What to Eliminate is the Question

He who denies that human life begins with conception does not need to contend with religion, but science. To deny this certainty of biology is not to express a lack of faith, but a lack of basic knowledge of human genetics, something that is even known by the general public.

Vaccine Brew - Cocktail Recipes

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Vaccine Ingredients

In a compulsory inoculation program, it is the responsibility of the developers, promoters and enforcers to prove safety and efficacy

a representative sample
Vaccine	Manufacturer	Microbes	Antibiotics	Chemicals / Heavy Metals	Animal ByProducts
Acel-Immune DTaP diphtheria - tetanus - pertussis	Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556	diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed		formaldehyde, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80)	gelatin
Act HIB Haemophilus influenza Type B	Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463	Haemophilus influenza Type B, polyribosylribitol phosphate		ammonium sulfate, formalin, and sucrose
Attenuvax measles	Merck & Co., Inc. 800-672-6372	measles live virus	neomycin	sorbitol	hydrolized gelatin, chick embryo
Biavax rubella	Merck & Co., Inc. 800-672-6372	rubella live virus	neomycin	sorbitol	hydrolized gelatin, human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue
BioThrax anthrax adsorbed	BioPort Corporation 517.327.1500	nonencapsulated strain of Bacillus anthracis		aluminum hydroxide, benzethonium chloride, and formaldehyde
DPT diphtheria - tetanus - pertussis	GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 X 5231	diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed		formaldehyde, aluminum phosphate, ammonium sulfate, and thimerosal	washed sheep RBCs
Dryvax smallpox (not licensed d/t expiration)	Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556	live vaccinia virus, with "some microbial contaminants," according to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense	polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate	glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar	vesicle fluid from calf skins
Engerix-B recombinant hepatitis B	GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 X 5231	genetic sequence of the hepatitis B virus that codes for the surface antigen (HbSAg), cloned into GMO yeast		aluminum hydroxide, and thimerosal
Fluvirin	Medeva Pharmaceuticals 888.MEDEVA 716.274.5300	influenza virus	neomycin, polymyxin	beta-propiolactone	chick embryonic fluid
FluShield	Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556	trivalent influenza virus, types A&B	gentamicin sulphate	formadehyde, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80)	chick embryonic fluid
Havrix hepatitis A	GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 X 5231	hepatitis A virus		formalin, aluminum hydroxide, 2-phenoxyethanol, and polysorbate 20	residual MRC5 proteins -human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue
HiB Titer Haemophilus influenza Type B	Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556	Haemophilus influenza Type B, polyribosylribitol phosphate, yeast		ammonium sulfate, thimerosal, and chemically defined yeast-based medium
Imovax	Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463	rabies virus adsorbed	neomycin sulfate	phenol red indicator	human albumin, human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue
IPOL	Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463	3 types of polio viruses	neomycin, streptomycin, and polymyxin B	formaldehyde, and 2-phenoxyethenol	continuous line of monkey kidney cells
JE-VAX Japanese encephalitis	Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE	Nakayama-NIH strain of Japanese encephalitis virus, inactivated		formaldehyde, polysorbate 80 (Tween-80), and thimerosal	mouse serum proteins, and gelatin
LYMErix lyme	GlaxoSmithKline 888-825-5249	recombinant protein (OspA) from the outer surface of the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi	kanamycin	aluminum hydroxide, 2-phenoxyethenol, phosphate buffered saline
MMR measles - mumps - rubella	Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372	measles, mumps, rubella live virus	neomycin	sorbitol	hydrolized gelatin, chick embryonic fluid, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue
M-R-Vax measles - rubella	Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372	measles, rubella live virus	neomycin	sorbitol	hydrolized gelatin, chick embryonic fluid, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue
Menomune meningococcal	Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463	freeze-dried polysaccharide antigens from Neisseria meningitidis bacteria		thimerosal	lactose
Meruvax I mumps	Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372	mumps live virus	neomycin	sorbitol	hydrolized gelatin
