killing: the slippery slope is a cliff to push off grandmom

 from NotDeadYet, a disability organization.

My name is John B. Kelly. I am the New England Regional Director for Not Dead Yet,...My name is John B. Kelly. I am the New England Regional Director for Not Dead Yet,..I keep thinking about Canada, where people like me – I’m a quadriplegic paralyzed below the shoulders, but I am not terminally ill – have become eligible for their so-called “aid in dying” program – and by aid in dying Canada means euthanasia 99.9% of the time. At first, Canada legalized euthanasia/assisted suicide for people whose deaths were “reasonably foreseeable,” but then expanded eligibility. There have been documented cases of disabled people being offered euthanasia instead of services. In the US, proponents insist they only seek assisted suicide for people labelled “terminally ill,” meaning death is probable within six months, but there have already been calls to expand eligibility beyond six months and beyond people diagnosed terminally ill.

For example, New Mexico’s HB 90, the Elizabeth Whitefield End Of Life Options Act, was submitted in 2019 with a definition of terminal illness encompassing all incurable and irreversible conditions that “will result in death within the foreseeable future.” The bill passed in 2021 after switching back to the six-month standard. When proponents testify before committees such as yours, they emphasize “safeguards.” But then they come back the following session and complain about “barriers” to care. So that 15 day waiting period, that becomes onerous, as does the 48-hour delay between written request and prescription.

From the first Oregon report in 1998 regarding its “Death with Dignity Act,” it’s been clear that use of assisted suicide has been most associated with perceptions of individual control and autonomy, not the experience or fear of physical pain. The reported “end of life concerns” in Oregon hinge largely on people’s “existential distress,” as one study termed it, in reaction to the disabling features of their illness: “losing autonomy” (90%), “less able to engage in activities” (90%), “loss of dignity” (72%), “burden on others” (48%) and “losing control of bodily functions” (44%). These are all disability related concerns.

The best article on this issue is by Washington Post reporter Liz Szabo. In 2016, she reported that where assisted suicide has been legalized, proponents have succeeded in “convincing voters, lawmakers and courts that terminally ill patients have the right to die without suffering intractable pain in their final days or week.”

Yet the latest research shows that terminally ill patients who seek aid in dying aren’t primarily concerned about pain. Those who have actually used these laws have been far more concerned about controlling the way they exit the world than about controlling pain.

and minorities and working class whites oppose it: It seems to be an upper middle class white movement because they want everything to be under their control and despise being dependent. This is called ableism...

The spirit of greed: Even the new agers and pagans see it as evil

 The late night program coast to coast am which explores ufos and bigfoot has a long program about the wetigo spririt.LINK

description:

Spiritual emergence pioneer Paul Levy discussed the Native American idea of the wetiko mind. Following a traumatic personal encounter with the forces of darkness and evil, he recounted, Levy came to realize that he was experiencing wetiko, which he described as a kind of collective psychosis that's infected the population worldwide.

 italics mine.

...  While part of wetiko is a demon-like source of evil, it's actually a dangerous sort of gift, Levy said. Wetiko puts us in touch with our own immense creative potential and energy, albeit at a high price: it can turn those forces of light against us if we're not careful.

hmm. sounds diabolic to me. And a lot of it is behind all that stuff about church of lucifer or the idea that satan tempted Eve so she would be free and have godlike powers.

Hmm thats a new one, but I'm not exactly going to spend 2 hours listening to it.

but anyway: the word is similar to the Wendigo, the evil spirit of some Indian tribes.

The guy they interviewed has his own webpage called reality sandwish... reality? Psychotic ideas would be more accurate. But his webpage

Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity..

blames white people of course, as if these demons didn't exist in Asia or among AmerIndian tribes

and he goes on to say how you can "investigate" the spirit without getting infected with it.

Uh, if it's a spirit, isn't it more powerful than you are?

but of course, they are talking about greed behind capitalism, big business that produces stuff that enables millions of people to survive but do so in order to make a profit, and profit is bad, even if it enables millions of people to survive.

As for the cannibal spirit: wouldn't aborting your child so you can stay free of responsibility, have as much sex as you want to, and get ahead in business, a form of cannibalism that is more evil than inventing an herbicide and insectidice that lets you harvest more of your crop without it being overcome with bugs and weeds?

The green religion of ecology will be pushing this spirit.

You know, one can worry about such things (we grow organic rice) but until you note the alternative is massive death by starvation of millions.

Killing the poor as a medical treatment

 NatReview reports:

two Canadian bioethicists just published a paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics — a prestigious British Medical Journal publication — arguing that “unjust social conditions” justify lethal jabs (euphemistically called MAiD, for “medical assistance in dying”). The argument claims that killing is a form of “harm reduction.”

