Anxiety and Fear

Anxiety and Fear
In pursuit of the truth – cinops be gone – Wednesday, January 14, 2009

The Jan. 12th entry in Pope Benedict’s book, Co-Workers of the Truth, “Meditations for Every Day,” is appropriate for our times:

What we fear nowadays is the darkness that emanates from man, and in this fear we have finally discovered true darkness – more fearful in this century of man’s inhumanity that could ever have been imagined by the generations that preceded us.

We are afraid that the good in the world will become completely powerless; that eventually it will not longer be meaningful to seek the good in truth, purity, justice, or love because the law of the sharper elbow is now the only law that prevails in the world, because the tendency of the world is to judge in favor of the violent, the brutal and not the saintly.

For we see what rules the world is MONEY, THE ATOM BOMB, THE CYNICISM of those to whom nothing is sacred.

How often we find ourselves fearing that there is, after all, no meaning in the chaotic flurry of this world; ultimately, world history will divide all men into the stupid and the strong. There’s a general feeling that the powers of darkness are on the increase, that the good is powerless – the feeling that assails us when we look at the world is the same feeling that must have once assailed our ancestors in autumn and winter when the sun seemed to be engaged in a death struggle.

Will it survive? Will the good continue to have meaning and power in the world? In the stable at Bethlehem as sign that enables us to answer with a joyous yes! For the Child, God’s only-begotten Son, is set as a sign and a surety that in the end God will have the last word history and that he is truth and love. p. 21

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Let’s focus on one of the above: Cynicism of those to whom nothing is sacred, and think of “The Freedom of Choice Act” which Congress may be voting on this year. See K. of C. Columbia, Jan. 2009 edition, “A Serious Threat.” 16-19

1) The Freedom of Choice Act would jeopardize human life and freedom of conscience in the United States. 2) The progress made by the pro-life movement over the past 35 years in limiting and reducing abortions through modest regulations could vanish overnight.
3) The danger is that a bad court decision {Roe} will be enshrined in bad legislation that is more radical than the 1973 Supreme Court decision itself.
4) FOCA would create a “fundamental right” to abortion and sweep away the more than 300 federal, state or local regulations that currently exist.

THE ABOVE ARE THE REASONS WHY WE MAIL OUT THE “FOCA POSTCARDS” TO OUR POLITICIANS IN CONGRESS!
George H. Kubeck