Something to Remember on this D-Day

This is from Fr. John Corapi's latest newsletter via Lifesite News. Before becoming a priest, Fr. Corapi worked in Hollywood and experienced all that lifestyle entails. Here is his latest take on what is happening in this country. (Emphasis, mine.)

All evil can claim its ultimate origin in moral evil. Those that deny objective standards of morality merely facilitate the demise of their society. That apparently large numbers of people seem to be intellectually and morally numb is not news, but the near light-speed evaporation of our way of life is.

Personal liberty has already begun to be compromised. Various governments, including the United States, now own car companies like General Motors and Chrysler, mega insurance companies, soon perhaps health care and energy. Injustice is beginning to be seen from the smallest of individuals to the largest of corporations. The only problem with that is that governments have never been able to operate anything profitably, efficiently, or equitably. The little guy and the large corporation will all be equal opportunity recipients of heavy-handed injustice very soon.

The government is about to dictate what car you can drive, how you insure it, what your bank can pay you or not, what kind of heating you have in your home, if you can have air conditioning or not. And, oh, if you eat a Twinkie your health insurance premium is going up. If you get sick, perhaps the Twinkie did it, and you aren't covered.

Nothing will ultimately go well for the United States or any other country until the injustice of all injustices is remedied. Until every human being is respected and reverenced, from the moment of conception to the last moment of natural life, no one will be safe and secure.

Whether it is the helpless infant in the womb or the misguided and/or evil abortionist on the wrong end of a bullet, all deserve the safety and security of the law. Only God can in justice and wisdom decide when life begins and when life ends. When we attempt to usurp God's job description we always come up short.

The freedoms that our ancestors fought and died for are being eroded by our duly elected government. This is happening because we think that anyone who does not have what we as a society judge to be a "quality of life" should not be allowed to continue to live. Of course, we couch it in euphemisms meant to show how modern and enlightened we are, but the result is the same. We want to be God, with the power to decide who works and who does not, who gets medical care and who does not, who lives and who dies.

Religion is seen as an unnecessary restriction on personal freedom and not as the keeper of human rights for all people, regardless of their prospective economic value to society.

As Fr. Corapi said, a society that does not recognize basic human rights will not survive. The only consistent protector of those values regardless of economic, political and cultural changes for the last 2000 years has been the Church. In spite of corruption within its own ranks, the Church has, through its teachings, consistently stood for the basic human rights of all people, born and unborn, young and old, rich and poor, for 20 centuries. We forget that to our own peril. If the Church were to disappear, we would have to invent her anew.

Freedom and civilization always come at a personal price. There must be "rules". That is how a society survives. To have the majority of a culture openly rebel in their attitudes, opinions and behavior, against long held cultural norms, is to perpetuate the disintegration of that culture.