IT'S TIME TO CALL THE LIARS, LIARS! by Gary L. Morella

The culture of life vs. the culture of death

The culture of life worships the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The culture of death worships the god in the mirror. The culture of life as articulated in Evangelium Vitae is received from the Lord. The culture of death is received from the devil. The culture of life recognizes God as the author of life and the universe as opposed to a Supreme Court decision rendered by a supposed Catholic that gives man the natural right to define life and the universe any way he desires. The culture of life recognizes a greater good in a social context and especially in a spiritual one whereby the actions of man are not totally autonomous and have a profound effect on his fellow human beings. It is nonsensical in the culture of life to say that "I'm OK, you're OK," that my morals are not your morals in a relativistic sense because the culture of life recognizes the truth of the natural law. This is in stark contrast to the culture of death that confuses freedom with license, moreover making unlimited freedom the defining characteristic of a soulless man. The culture of life recognizes the sanctity of life from conception to natural death. The culture of death is the antithesis of this position in that a lexicon formulated by the devil is used to anesthetize the very concept of life through its entire spectrum from conception to natural death. Babies are referred to as fetuses, euthanasia is called assisted suicide, and infanticide becomes dilation and extraction or a late term abortion procedure. The culture of life has an answer to the question "what happens when A's rights conflict with B's?" The culture of death doesn't in that it embraces the fallacious concept of unlimited freedom for the totally autonomous unencumbered self as made law by Planned Parenthood vs. Casey. The culture of life affirms the right of every human being to recognize the sacred value of human life and to have this primary good respected to the highest degree. The culture of death recognizes no such right and makes man independent of his neighbors in regard to his actions as the greater good of the human and political communities is ignored. The culture of life recognizes the hypocrisy of those who call for the killing of the unborn but for the grace of God they would not be here to foment such despicable opinions.

The primary function of the state is to secure the safety of its citizens! To license out to citizens a right to deprive others of that right is to call the very legitimacy of a state into question. The state in fulfilling this safety obligation does not encourage the promotion of acts that are self-destructive. This is not the pursuit of happiness as envisioned by the founding fathers. The call for the legitimacy of homosexual lifestyles is proof positive that the state has lost its sanity in regard to this happiness understood in an Aristotelian sense totally devoid of any supernatural connotations. In short, even atheists if still capable of some semblance of rational thought can see this truth.

The culture of life recognizes God's creative action involved in every created thing or process especially in the case of the coming into being of a human person. "I knew you before you were in the womb" (Jeremiah). When man interferes with this creative process as is the case with artificial contraception, man is not letting God be God. Man becomes the arbiter of when life begins, not God. Is it any wonder that it soon follows that man becomes the arbiter of when life ends. As Charles Rice of Notre Dame has said, "euthanasia is nothing more than post-natal abortion while abortion is nothing more than pre-natal euthanasia."

The culture of death represents the eclipse of reason. It has enveloped the world in a new dark age where the disciples of the endarkenment employ intimidation, coercion, lies, and force to give the illusion that public opinion is one with their dark schemes. Obfuscation becomes the name of the game as polls are only quoted which further their ends. This eclipse of reason is more rightly seen as an eclipse of the sense of God which inevitably leads to materialism and atheism which breeds individualism, utilitarianism, and hedonism. Prime examples of these disciples are the former leaders of the free world, the Clintons, who by their actions, should be recognized for the despots they are. Sadly, this is not the case as the economy carries more weight than a sense of eternal perdition. The dissidents in the Catholic Church have done their work well. Ironically, they can't wait to go to a place whose existence they deny and take as many with them as possible.

The culture of death redefines families, as the two genders of Genesis no longer suffice. Five are now required per recent UN women conferences to include homosexuals, bisexuals, and something called transgendered (transsexuals). Procreation becomes an enemy of the state as a function of the population problem lies of organizations like Planned Parenthood. If it is welcomed, this is only because it expresses a desire, or indeed the intention, to have a child "at all costs", and not because it signifies the complete acceptance of the other, and therefore an openness to the richness of life, which the child represents as THE supreme gift from God. Procreation is denied on a global level and exported by the west to cultures who are blackmailed into accepting the tenets of abortion as failed contraception - the end products of a sex industry built on the criminally fraudulent lies of Alfred Kinsey and Mary Calderone. I would not, at the moment of my death, want to explain to an omnipotent, eternal, immutable, and just God as my judge why I didn't allow another human being to be born who could have spent an eternity with Him in Heaven.

The culture of death embodies consummate evil. It at all levels is the most heinous of lies told by the "father-of-lies". It serves those who have no ultimate end but their own self-gratification and pleasure to the detriment of everyone else. It is selfishness personified in that it is the result of man creating himself into the image of the devil. It worships the god in the mirror with no concern for the common good in a natural must less a supernatural sense. It infests with its tentacles the highest levels of world governments by blinding man to the fact that all legitimate laws come from God who is Ultimate Perfect Truth.

The culture of life as presented in Evangelium Vitae will have no effect on the culture of death if this encyclical is "dead on arrival" as has been the fate of so many other magnificent Church documents. What is called for is a renewal in the Church at all levels, a rediscovering of our Catholic roots and tradition from the sacred liturgy to the Truth that is Christ in the Magisterium. This, in a hierarchical context, must come from our bishops who need to show mankind that they have the courage to be signs of contradiction instead of conformation to a Godless world. It must also occur at the grass roots level by an awareness on the part of the laity that there is no such thing as a conservative, liberal, progressive, or traditional Catholic. You're either Catholic or you're not. Mortal and venial sin must be rediscovered. The real presence of Christ in Holy Eucharist must be emphasized through sound catechesis. Priests must stop giving feel-good sermonettes and be dry martyrs for the Faith in setting the example for their parishes giving unambiguous Catholic witness to the culture of life over the culture of death.

Actions speak louder than words. They must if we are to transform a culture of death that has turned evil into good into a culture of life. To quote Ralph McInerny in Crisis Jan. 1999, "the culture of death is a debased culture and relativism and nihilism are not viable philosophical options; they are the negation of reason and of the dignity of the human person." McInerny reminds us further, "The rise of philosophy was accompanied simultaneously by the rise of its dark twin, sophistry. The philosopher sought to be a wise man while the sophist was content to be a wise guy, employing language for gain, skeptical that such a thing as truth was worthwhile even if it were within reach."

The contemporary sophists go by another name today - "spin-doctors". Their battle cry is judge not lest ye be judged. They reinvent history and religion to accommodate their vices. They ask for forgiveness without repentance - an impossibility. They don't want their actions overlaid against universal moral norms to the total ignorance that our system of positive law collapses leading to anarchy. They populate an "isle of liars" with the father-of-lies their god. They must be exposed whenever and wherever they raise their ugly heads for the sake of the souls of our children, grandchildren, and us. Playing fields can no longer be conceded. Games can no longer be forfeited. We're talking about finality in its truest sense - salvation or damnation for eternity.

Yes, actions speak louder than words. It's time to BE Catholic in more than name only. It's time to call the liars, LIARS!

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