Those who fail to learn from the past...
...are doomed to repeat it.An ancient stone image of King Herod and a modern digital image of President Obama; if only the resemblance ended there.
Alas...
During his violent rise to power, Herod enjoyed the backing of the Roman army, returning favor for favor; as an aspiring state legislator, Obama enjoyed the backing of the abortion lobby, voting repeatedly to legalize infanticide. The Roman army brought Herod to Jerusalem, where they installed him as client king; abortion supporters brought Obama to Washington, first as senator, then president. Fearing loss of his throne, King Herod ordered his soldiers to slaughter Bethlehem's children; fearing loss of his base, President Obama has ordered his legislators to mandate and fund an expanded slaughter of America's children.
And it grows still darker...
Herod put family members, including his ambitious sons, to death; Barack Obama, referring to his daughters, said that "if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." Obama was speaking openly and emphatically of putting his grandchildren to death. (Without regard, obviously, for what his daughters might want. So much for a woman's right to choose.)
Like Herod, Obama considers family disposable. But even Herod allowed his sons the semblance of a trial. Obama condemns his grandchildren even before they're conceived, on grounds that he doesn't want them. With law school graduates like this, is it any wonder we're handed decisions like Roe v. Wade?
Perhaps most sobering of all is that we Americans did not have our Herod foisted upon us; we, as an electorate, chose him and his anti-life Congress. We knew exactly what we were getting. With government-mandated, taxpayer-funded abortion, euthanasia, contraception and other anti-life legislation in the works, we have no one but ourselves to blame for what happens next.
This week, the Eastern and Western Churches celebrated the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the martyrdom of Bethlehem's children. The Holy Innocents are patron saints of the unborn and we ask their intercession to change the hearts and minds of those lost in the culture of death.
Alas...
During his violent rise to power, Herod enjoyed the backing of the Roman army, returning favor for favor; as an aspiring state legislator, Obama enjoyed the backing of the abortion lobby, voting repeatedly to legalize infanticide. The Roman army brought Herod to Jerusalem, where they installed him as client king; abortion supporters brought Obama to Washington, first as senator, then president. Fearing loss of his throne, King Herod ordered his soldiers to slaughter Bethlehem's children; fearing loss of his base, President Obama has ordered his legislators to mandate and fund an expanded slaughter of America's children.
And it grows still darker...
Herod put family members, including his ambitious sons, to death; Barack Obama, referring to his daughters, said that "if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." Obama was speaking openly and emphatically of putting his grandchildren to death. (Without regard, obviously, for what his daughters might want. So much for a woman's right to choose.)
Like Herod, Obama considers family disposable. But even Herod allowed his sons the semblance of a trial. Obama condemns his grandchildren even before they're conceived, on grounds that he doesn't want them. With law school graduates like this, is it any wonder we're handed decisions like Roe v. Wade?
Perhaps most sobering of all is that we Americans did not have our Herod foisted upon us; we, as an electorate, chose him and his anti-life Congress. We knew exactly what we were getting. With government-mandated, taxpayer-funded abortion, euthanasia, contraception and other anti-life legislation in the works, we have no one but ourselves to blame for what happens next.
This week, the Eastern and Western Churches celebrated the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the martyrdom of Bethlehem's children. The Holy Innocents are patron saints of the unborn and we ask their intercession to change the hearts and minds of those lost in the culture of death.
Great post, John. We all need to boost our prayers and fasting, daily mass attendance, reconciliation, and did I mention prayer without ceasing? All those millions of aborted awaiting to hear our prayers ... God be with you and the work you do for Him (and His mother!) ...
ReplyDeleteRosary Online in English and Spanish with links to Portuguese, Latin, and Dutch. (Pray along with the rosary, then leave on in the background all day long!:)) Also, a link is available to Lourdes Live, so one can pray the beads (remembering to turn down the sound at Lourdes) while "at Lourdes."
Jeanette O'Toole
And the Son
This similarity was on my mind as well as we look back upon a year with the most pro-abortion president in our history.
ReplyDeleteMay God give Obama the grace to repent before he suffers Herod's fate. May He grant our nation the grace to repent before we suffer the fate of the Children of Israel in the diaspora.
He's wicked . . and the leader of our nation, God forgive us.
ReplyDeleteSusan Jorgensen
Don't just pray, do something! Remember, according to Jesus in His parable of the Samaritan, it was the religious men who walked by on the other side. The Samaritan risked his life, spent his time and money to do what he could to help the poor victim. The religious guys no doubt 'prayed about it'!
ReplyDeleteIf you want to do something positive about abortion, try this: www.created4life.org
Alan--
ReplyDeleteYou make the same mistake many other sincere and devoted pro-lifers make. Prayer is, in fact, the most efficacious means to our end and the requisite action to all others we undertake.
First among them is the principal prayer God has given us, the Divine Liturgy. Participation in the Mass, through which we join Christ in the eternal gift of Himself to the Father, is the most profound, important and efficacious thing anyone can do.
After the Mass, the Rosary is most efficacious. It is Mary-- at once the most humble of creatures, yet the Mother of God-- who Satan most fears. To quote St. Louis Marie de Montfort, writing three centuries ago...
"But the power of Mary over all the devils will especially shine forth in the latter times, when Satan will lay his snares against her heel; that is to say, her humble slaves and her poor children, whom she will raise up to make war against him. They shall be little and poor in the world's esteem, and abased before all like the heel, trodden underfoot and persecuted as the heel is by the other members of the body. But in return for this they shall be rich in the grace of God, which Mary shall distribute to them abundantly. They shall be great and exalted before God in sanctity, superior to all other creatures by their lively zeal, and so well sustained with God's assistance that, with the humility of their heel, in union with Mary, they shall crush the head of the devil and cause Jesus Christ to triumph."
Indeed, we must take action of all kinds, via our family, friends, the media and our governments; this is why I do what I do as a writer, illustrator, blogger and voter. But it is the principal thing I do as a Christian-- pray -- that is above all these. Because it is most fruitful.