I was surfing the web earlier this evening and I came across an article in the NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER that was very gruesome by it’s nature. I won’t repeat it here….. we currently have an over supply of gruesomeness and an under supply of kindness, so I’m going with the kindness part of the article.
I just thought the author’s words were so lovely, that it would be a good thing to reproduce them here.
~~John Cronin~~
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
by Matthew Archbold
I used to think that the abortion industry were simply capitalists who allowed their greed to override their humanity. I used to think that maybe it was just feminism run amok and that cooler heads would eventually prevail. I used to think that pro-lifers were simply up against the extreme of secularized logic. Over the past few years though I’ve come to believe that it’s more than that. It’s worse than that. We’re immersed in a culture with a death fetish. Our fascination with death is boundless.
Our culture increasingly sees humanity as the problem. We elevate animals in order to grant them human rights and increasingly view humans as animals.
I have increasingly come to agree with C.S. Lewis who said we are in “enemy occupied territory.” Hate has become so commonplace that it has lost its power to surprise me.
Kindness now moves me more than hate. I have come to see love as the exception; kindness as counter cultural. Maybe it was always this way and I am simply more aware of it now. But maybe on the other hand we’ve stepped off a cliff here. Maybe things actually are getting worse. Maybe all the standards and rules we as a society saw as bars of a cage were actually protecting us. From each other.
No matter what, I think it’s time love made a comeback.