NYVAC (new smallpox batch, not licensed)	Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE	highly attenuated vaccinia virus	polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate	glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar	vesicle fluid from calf skins
Orimune oral polio	Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556	3 types of polio viruses, attenuated	neomycin, streptomycin	sorbitol	monkey kidney cells and calf serum
Pneumovax Streptococcus pneumoniae	Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372	capsular polysaccharides from polyvalent (23 types) pneumococcal bacteria		phenol
Prevnar Pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine	Wyeth Lederle 800.934.5556	saccharides from capsular Streptococcus pneumoniae antigens (7 serotypes) individually conjugated to diphtheria CRM 197 protein		aluminum phosphate, ammonium sulfate, soy protein, yeast
ProQuad measles, mumps, rubella and varicella	Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372	live measles (Enders' attenuated Edmonston), mumps (Jeryl LynnTM), rubella (Wistar RA 27/3), and varicella (oka/Merck) strains of viruses	neomycin	monosodium L-glutamate (MSG), potassium chloride, potassium phosphate monobasic, potassium phosphate dibasic, sodium bicarbonate, sodium phosphate dibasic, sorbitol, and sucrose	human albumin, human diploid cells, residual components of MRC-5 cells including DNA and proteins, bovine serum, hydrolized gelatin, and chicken embryo
RabAvert rabies	Chiron Behring GmbH & Company 510.655.8729	fixed-virus strain Flury LEP	neomycin, chlortetracycline, and amphotericin B	potassium glutamate, and sucrose	human albumin, bovine gelatin and serum "from source countries known to be free of bovine spongioform encephalopathy," and chicken protein
Rabies Vaccine Adsorbed	GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 X 5231	rabies virus adsorbed		beta-propiolactone, aluminum phosphate, thimerosal, and phenol red	rhesus monkey fetal lung cells
Recombivax recombinant hepatitis B	Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372	genetic sequence of the hepatitis B virus that codes for the surface antigen (HbSAg), cloned into GMO yeast		aluminum hydroxide, and thimerosal
RotaShield oral tetravalent rotavirus (recalled)	Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556	1 rhesus monkey rotavirus, 3 rhesus-human reassortant live viruses	neomycin sulfate, amphotericin B	potassium monophosphate, potassium diphosphate, sucrose, and monosodium glutamate (MSG)	rhesus monkey fetal diploid cells, and bovine fetal serum
smallpox (not licensed due to expiration) 40-yr old stuff "found" in Swiftwater, PA freezer	Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE	live vaccinia virus, with "some microbial contaminants," according to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense	polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate	glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar	vesicle fluid from calf skins
smallpox (new, not licensed)	Acambis, Inc. 617.494.1339 in partnership with Baxter BioScience	highly attenuated vaccinia virus	polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate	glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar	vesicle fluid from calf skins
TheraCys BCG (intravesicle -not licensed in US for tuberculosis)	Aventis Pasteur USA USA 800.VACCINE	live attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis		monosodium glutamate (MSG), and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80)
Tripedia diphtheria - tetanus - pertussis	Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE	Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Clostridium tetani toxoids and acellular Bordetella pertussis adsorbed		aluminum potassium sulfate, formaldehyde, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80)	gelatin, bovine extract US sourced
Typhim Vi typhoid	Aventis Pasteur USA SA 800.VACCINE	cell surface Vi polysaccharide from Salmonella typhi Ty2 strain		aspartame, phenol, and polydimethylsiloxane (silicone)
Varivax chickenpox	Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372	varicella live virus	neomycin	phosphate, sucrose, and monosodium glutamate (MSG)	processed gelatin, fetal bovine serum, guinea pig embryo cells, albumin from human blood, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue
YF-VAX yellow fever	Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE	17D strain of yellow fever virus		sorbitol	chick embryo, and gelatin

Disclaimer / Investigate: The intent of this website is to raise awareness about the controversial aspects of vaccination. Many vaccines still contain thimerosal (49.6% ethylmercury by weight.) While mercury is a highly toxic element second only to radioactive plutonium, when combined with other ingredients, specifically aluminum and formaldehyde, the synergistic effects increase 10,000-fold. Individuals who suffer from chronic mercury exposure will have a unique expression of symptoms. This presentation is not to be construed as medical or legal advice: locate and confer with a trusted physician and lawyer.

