In
the wild, when an animal dies, flies come and lay eggs upon the carcass. The
larvae (maggots) from those hatched eggs eat the flesh of the dead animal.
Hyenas come and work at eating the remains as well, and buzzards circle
overhead and land to get a piece of the action. Eventually dry bones are left
to ultimately be worn to dust which becomes part of the soil from which plants
grow. Those plants get eaten by animals who ultimately die etc…etc…
Nothing
is wrong with this process. It is natural. So too when a human dies, his body
returns to the natural “dust” whether quickly into the earth or very slowly in
a sealed tomb. There is nothing evil about this happening, despite all our
attempts to prevent it from happening or from having to watch it happen.
Where
evil comes in is where we interrupt the man’s life by unlawfully killing him.
This
is where the Supreme Court of the United States has come in to rule that some
killings are not in themselves evil. Capital punishment for certain crimes is
lawful, so increasingly is assisted suicide in many places and situations, and
so too is abortion, if the woman so chooses, without regard to any rights to
continued life which the baby within her might have. Now since the law allows
this, the law is now being asked to decide what may or may not happen with its
corpse after death. May body parts be sold for scientific use and is there some
kind of “morality” involved in what can be done with these parts?
Certainly
Hitler and the Nazis thought it was "moral" to make lampshades out of
the skin and rugs out of the hair and jewelry out of the bones and teeth of
exterminated Jews after they determined that a Jew was not a fully human
person.
It
seems the door was opened when the law determined that the life of a person can
be taken “for sufficient reason”. The law no longer says that blacks , native
Americans, women and minorities are less than full persons who cannot be owned
or used by others to their own advantage; but has failed to extend those rights
to the unborn child.
It
is most disconcerting to realize that a majority of the public are horrified by
the profitable distribution of aborted fetus parts, yet feel quite comfortable
with Planned Parenthood and with the Supreme Court’s decisions to grant
“personhood” to corporations, yet deny it to future children.
A
person is not determined to be such by its exterior, but by its interior. Its
interior includes the God given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. A person has these rights from conception, not from when they reach the
age of being able to defend themselves, nor from birth. As the person is sacred,
so to are these rights.
As
from the earliest written Gospel , Mark, in Jesus' keynote address: "The
present moment is the right time, change the way you think for the Kingdom of
God is WITHIN you. Believe this good news."[Mk.1:15-16]
It’s
time for the USA to "change the way it thinks."
Charlie Mc
Charlie Mc
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