiocy for you. That Duggar reality show on Discovery? The family with 18 kids? Environmentalists protesting the show because the Duggars are exercising irresponsible behavior and damaging the environment by having so many kids.) So I can't help it, I make the comment about what would one expect from a culture of death? This girl Jennifer almost vomits she's so shocked. She's an optimist, she's Earth first, she's so positive her energy alone keeps the negatively charged Sun in it's place.

"Really?" I say. So it's not anti-life to LIMIT the number of children couples or individuals can have?

Not anti-life, just pro-environment.

So who determines how many children is just right? Does Mother Earth have a FaceBook page I'm not aware of?

Needless to say, Jennifer's ever generating positive energy maker overloads her ability to rationally discourse, so she opens and closes her mouth like a guppy. The bad things about conversations like this is that a lurker always jumps in.

"But over population is ruining the planet."

Again, who determines over population?

My favorite answer. "The planet."

So by that logic, we as humans are here to serve the planet, to serve Mother Earth, to serve the environment, and not the other way around?

A group of guppy faces now. They tend to school, you know.

I think of this because Fr. Morris had an awesome article on his site about that very thing, a situation in London where an Alzheimer patient was quartered in a bathroom due to lack of space. No decency, no respect for the sanctity of life. Part of the "green" movement in England nowadays has to do with population control, limiting British families to two kids per couple. THAT, coupled with a couple of articles concerning Spain's Socialist government's latest fight with the Vatican in Whispers in the Loggia blog and my head is about to burst like that scene in "Scanners."

I caused a stir a while back by asking "Could it happen here?" when dealing with gun control. This radical environmentalism IS HAPPENING HERE and it's only a matter of time before OUR, AMERICA'S Culture of Death starts to legislate the deaths of undesireables like the elderly just as neatly as it does the unborn.

Kind of ironic, don't you think, that the Green Movement would be one of the champions of this Culture of Death.