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Contraception Deception

"Modern man has divorced sex from procreation through his embrace of contraception. This Contraception Deception within the Catholic Church has come about by a near total betrayal of the faithful by their shepherds and leaders."

<http://www.realcath olictv.com/ cia/07contracept ion>

http://youtu. be/RbKAlpbzASU

Each of Us . . .

"We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution.
Each of us is the result of a thought of God.
Each of us is willed,
Each of us is loved,
Each of us is necessary." 

Pope Benedict XVI

Danger of a Pro-Choice World

A few weeks ago, I told you that there are an estimated 160 missing Asian women: missing because they were never born.   SOURCE: LifeNews.com


These women, victims of sex-selection abortion, are the subject of a new book by Mara Hvistendahl. Hvistendahl begins with what Paul Ehrlich famously called the “Population Bomb” and the population-control movement of the 1960s and 70s. Would-be population controllers discovered that people’s desire for a son was a major impediment to their efforts: Throughout the developing world, especially in Asia, women kept having children until they had a boy.

Thus, as Hvistendahl tells us, “proponents of population control began talking about” sex selection. Ehrlich wrote in The Population Bomb that “if a simple method could be found to guarantee that first-born children were males . . . then population control problems in many areas would be somewhat eased.”

Well, it wasn’t long before western money and technical know-how provided the “simple method” — amniocentesis, followed by abortion. Doctors, first in India, and then throughout Asia, learned how to use the combination to ensure people had a son the first time. And their teachers were groups like the Rockefeller Foundation and the United Nations Family Planning Agency, UNFPA.

The population controllers insisted that the need to curb population growth was so great, that “the drawbacks of a skewed sex ratio” would have to be tolerated. Boy, were they wrong. By 2020 an estimated 20 percent of all Chinese men “will lack a female counterpart.” And as I told you, this lack of women has fueled a growing sex trade in Asia.

Given what Hvistendahl calls the “tragic results” of the “Western advocacy of sex selection,” you would expect her to be angry, and she is. But get this: She’s angry at pro-lifers! Because they dare to cite her research to make the connection between Asia’s missing women and “abortion rights” advocacy.

She has criticized New York Times columnist Ross Douthat for pointing out that it is difficult for supporters of abortion-on-demand to then insist that abortion not be used for sex selection. She laments the “bind” in which Planned Parenthood and United Nations now find themselves.

It’s hard to imagine a clearer example of the blinding power of a false worldview. Having documented the role of abortion-on-demand in wiping 160 million women out of existence, Hvistendahl takes offense when people suggest that abortion on demand may not be such a good thing after all.
Incredible, but a classic example of the post-modern impasse. In a society that worships self-autonomy over all else, when we get what we want, we discover we can’t live with it.

For years I’ve taught how important it is that we embrace a worldview that comports to reality; how important it is that we test the validity of any worldview. Push a worldview to its logical conclusions, and if you can live with those conclusions, well, the worldview proves to be rational.

But one thing is very clear: pro-choicers, entire societies — and at least 160 million would-have-been women — cannot live with the logical conclusions of a worldview that values choice over human life, therefore proves to be irrational or false.

What It Means to Be Pro-Life (aQ&A)

You asked:

And this is my response.

What It Means To Be Pro-Life

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. - Mother Teresa

I wonder, since I haven’t done anything to deliberately invite such a message, if you’re one of the pro-abortion advocates who periodically messages any and all pro-lifers on Tumblr to draw them into pointless arguments and successively nasty messages. It doesn’t really matter, but I did wonder. I hope you’re not.

Whatever your motivation, you should know I’ve given a great deal of thought to your questions. I’ve heard them before, and will likely hear them again, so I’ve had ample time to consider my position and why I am confident it is both true and just. Therefore, I will answer your questions thoroughly, which is why this is going to be a bit long. Please click the read more link.