The authors even admit such cases have already occurred legally in Canada. From “Choosing Death in Unjust Conditions: Hope, Autonomy, and Harm Reduction” (my emphasis):

In 2022, an individual in Canada, who had been diagnosed with multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), received MAiD. However, by their own description, their decision to choose MAiD was driven primarily by the fact that they were unable to access affordable housing compatible with MCS. While it was true that they suffered from an illness, disease or disability that caused ‘enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to them and cannot be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable’ as specified under the eligibility criteria of Bill C-14 [that recently expanded eligibility beyond death being “reasonably foreseeable], the primary source of their suffering was an inability to find appropriate housing, not the condition itself. Another person, also with MCS, writes: ‘I’ve applied for MAiD essentially because of abject poverty’.

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and in February, a Yale Professor from Japan said we should kill off the elderly:

A professor at Yale University has sparked outrage for suggesting that elderly Japanese residents should take part in a “mass suicide” by disembowelment to help the country deal with its rapidly aging population.

Yusuke Narita, 37, an assistant professor of economics at the Ivy League school, has gained hundreds of thousands of followers on social media as he touted the controversial solution in multiple interviews and publications — but he’s also drawn ire, the New York Times reported. “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,”

Narita said during a news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?” he added, referring to the practice of disembowelment utilized by dishonored Samurai in the late 19th century. Last year, Narita answered a boy’s question about seppuku by telling a group of students about a scene from “Midsommar,” a 2019 flick in which a Swedish cult sends one of its oldest members to jump off a cliff.

“Whether that’s a good thing or not, that’s a more difficult question to answer,” he said. “So if you think that’s good, then maybe you can work hard toward creating a society like that.”

italics mine 

 

He also has discussed euthanasia, predicting that the “possibility of making it mandatory in the future” will become part of the public discourse.

actually, the practics was not unknown in ancient/medieval Japan and has a name: from Wikipedia; Ubasute 

Ubasute (姥捨て, "abandoning an old woman", also called obasute and sometimes oyasute 親捨て "abandoning a parent") is a mythical practice of senicide in Japan, whereby an infirm or elderly relative was carried to a mountain, or some other remote, desolate place, and left there to die.^[1]

the Wikipedia page has a list of western books/films etc that push the idea (ignoring the many more films/books that glamourize the killing of the handicapped, usually pushed as something they wanted to do).

Synodality: The emperor is naked but don't say it out loud

 What every believing Catholic has noticed, but has been ignored by the MSM and much of the compliant Catholic press, is that the synodality stuff is a sham.

FirstThings magazine gets it right:

The NAFD takes for granted that there is a tension between being inclusive, welcoming, and hospitable and being faithful to Christ,,,

 

The just-below-the-surface assumption here is that fidelity to the Church’s teaching needs to be re-imagined and re-worked so that various people will not feel that they are being excluded and rejected.

 

Church teaching is put on trial.

Yup. We sort of noticed but hey, who listens to the deplorable ordinary Catholic? 

Rejection of that teaching is accorded pride of place. What is going on here?

Only the heretics and prideful reformers are listened to, because this is a sham. 

Women who want to receive Holy Orders, people who are unhappy that their immoral sexual acts are categorized as being gravely sinful, divorced people who remarry outside the Church and want to receive Holy Communion—all of them claim that they are being unfairly treated. They claim that Church teaching is hurtful and un-Christian, and they will only feel fully welcomed and affirmed by the Church when their desires and actions are recognized as legitimate, and the Church changes her teaching.

Yup. The church is about welcoming sinners: But as sinners, called to repent. So we have to change that part about repent because hey, saying that is a micro aggression. 

The NAFD considers all this to be up for discussion, which means that those pushing for doctrinal change are being treated as prophets needing to be heeded, and not as heretics needing to be rebuked.

Italics mine. 

The synodal process is an exercise in “platforming” the grievances of selected “Catholic” interest groups that unapologetically reject the Church’s teaching. '

 

The claim that this out-in-the-open subversion is the work of the Holy Spirit speaking to the Church today is a gambit to insulate this revolution from criticism.

 

What is happening is an attempted power grab by those who want to change the Catholic Church’s teaching according to their worldly views about power, sex, and anything else they decide is important. That this is happening is a scandal and a disaster. We must pray that God spare us from this calamity.

that article is by Father Murray, who dares to say similar things on EWTN... which is why the PC bishops hate EWTN. 

The latest distortion is the Pope now deciding selected lay people can join the synod of bishops. So who chooses them? The anti Pope Francis of course.

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