Culture of Death - Part 5
As we look into the New Year, there will be little change in the United States’ culture promoting death. How a country that for decades passed itself off to the rest of the world as the world’s moral leader, as the world’s foremost Christian nation, and as the world’s strongest and thus most secure nation could slip down a slope where death seems to be the top choice of most of its citizens seems unfathomable.
Yet the history of nearly three decades of anti-labor politics in America (yes, this includes Bill Clinton’s terms) illustrates the growing away from religious sensitivity toward the deeply entrenched secularism in vogue today. The failure to realize the bedrock importance of the human beings who do the work of the country is the best illustration of the secularism pervading the country’s political structure - the lack of guaranteed health care, a plethora of occupational safety standards that endanger the worker’s health and life, the lack of a welfare safety net which lack encourages abortions, euthanasia, and violent crime, and the encouragement of a dog-eat-dog ethos which sets persons against persons in racing for more of the Almighty Dollar.
Fascinatingly, this all is coming to a head during the administration of a President who claims to be God’s appointed general against terrorism because, of all things, he is a born-again Christian. I suppose he thinks his orders to steal from the poor and to kill innocent women and children come from God who said, ‘whatever you do to the least of these my brethren you do unto me.’ I suppose he goes to sleep every evening with a prayer of thanksgiving that he was able to bomb Jesus in the soldiers-women-and-children of Iraq, he was able to ensure that the health industry would take even more money from Jesus in the poor of the land, and his environmental agencies were able to stop attempts to reduce pollution so that Jesus in the environment would die even more quickly.
But, of course, that is the nature of the U.S. slide into secularism and its cognate, the culture of death.
Filed under: Main on December 30th, 2007