I recall one time an essay from an Historian of life in Ancient Rome. A day in the life of a Pagan Roman waking up for an average day before the time of Christ. The first thing he/she would have heard on going out the front door was the sound of babies crying and dying from all around them. Why? Because any baby born in any way deformed or unwanted would have been left out to die. So the First sound in ancient pagan Rome would have been the sound of dying babies, first thing in the morning. Well thank goodness we are better than that. We no loner have to listen to babies being killed. All that and Euthanasia is done in private.
I felt sick watching this but it makes the point very powerfully. Rather like that Dean of St Patrick's Protestant Cathedral in Dublin, his name escapes me, who wrote about the poor of Ireland eating their young as a potential solution to their hunger. There is a name too for this literary device which also escapes me.
It was the same thing with abortion. When it was first introduced it was only supposed to be for very special and unusual circumstances. Then it spread and spread until the allowed it for partial birth. But with Euthanasia it appears to be spreading at the speed of light. It is astonishing really. As though the floodgates of all hell had opened. The reason why it is going so far in Canada is it is a test ground for the Globalist Luciferian elites, the Satanic crew who rule the planet. If they can sell this stuff in Canada they can sell it anywhere. The thing is when you start to go down this road there is a huge list of people that could added. Long term prisoners for instance. Especially political prisoners. The mentally and physically disabled. The elderly. The list is endless.
Jonathan Swift. I don't remember the literary term but he meant it as bitter satire against the English.
Juvenalian satire tends to be more bitter and dark, expressing anger and outrage at the state of the world. A famous example of Juvenalian satire is by another eighteenth-century writer, Jonathan Swift. A Modest Proposal is a prose pamphlet that initially appears to be a serious, well-intentioned attempt to suggest a solution to what was a major problem at the time: the impoverished state of Ireland, due in no small part to absentee English landlords who owned a lot of Irish land but re-invested very little of their profits back into the Irish economy. As the narrator begins to explain his plan to invigorate the Irish economy andmake all the poor Irish families “useful” again, however, the reader slowly begins to see that the narrator’s proposal is actually for Irish women to sell their babies to be eaten by their Anglo-Irish landlords. A Modest Proposal is thus an angry denunciation, not just of the rapaciousness of the English landlords and their lack of care for their Irish tenants, but also of the kind of bureaucratic mindset that becomes so enamored with its own problem-solving that it forgets that real humans will be affected by its plans.
Maybe a little out of place here but the video of the Nazi nurse which Padraig posted above brought something else to mind. I was in Whitefriar Street church in Dublin city centre on Saturday evening. As I was leaving after Mass I noticed an exhibition on the life of recently canonised Carmelite saint called Titus Brandsma. His name seemed familiar but I didn't know much about him. Later on I learned a bit more and am reading the official biography at the moment. Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1985, he was canonised as a martyr in May 2022. As a Catholic journalist in the Netherlands he refused to publish Nazi propaganda and encouraged others to do like. This led to him being sent to the concentration camp at Dachau. He died in July 1942, having been given a lethal injection by a nurse there. The last thing he did was to speak kindly to her and give her his only possession which was his rosary. The nurse later reverted to the Catholic faith and testified at the beatification process. Attached is a short video about him by the Carmelites in Ireland (he had visited here in 1935) which was made before he was canonised, so they are referring to him as Blessed. Saint Titus Brandsma, pray for us.
Please pray for the Armenians and raise the concern. There is a means of helping mentioned on the clip. O Mary conceived without sin, pray with us for the Armenians!
I watched this today. Fair play to Pope Francis for mentioning the Genocide, it was good and brave of him. Actually the Turks used the Kurds to murder the Armenians as their hit men. It is good to recall this when you hear of Kurds seeking their own freedom.
