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Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:38:44 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [LIFE-LIBERTY-SECURITY] Culture of Life/Culture of Death...your
choice
Saturday night's "partying with the citizens" gives rise to Sunday
night's analysis of hate as a path to salvation. How often does one hear a
tele-evangelist quote John 12:25? "He that loveth his life shall lose it;
and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life
eternal". This enigmatic saying is explained by understanding why it is
acceptable to hate the way of life which is found in this world. As the
lyrics from Canadian balladeer, Leonard Cohen, remind us: "Everybody knows
the dice were loaded; Everybody knows the game was rigged; Everybody knows
the good guys lost." Early Cohen music ca. 1970 dealt with the theme of
Christian martyrdom and contained lyrics like "God is alive, magic is
afoot...." To further understand the Gospel picture on hate, we read
elewhere among the sayings of Jesus Christ that you will be hated more
than any other people and more than any other nation for adhering to a
lifestyle in service to God. Hating and persecuting those who advocate and
practice virtue as a complete way of life, a "culture of life" if you
will, is the norm and dominant ethos of this planet.
And there we have enough of a backgrounder to understand why a "culture of
life" has not been articulated in North America despite both pope and
president using that phrase in their speeches (after it was coined in Life
Gazette journalism); despite the US Congress shoring up the "nation under
God pledge" and the "in God we trust" slogan with legislation; despite
a Canada by Constitution which is "founded upon principles that recognize
the supremacy of God". Even accepting that the word "God" has a number of
Webster's definitions and even atheists can relate to this word as meaning
"One's highest ideals", one still does not find enthusiasm for spelling
out a Culture X according to those highest ideals. The "protecting
creation" campaign can issue a "What would Jesus drive?" slogan but dares
not go on with this exercise to articulate a complete way of life from
individual to the complete society, of which Jesus would approve.
There is something profoundly and fundamentally evil about the nature of
life on this planet which is analyzed correctly in the Gospels, and
given poetic expression in Milton's seventeenth century classic, "Paradise
Lost". But a modernized version of "Paradise Regained" is needed to
provide a global cure to terrorism. As one Congressman has noted, what is
there to stop a determined terrorist from bringing an atom bomb up the
Potomac in the hold of a ship? The will finds the way. How many millions
and billions of people in this world feel utterly God-forsaken and would
certainly ignite the spark, given the powder to blow it to hell. An
occasional bout of feeling despair of the magnitude of "God-forsaken" is
probably the norm in North America. Personal traumas, loss of loved ones,
major illnesses etc. afflict most of us and I am no exception. But what of
those 32,000 children who die every day on "Planet Hell" according to the
repeated CTV ads? They die by being deprived of the necessities of life,
ie food, shelter, health care and clothing even while the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights says these amenities are their right. How much
God-forsaken despair is generated daily around those 32,000 lives?
There we have a source of terrorists by the millions for generations to
come; the will finds the way.
The remedy is straight forward and obvious. A "culture of life", a "city
of life" by whatever name, can be designed and built here in North America
and tailored to suit the conditions of various countries in the world.
That has been my daily message online since 1995 and it has fallen on deaf
ears. A world which has chosen a "culture of death" for itself can only
reap what it has sown.
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"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person...." (Canadian
Constitution, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Part I:7). What does this
"Life-Liberty-Security Clause" mean?
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