Cardinal Meisner Quo Vadis?

Cardinal Joachim Meisner, a German cardinal on Saturday said he regretted comparing abortion to the genocides carried out by Hitler and Stalin, which sparked a public outcry here, and claimed to have been misunderstood.

Aside from the immediate politically correct emotional response I ask what is the difference between the death camps, masacares, holocausts, and the gulags of the early 20th century and abortion. We, modern society, have taken a group of human beings and dehumanized them. An honest scientist will tell you that the fetus is not part of the mother, having a unique genetic code, and so it must a being a creature of its own right. What kind of being, you ask, well it has a unique intact human genetic code just like all other humans have. In fact no creature that is not a human has a human genetic code, and since DNA is the code of life, a fetus must be a human life, a human being. And so we are stuck with the fact that human beings are being carted off like things to horrid dark places where they are injected with poison, torn limb from limb, cut to pieces, and finally burned as biological waste.

It is true that the government is not mandating that these children be killed as Hilter mandated that the Jews, Poles, Gypsies, and Handicaps be killed. Sure everyone gasps in shock over government imposed killings like Chinese forced abortions, or the mass murders those of Stalin, or Hitler, however, I argue that what is happening today is even more evil and insiduous. Its worse than one mad man and a bunch of thugs murdering 9,000,000 people over six years. Today the government does not mandate murder, it simply promotes it, it rationalizes it, and in doing so it makes murders out of a whole people. In its propaganda, united with the propaganda of big businesses like Planned Parenthood and the Contraceptive/Abortificant Drug companies, who make a fortune off of abortion and contraception, it convinces the family members of the "targeted" groups to kill these humans rather than killing them by force. It is as if Hitler convinced Jews to wipe out their own race by convincing them to kill their own Children. And it is not just the unborn, governments and Capitalist mass-market culture are convincing families the world over to kill their wives, husbands, parents, aunts, and uncles because of something called "quality of life." Germans in Wiemar Germany also cared about quality of like, struck hard by World War I and the Depression they wanted to insure their quality of life, their material happiness, they did this as we are doing today by deporting and eventually killing off vast sections of their populace that were less than human, who didn't have a good quality of life, and who were a drain on the social order. The only difference is the German people could at least claim ignorance, since the vast majority of them at least did not have a clear picture of what is happening. We KNOW, we are complicit with this evil, and that is why this evil known as abortion and euthanasia, which is really just murder, plain and simple, is not just the same its worse than the evils of Hitler and Stalin and all the rest put together.

I do however fault the Cardinal, a Christian ought to be a source of contradiction, he ought to make people feel uncomfortable, and challenge them to accept the truth and to live by it, even when its hard. The Cardinal did all this, but then when he was about to be crucified for it he got down off of that cross. I hope the Cardinal contemplates what it would have meant if Jesus got off the Cross, and next time considers the famous question Quo Vadis?