[Also, I should probably mention: TRIGGER WARNING for rape.]
Perhaps you’ve heard the following arguments before, perhaps not, but I want to be thorough. I’ll make some general points first, and then, with the necessary underpinnings established, address your individual questions.

Life is the right of every child, not a special privilege for the fortunate, the planned, and the perfect. - Catholic Life Guard

I am pro-life for one simple reason: Abortion is murder. But we should examine what that statement means, because this is not, as some abortionists want to claim, a “side” issue or red herring. It is the issue. If it were not, there wouldn’t be any debate at all. As it is, there are only two options:

Abortion either takes a human life or it does not. If not, then abortion should be no different from plastic surgery. If it does, then abortion is prenatal murder. - Joe Healy

There are many kinds of killing. We kill animals for food, enemies in war, and attackers in self-defense. Depending on the circumstances, all of these are moral reasons to kill. Murder is the one type of killing specifically condemned by traditional morality and civil law, because murder is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. The universal condemnation of murder rests on two principles: life is the ultimate good, indeed the first good on which all others are based, and human life is worth protecting. Murder is therefore intrinsically wrong, which means it is wrong everywhere, all the time, no matter what. It is a violation.

The unborn children of human beings are also human beings. “Unborn” doesn’t mean “potential.” It means child-inside-the-womb. Despite common interpretation of the popular idiom, when a woman is pregnant she isn’t “going” to have a baby. She has a baby. She is “going to have a baby” in the sense that “this baby will come out of the womb in 9 months.” This is an undeniable biological fact. Therefore, the most aware and consistent pro-abortion arguments try to argue that unborn children are not “persons” and therefore not deserving of the full protection of the law. This is a “slippery slope” argument that leads to the likes of Peter Singer defending the enforced murder of handicapped persons and debating whether a sleeping person still counts as as a “person.” This is a sick and twisted worldview in which personhood is reduced the ability of an individual to be a consumer. Life, humanity, and logic have no place in such a philosophy.

It is also worth noting that whenever the word “person” is redefined in history, it is always to the advantage of a group that wants to take away someone else’s rights. For slave owners, people with non-white skin weren’t persons. For Nazis, Jews weren’t persons. General culture and medical textbooks alike recognized the humanity and personhood of unborn human beings until, in the furor after Rove v. Wade, it became legally and politically incorrect to do so. Even the Hippocratic Oath required doctors to refuse to perform abortions.

The burden of proof is on the woman or man who wants to murder a child. They must prove that the dismemberment and death of the genetically distinct, growing organism in the mother’s womb, the natural result of sexual intercourse, has no humanity worth protecting.
No one has “proven” that because it cannot be proven.

You probably radically disagree with me so far. Very well. But for the sake of fair argumentation, briefly suspend your disbelief and follow me to the logical conclusion of these premises: that an unborn child is just as much of a human being worth protecting as an infant, toddler, kindergartner, teenager, and adult. I ask you: What “reason” can possibly justify taking that person’s life? It is their life, not yours. You do not have the power to make that “choice.” 

Ah, you’ll say, but minors can’t legally make decisions for themselves, their parents must. Exactly. And what law would exonerate or praise a parent for ripping apart their infant, toddler, or teenager? For scalding them to death with chemicals? This is as brutal as it sounds. Those are the methods of abortion, which cause very real pain for the unborn child in his or her last moments of life.

No law or person would praise a parent for such a crime, as the recent case of Casey Anthony shows. Yet if Casey Anthony had had an abortion, it would not have been news. She would just be considered one of the millions of “enlightened” people who believe that the more helpless a child is, the more permissible it is to take that child’s life.

You asked, “Why do you think that women should be forced through pregnancy and childbirth against their will?”
The answer is, I don’t. Sex leads to babies. That is its biological purpose. Babies are a natural consequence of sex. Any educated woman knows this and therefore by freely engaging in sex risks pregnancy. But there’s birth control, you’ll argue. Yes, there is. And any educated women knows that all birth control is fallible. It will fail. It’s just a matter of time. The only 100% way to not get pregnant or an STD is abstinence.

