By Kevin O'Neil
Why was the fiercest invective of that
paragon of beings, the Man of Nazareth, reserved for the religious
hypocrites of His day? Not for the blatant criminals but for the falsely
religious, the pretenders.
While not excusing the sin of those
who practiced the oldest profession in the world, or the
transgressions of those engaged in, arguably, the second oldest profession, tax
collecting, His condemnation was focused not on them but on the hypocrites, the
dissemblers, the con artists and frauds who posed in long-fringed clerical
robes on street corners pronouncing lengthy prayers. This was
the evidence of their superior morality. Or not.
The ghost of Hamlet's
father lamented his most seeming-virtuous Queen, who had
appeared one thing and, in truth, been something quite different, oh so
different. Antony, in speaking of the multitude of wounds inflicted on
the body of Caesar, identified that of his apparent friend, Brutus, as the
most unkindest cut of all. Betrayal, if it is to succeed, must be
accompanied with pretense. In both cases the victim learned this too late.
The diabolic art of seeming to be
one thing when you are quite something else. A horrible thing.
Spies are despised the world over, the names of Quisling and Lord Haw Haw are
dirt.
And don't ever forget the Biblical
warning about the wolf that is clad in sheep's clothing.
How would we answer this question: What
is worse, ugly reality or moral pretense? A bloody corpse or a
whitewashed sepulchre?
The evil Kermit Gosnell, may his name
be blotted out, has thrust into our minds images of jars of human parts,
serum-slippery floors, bloody scissors and inhumanity relishing the power it
wields over undefended innocence. Images of cruelty and heartlessness that
will not and should not be forgotten quickly, if ever. We can safely
assume that no abattoir could generate anywhere nearly as much revulsion in us
than would a visit to this house of horrors.
Yet Gosnell has given us the
ugly reality of what we have come to euphemistically call abortion. The
word derives from the Latin and means to miscarry and with no sense
of willful intent as far as I can see. So then our modern use of the
word to describe a miscarriage, which is purposely induced, is really a
misuse of the term. A convenient misuse, because if we were to call it what it
is we should have to use terms such as pre-meditated murder or killing or even
sacrifice, and that would undoubtedly offend somebody's tender conscience,
and a tender conscience must be protected from ugly reality at all costs.
We pay people good money to perform
hygienic killings of tiny babies who have not yet cut their first tooth;
in the antiseptic rooms of clinics we murder them humanely. That is to
say, it's largely out of sight and the doctors who perform it look not
like Gosnell but fine, decent men and women who have been highly trained in our
best colleges. So that's all OK, then. But, as far as the baby's
concerned, dead is dead. Gosnell's victims were not more dead than these
victims.
Gosnell's crime was that he
didn't do it nicely, as prescribed; he was callous, vicious and cruel. If
he hadn't been like that, but more like the fine chaps in the clinics
of Planned Parenthood (Unparenthood), many people wouldn't have
turned a hair. But the babies would still be dying. I understand that they
had a record year 2011-12, a full 333,964 successful killings, business is
booming and the abortion President blushed coyly because of his
success, promising full support in the future.
But the cat's out the
bag. Gosnell is the real face of abortion wherever it's carried out,
with or without air conditioning. And people are sick of it and of a
President who summons God to bless the enterprise. If God weeps, and I believe
He does, He weeps now.
So, what is worse, ugly reality or
moral pretense? A corpse bloodied or a sepulchre whitewashed? For sheer
horror, the blood and filth of Gosnell's workshop takes the prize. But
for the danger that it presents to Western society, the Brave New World of
Planned Parenthood Clinics is by far the gravest peril. It has all to do
with a betrayal cloaked in a pretense.
What could the Boston bomber story have
in common with this? Everything, it's the same pattern.
The Boston bombers were another
manifestation of evil that quite rightly horrified us. Catastrophes
and natural disasters with a hundred times the destructive effect don't shock
us nearly as much as this one did. Why is this? For one thing there is the
malignant will behind such an act, this horrifies us. Then there is the scene
itself, not a battlefield but a family event, a happy gathering of smiling
people transformed in a second into a bloody nightmare. The impression of
evil is overwhelming. Shakespeare's deed without a name.
Weren't the Boston bombers
muslims? Wasn't the Fort Hood killer a muslim? The London
underground bombing and the Madrid bombing? Weren't the World Trade Centre and
Pentagon attacks committed by muslims? And since that fateful day we call
9/11 hasn't there been an average of 5 terrorist attacks by muslims every
single day throughout the world, making a grand total of 20,755?
Like Gosnell, this is relatively easy
to deal with, a bloody, nasty nightmare but even the President rushes to be
numbered among the decriers of such atrocities, even he doesn't blush with
modesty at the news of muslim devilry in Boston.
But the Islam of which he and too many
others do approve is the one which seems to be composed of people almost like
you or me, loving families who run small businesses and just appear to want a
peaceful life. And maybe they do, but the bosses of the mosques have very
different ideas, for they believe the Koran, they seriously believe that
Mohammed's life of rape, murder, and enslavement is the life of perfection, the
life to emulate, the life that allah wants reproduced in every
muslim. And the
bosses are preaching old fashioned American pie stuff like this: The mosques
are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the
faithful our soldiers... Why? Because Islam is not just a religion
which you can believe in or not, it is a complete political and totalitarian
system similar to Nazism or Communism, which will never rest until the host
society is dominated and every aspect of freedom riveted down and submitted.
Wake up, West! The mosques are
just the friendly facades, the pretense that surrounds a betrayal in
waiting.
"The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim." - Marco Polo
We had better come to our
senses soon because they are both just two different faces of the
same thing, Death.
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