RE: Abortion-Killing: The Silent Genocide: 2 Billion Deaths Victims Worldwide.
July 12, 2023 at 5:51 am
Let me quote some parallels from Christian History, this time the Very Gradual Abolition of (Post-Birth) Infanticide. From Wiki: "The Íslendingabók, the main source for the early history of Iceland, recounts that on the Conversion of Iceland to Christianity in 1000 it was provided – in order to make the transition more palatable to Pagans – that "the old laws allowing exposure of newborn children will remain in force". However, this provision – among other concessions made at the time to the Pagans – was abolished some years later." People do not rise from decades of moral error to Moral Perfection immediately. It is a gradual and slow process, and one must be patient. Yet, as Consciences today virtually universally (those few exceptions like the Paper I mentioned notwithstanding), recognize that Infanticide is wrong, gradually Conscience, weaned off moral error by degrees, comes to accept the requirements of Moral Truth.
The article continues: "Christianity explicitly rejects infanticide. The Teachings of the Apostles or Didache said "thou shalt not kill a child by abortion, neither shalt thou slay it when born".[55] The Epistle of Barnabas stated an identical command, both thus conflating abortion and infanticide.[56]". That's correct in essence - at least Wiki gets some things right. However, those liberal Wiki editors who added this should note that there is no "conflation" - abortion and infanticide are both wrong, and unconditional acceptance of the one leads in time to accetance of the other, as we're already seeing in the modern age in that Paper I mentioned, arguing for "Post Birth Abortion" i.e. Infanticide, from the acceptance of abortion etc.
Another example: In Mexico, before the Mother of God, as Our Lady of Gaudalupe appeared to St. Juan Diego, the Mexican people, being misled to pagan or polytheistic errors, used to worship snakes and sacrifice children to these idols/gods. On Mexico, Wiki says with a source in the same article: "Bernal Díaz recounted that, after landing on the Veracruz coast, they came across a temple dedicated to Tezcatlipoca. "That day they had sacrificed two boys, cutting open their chests and offering their blood and hearts to that accursed idol".[121]" But scarcely did the Mother of God appear, and nearly some 10 MN Mexicans happily entered the Catholic Church, Christianity triumphed, and pagan idolatrous infanticide subsided.
All these are historical facts. Those who investigate them with an open mind will see the effects that did happen required a Proportionate Cause.
Of this event, a Jesuit Priest, Fr. Anticoli, S.J. wrote: ""Who will not recognize the Spirit of God in moving so many millions to enter the kingdom of Christ, and when we consider that there occurred no portent or other supernatural event ... to attract such multitudes, other than the apparitions of the Virgin [of Gaudalupe], we may state with assurance that it was the Vision of the Queen of the Apostles that called the [Mexican] Indians to the Faith." Btw, around this time, in Europe, Calvin was preaching his false doctrine of Cessationism, a false religios teaching or heresy that all Miracles had ceased with the Apostolic Age. The Mother of God refuted that opinion also, with Her Apparition in Gaudalupe, and also, those who study the Image of Guadalupe even today can see it has Miraculous Properties. It has helped even Atheistic Scientists become Catholic Christian.
Anyway, was abolishing infanticide in Iceland and Mexico a good thing? Because it happened in phases, and the Consciences of people gradually were enlightened about the Truth, and then came to recognize the necessary obligations of Conscience, would it have been better for it never to have happened at all? If saving a single life, like pulling a child out of a burning building is heroic, and this will be recognized by our Atheistic Friends, then how much greater and more heroic is it to save a 1000 or a Million lives? And if, in some concrete circumstances, out of 100 lives, it is possible to save only 90 lives, let's say because of democratic constraints and requisite consensus, it is much better to do that than do nothing.
We will be patient. Lincoln was on Abolition of Slavery, and we are Lincolnian on this issue. Consciences must change in time to recognize Truth.
The article continues: "Christianity explicitly rejects infanticide. The Teachings of the Apostles or Didache said "thou shalt not kill a child by abortion, neither shalt thou slay it when born".[55] The Epistle of Barnabas stated an identical command, both thus conflating abortion and infanticide.[56]". That's correct in essence - at least Wiki gets some things right. However, those liberal Wiki editors who added this should note that there is no "conflation" - abortion and infanticide are both wrong, and unconditional acceptance of the one leads in time to accetance of the other, as we're already seeing in the modern age in that Paper I mentioned, arguing for "Post Birth Abortion" i.e. Infanticide, from the acceptance of abortion etc.
Another example: In Mexico, before the Mother of God, as Our Lady of Gaudalupe appeared to St. Juan Diego, the Mexican people, being misled to pagan or polytheistic errors, used to worship snakes and sacrifice children to these idols/gods. On Mexico, Wiki says with a source in the same article: "Bernal Díaz recounted that, after landing on the Veracruz coast, they came across a temple dedicated to Tezcatlipoca. "That day they had sacrificed two boys, cutting open their chests and offering their blood and hearts to that accursed idol".[121]" But scarcely did the Mother of God appear, and nearly some 10 MN Mexicans happily entered the Catholic Church, Christianity triumphed, and pagan idolatrous infanticide subsided.
All these are historical facts. Those who investigate them with an open mind will see the effects that did happen required a Proportionate Cause.
Of this event, a Jesuit Priest, Fr. Anticoli, S.J. wrote: ""Who will not recognize the Spirit of God in moving so many millions to enter the kingdom of Christ, and when we consider that there occurred no portent or other supernatural event ... to attract such multitudes, other than the apparitions of the Virgin [of Gaudalupe], we may state with assurance that it was the Vision of the Queen of the Apostles that called the [Mexican] Indians to the Faith." Btw, around this time, in Europe, Calvin was preaching his false doctrine of Cessationism, a false religios teaching or heresy that all Miracles had ceased with the Apostolic Age. The Mother of God refuted that opinion also, with Her Apparition in Gaudalupe, and also, those who study the Image of Guadalupe even today can see it has Miraculous Properties. It has helped even Atheistic Scientists become Catholic Christian.
Anyway, was abolishing infanticide in Iceland and Mexico a good thing? Because it happened in phases, and the Consciences of people gradually were enlightened about the Truth, and then came to recognize the necessary obligations of Conscience, would it have been better for it never to have happened at all? If saving a single life, like pulling a child out of a burning building is heroic, and this will be recognized by our Atheistic Friends, then how much greater and more heroic is it to save a 1000 or a Million lives? And if, in some concrete circumstances, out of 100 lives, it is possible to save only 90 lives, let's say because of democratic constraints and requisite consensus, it is much better to do that than do nothing.
We will be patient. Lincoln was on Abolition of Slavery, and we are Lincolnian on this issue. Consciences must change in time to recognize Truth.