But there’s rape, you’ll say. What about women who are impregnated through rape?
I hope you’re reading very, very closely and paying strict attention, because next to the statement that abortion is murder, this is the single most heartfelt and true thing I can tell you: There is a special circle of hell reserved for rapists. Prison is too lenient for them, death too good, annihilation too clean. I hope and pray that rapists spend an eternity experiencing the inexpressible horror they put innocent people through. And make no mistake, all victims of rape are innocent. No one is ever, ever, “asking for it,” despite what our rape culture tells you. No one deserves to be victimized that way. No one deserves the consequences of being raped.
And that includes the innocent children conceived in rape.

To say this is an unpopular opinion is to make the understatement of the decade. I am aware of this. But popularity does not determine truth. Why, well-meaning people ask in horror, should the poor woman be forced to suffer any more? There is only one legitimate response. Why does one crime justify another? It’s a cliché because it’s true: two wrongs don’t make a right. Rape does not justify murder. (This does not, as I made clear above by defining “killing” and “murder,” include circumstances of self-defense.)

You said, “Just because a woman happens to be pregnant doesn’t mean that she’s mature or responsible enough to care for the fetus growing inside of her. And do you really want an immature, irresponsible woman to eventually be trusted with the life of a child, after it’s born?” What about child abuse?

I agree. Becoming a mother does not automatically make a woman a capable or qualified caregiver. But since an unborn child is still a child, being pregnant means a woman is a mother, whether she likes it or not. Her decisions affect the life of her child from the moment of its conception. Some mothers play Mozart, read books out loud, and tell their child how much he or she is loved. Some mothers drink until the baby is born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. And some mothers murder their children, inside or outside the womb.

This is tragic. All child abuse is tragic. It’s incomprehensible to me that pro-lifers must work to prove how much we recognize this. The premise of the pro-life position is not “any life is better than none.” The premise of the pro-life position is the right to life applies to all human beings. Only once a human being has that right guaranteed is it possible to talk about and secure quality of life. Which we must, and do.

I see lots of talk on Tumblr about how people would take the pro-life position more seriously if pro-lifers did more than just try to close abortion centers: if they worked to improve the adoption system, to secure safe and loving homes for children, to end child abuse, to support pregnant mothers, to offer alternatives to abortion, to provide love and sympathy, to end rape and rape culture.  

And I agree. Being pro-life doesn’t stop at opposing the murder of children. It means working to improve, to make possible, a good quality of life for mothers, children, and fathers. It means loving your neighbor as yourself, treating those in need as we ourselves would want to be treated. It means going into battle every day against human rights abuses and fighting with prayer, words, education, and legal action. It means understanding that life is sacred and must be treated as such. We don’t do this because we want to be cool, or popular, or liked, or loved, or powerful. Doing this prevents us from being any of those things. We do it because it is the only possible moral action in a world drunk on death and violence, a world that glorifies selfishness as truth and tolerance as agreement, a world that worships anarchy in the name of freedom.

You said, “Sometimes death is preferable to life,” and “That’s why people kill themselves, and that’s why abortions are necessary: because not all lives are worth living.” You also said, it’s not true that “with Jesus, life is always worth living,” and,“simply believing in Christ won’t solve your problems, especially if those problems are psychological.” These claims, and therefore their answers, are intertwined, so I will address them as such.

The only part of that with which I will categorically disagree is your disagreement that life isn’t always worth living, even with Jesus. The reason for that should become clear shortly.

“Not all lives are worth living” can be a true statement, but that does not justify an immoral, intrinsically wrong action, such as murder. When that statement is true, it’s not because life itself is not valuable. Lives are what people make of them, and people, being fallen and fallible, sometimes make horrible choices. Some people bring misery on themselves and others have it forced on them, but there is no such thing as a private sin. My evil affects you just as yours affects me. Your misery is mine and mine is yours. The pursuit of happiness, of lives worth living, is and must always be a social pursuit. Which is why it is completely false to claim that no one can legislate morality. Of course we can. We must. We do it all the time.

