"How long will it be, holy and true master, before you sit in judgment and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?" - Rev. 6:10

Sunday morning I came across a post on Thoughts of a Regular Guy (It Takes A Big Man) that linked to an article that was An Apology to Murder, Inc. for comparing them to Planned Parenthood, since PP is so much worse. The author makes some excellent points. (& had some very sobering stats to back it up.)

I put up a response that was half serious, half tongue in cheek: "While I having ocassionally refered to PP as Murder Inc, I have also often said that PP makes them seem like amateurs. Basicly, this post backs up my claim that PP is worse.
As someone of Italiano heritage, but no Mafia ties, I think that I am able to speak on behalf of Murder Inc., accept you apology & say you are forgiven for trying to lower them down to the level of PP."

On Paul's blog I added this: "The only question I have, is how soon before we have to apologize to Hitler for comparing PP to him because they are outdoing him as well?"

I got thinking about what the post said & what my response is & got to thinking that things are even worse than simply comparing what PP does to either Hitler or Murder, Inc.would make it sound like. Our "culture of death" is like nothing ever before seen as far as I am concerned.

1st of all, if you look over at the right hand column you will see a counter that shows how many babies have died by abortion since the star of the Iraq War. It has over 7.75 million children murdered. Then there is the real time counter that gives a rough idea of how many abortions are going on. & this is just what PP, Marie Stopes, & the other abortionists (as individuals or as a part of a clinic) are doing via surgical abortions.

But there is more we need to include. There are all the chemical abortions that we don't have a totally accurate count for. I'm talking about those that use the morning after pill & the like. Next we have to add in all those unborn killed because of those forms of birth control that prevent the embryo from being implanted in the uterus. Unfortunately, we have no real idea of how many that is.

Next up we need to look at embryonic stem cell research. This is being justified in the same way that the experiments did by Nazi doctors in the concentration campsd & the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments were. They all use a utilitarian approach that says the end justifies the means.

Then we have how many people like Terri Schiavo & Elena Englaro who are called "vegetables" because of their condition. 1st of all the term "vegetable" dehumanizes them. This enables those in the "culture of death" to justify killing them. The term "quality of life" comes up here, just as it does when talking about unborn children with down syndrome, etc & with those suffering from debilitating illnesses to justify killing them. In this last case, the terms we use are "euthenasia" & "mercy killing".

Next we have to add in those experiments that are trying to create chimeras, designer children through cloning, clones for the previous mentioned experiments such as embryonic stem cell research, etc. I could go on & on.

When you add all of the above together, it outdoes any evil done by Murder, Inc. or Hitler's Nazi regime. Even if you take what they did, add in all the evil done by dictators like Stalin, Pol Pot (killing fields), Idi Amin, et al, the deaths caused by all the genocides of the 20th Century, individually or as a group, what they did is but a drop in the ocean compared to what the "culture of death" is doing in our day & age.

Now, I am NOT trying to trivialize all of these evils. The "culture of death" is doing a good enough job of that by their actions. & that is my point. & that is the point the author was making with his apology. Nothing can justify any of those evils. Yet, by what we are allowing with the "culture of death" our society HAS given its tacit aproval to those past actions as well.

& when I add in the decandance & immorality that is rampant in society today, all I can do is weep & wonder why God hasn't completely pulled back His protecting hand to let us reap the whirlwind. How much longer, as has been seen many times in the past, will it be until even the righteous are not enough to spare us any more than the few righteous in Sodom & Gommorah were to spare them. We are on the brink of a serious chastisement.

In Luke 11:32 & Matthew 12:41 Jesus warns us that Ninevah will judge the generation that rejected him, because they repented when warned. I see in that, a message for our time. While the title quote from Revelation refers to those matryred for the faith asking how much longer will God allow evil to go on, I can hear those words being said by the voices of the victims of the "culture of death".

Whether we like it or not, some day we will stand before God in judgment. & before then our society will probably have to face judgment, as so many have before, & answer for its crimes. When we stand before God, will those victims stand up in judgment against us, or will they be able to say that we did what we could (even if, in our humaness, imperfectly) to put an end to the evil that is the "culture of death"? To the extent we are silent, to the extent we have failed to repent for society's sins, to the extent we have failed to pray & act as best we could, we will have to answer for those failures.

It is not too late, even if you haven't done any or all of what you should to change. As long as we are alive we can turn to God & ask his mercy to forgive us. Then we can also ask God to give us the wisdom & guidance to do all we can to fight the battle. & when we stumble, for the grace to pick ourselves up, repent, & get back in the fight.

As I said, we are on the brink of a serious chastisement. But it is not too late. The many prayers, roasries, Masses, etc have spared us the full wrath we deserve. But for how much longer?

I don't know about you, but I don't want to have to stand before a single victim of the "culture of death" & be ashamed that I didn't try to do what God expects of me in this battle.