I’m sure you’ve heard this before:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Life is not listed first by accident. Without the absolute, secure, guaranteed right to life, we cannot exercise liberty or pursue happiness. Parents who get abortions and the “doctors” who perform them make value judgments about the life of the child they kill. But it is not their life to make that decision about, as discussed above.

Perhaps you’re familiar with the Star Trek: Next Generation episode “The Masterpiece Society.” The Enterprise encounters a society crafted to “perfection” by genetic engineering. Geordi La Forge, the brilliant engineer of the Enterprise, was born blind. He wears a special VISOR to mimic sight. Ironically, it turns out that the technology in his VISOR is what will save that “perfect” planet from impending doom. Consider these two dialogues:

Geordi: Oh, that’s perfect.
Hannah Bates: What?
Geordi: If the answer to all of this is in a VISOR created for a blind man who never would have existed in your society. No offense intended. 

And:

Geordi: So - guess if I had been conceived on your world, I wouldn’t even be here now, would I?
Hannah Bates: No.
Geordi: No. I’d have been… terminated, as a fertilized cell.
Hannah Bates: It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life with disabilities.
Geordi: Who gave them the right to decide whether or not I should be here? Whether or not I might have something to contribute?  

(It doesn’t matter whether the writers of the episode deliberately meant to oppose abortion or not. The point stands.)

As far as your last clause goes, you’re partially right. Believing in Christ doesn’t necessarily solve your problems, especially medical problems like blindness or mental illness. But it is categorically unprovable (and ignorant) to claim absolutely that having faith in Jesus Christ can’t, doesn’t, or won’t “solve your problems.” For one thing, it depends on what kind of “problems” we’re talking about.

In order to understand where I’m coming from, a few clarifications need to be made. Having faith in Christ does not mean, as some of those “devout fundamentalists” you mentioned sometimes like to claim, simply expressing that one has faith and then expecting smooth sailing until death. Having faith in Christ is a way of life, often a difficult way of life. The word “Christian” means “little Christ,” and the world loves us as it loved Him: to death. In other words, the point of believing is to become sanctified, to become like Christ: to have faith as He did, to do good works as He did, to enter heaven like He did. People who convert to Christianity and truly begin to live the life of a Christian often find that many of their problems lessen or disappear: their marriages improve, they’re happier, they feel as if their lives has meaning and purpose. Which they do, as do all lives, whether the person living it realizes it or not, because Christ is the author of Life and made Himself, True Happiness, its point and purpose. This doesn’t mean that Christians with medical problems such as mental illness, which I’m assuming is what you meant by psychological problems, necessarily instantly recover upon conversion, though miracles have happened and continue to. One of my good friends is a devout Catholic who suffers from depression. What it does mean is that, for the Christian who truly understands what it means to follow Christ, yes, in fact, with Jesus life is always worth living, because it is love that makes life worth living, and Jesus Christ is the author of Love. It is His very essence.
Following from that, as a Catholic, in a limited respect I do agree with your first statement, that sometimes death is preferable to life. Take martyrdom for example. Martyrdom, in its original, technical sense, is what happens when a Christian dies defending their faith, usually for refusing to denounce Christ. It was quite popular back in the day when Christianity was novel and illegal, and I suspect it will be again in the future, since true Christianity is still novel and quite likely to be illegal again. Martyrdom was both feared and desired by Christians because to be a perfect Christian means to imitate Christ, and the model of action he gave us to imitate is cruciform love, that is, love that goes the way of the cross:

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13.)

The reward for living the Way, Truth, and Life which is Christ is eternal bliss in Heaven. Let me put it another way:


So, yes, in a sense, death is sometimes preferable to life, if by death you mean “separation of the soul from the body,” that necessary rite of passage to enter heaven. Because human beings are immortal, as any Christian who knows their Bible can tell you: all persons will live forever. Souls are immortal. Bodies will be resurrected. Life is everlasting. Those who choose suicide are seeking not death, but annihilation. And yes, if by death you mean self-sacrifice for a greater good, of which Christ and the martyrs are the preeminent example (and, to continue fictional analogies, Spock and Harry Potter are also good examples.) In short, death is preferable to life when death serves life. But sacrificing others for the “greater good” or for one’s own selfish motives does not serve life. Sacrificing others means treating people as things, which the origin of most sins and the source of every human rights violation. Including abortion.

Lastly: You make suicide sound like a legitimate option, but it is not. It is a tragedy. It is a failure of love. The martyr dies for love; the suicide dies for lack of it. They are opposed morally and eternally. One is selfish, and the other is selfless. It needs to be very clear at this point that I am not blaming those who commit suicide or the people close to them for the tragedy of suicide. Finding out who is at “fault” for a suicide may be necessary and ultimately beneficial in individual cases, but it is not my place to make sweeping generalizations about the state of the souls or consciences involved and I would not dream of doing so. This is the meaning of Matthew 7:1, “Judge not, that you may not be judged.” What I am doing by describing the nature of the act of suicide is challenging your implied assertion that suicide is a good and necessary form of death, like abortion. Suicide, like abortion, is an act of murder. Like abortion, suicide is a tragic act that love, education, and quality of life can and should prevent. And making that love, education, and quality of life available to prevent the murder of others and self is what being pro-life is all about.

In conclusion: I’ve argued that being pro-life, like being a follower of Christ, is an all-encompassing way of life based on absolute, knowable, moral truths about the value and meaning of human life. Therefore the pro-life position, properly understood and lived out, does not deserve the infamy its mudslinging opposition preaches. We are pro-life because abortion is murder and we will not be complicit in, silent about, or supportive of, infanticide.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, born and unborn.

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SOURCE: I found this Question and Response @ http://badwolfcomplex.tumblr.com/post/7743006345

Obama’s Obsession with Sexual Orientation

By Austin Ruse @ CT

A few weeks ago, Malawi’s Ambassador to the United Nations said privately that the Obama administration had threatened to withhold $350 million in aid unless Malawi’s government struck down its laws on sodomy. Let’s take a look at tiny Malawi*. According to the CIA World Fact Book, among Malawi’s roughly 16-million inhabitants, the life expectancy is a paltry 5I.7 years, which turns to be the 211th lowest life expectancy in the world. Malawi has the eleventh highest infant mortality rate in the world. And 44 percent of the population does not have safe sanitation, meaning they very well might be peeing where they drink.  Malawi is also among the poorest countries in the world. A $350-million aid package goes a long way there, yet here are President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holding Malawi hostage to the new U.S. homosexual agenda. Make sodomy legal or your people can twist in the wind.  Malawi did not exactly arrive at its sodomy laws through a fatwa. It is 82% Christian and a multi-party democracy with a bi-cameral legislature ( bi-cameral: the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers) and judicial review.  Within days, its government committed to changing Malawi’s sodomy laws. Obama the Bully hailed this as a great victory. Yes, you can usually get your way by threatening the world’s poorest people. This is just a small and shocking measure of how the LGBT agenda has come to dominate at least part of our young president’s foreign policy.  On June 21 our U. N. Ambassador, Susan Rice, rose in the General Assembly to congratulate Ban Ki-Moon for reelection as Secretary General. In her short speech she thanked him for insisting on “recognizing that lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender rights are, simply, human rights.” No other ambassador made such a reference.  One incensed ambassador wondered if she was under instructions from President Obama reaching out to his N. Y. homosexual constituency. He said, “In that solemn atmosphere the reference to LGBT sounded very strange, if not totally out of place or even something of bad taste.” He pointed out that Rice did not even mention the Millennium Development Goals**, a sign of where the administration’s heart really lies.   ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ * A landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size is over 118,000 km2 (45,560 sq mi). ** Millennium Development Goals  Summit on the Millennium Development Goals 20-22 September 2010 The UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals concluded with the adoption of a global action plan to achieve the eight anti-poverty goals by their 2015 target date and the announcement of major new commitments for women's and children's health and other initiatives against poverty, hunger and disease. Visit the Summit website!