The greenish light shone in upon him from below. So the face of the young idiot looked ghostly pale, and then even more unpleasant. His eyes were lost in the void, and his hair shaved to zero to highlight the slight deformity of the skull. In a next shot, the director had given him something to eat, so that the contraction a little 'spastic jaws would make her look even more disgusting. The dark background accentuated the sense of horror. No one, to see those images portrayed with cinematic wisdom, could escape a feeling of disgust mixed with pity.
Here the "lives unworthy of being lived," as the slogan read invented by Hitler himself.
This is one of several Nazi propaganda film of the second half of the '30s, who had been shot by the directors of the system to support the project Aktion T4. A secret program, but studied in detail, anticipating that the start of the Shoah it proposed the elimination of severely disabled people from all over the Reich and occupied territories.
early as 1935, the Fuhrer had promised to the chief medical Reich, Gerhard Wagner, who once started the war would have implemented a eugenics program that would go for mass euthanasia. It was the word in 1939 - the eve of the invasion of Poland - began with euthanasia, before moving to the suppression of programmed all people with disabilities. Within a few years, where the law on forced sterilization of disabled people had followed that promulgated against the Jews and gypsies, the mass murder of disabled people was followed closely by that of the same Jews and Gypsies.
Those gruesome propaganda films, still available on the web, I came to mind while reading a newspaper article of today on the tragic case of Eluana. "... The body withered, atrophied limbs of an old, shrunken, the wounds on his right cheek often positioned to the side, unable to swallow; the nose is now huge compared to a face portrait, deformed ears, calloused, darkened by the wounds, the eyes large and horribly off that moved in all directions, or buildings with his eyelids at half mast their dementia; saliva that dripped from his mouth, his tongue hanging out and dead .... "
Obviously they are false, the lies circulated to understand art, as is the nature of all items of propaganda. The testimony of the sisters Misericordine of Lecco, in which the lives of disabled Eluana was brutally torn, but also the findings of the autopsy showed that the conditions were not those of the murdered woman. Sisters of Christian Charity, in the course of many years of vegetative state, had always prevented the disintegration of the body, the rest usually does not touch someone with a disability in those conditions, especially when it can rely on a human or religious family who take care of him. The article was
Filippo Facci, and has appeared on Journal .
* * * It was claimed that the story of Eluana has marked a watershed in the collective conscience of our country. The Gazette
wrote that the Catholic Church on this occasion would have lost something more than a battle. This is because, in the collective drama that also has accompagnato l’inatteso caso di eutanasia giudiziaria, avrebbe mostrato tutta la debolezza del suo ceto intellettuale e dei suoi media . La Chiesa avrebbe dovuto fare i conti con la perdita della sua antica capacità di fare presa sul sentire comune del Paese, così come con una risorgente impossibilità – per mancanza di energie morali, dopo la crisi postconciliare e le stagioni perdenti dei referendum su divorzio e aborto – di condurre in Italia una nuova cultural war sul grande tema della difesa della vita.
Certo, per i laicisti arrabbiati che hanno condotto il piano di eliminazione di Eluana, o comunque che ne hanno approfittato, si trattava di prendersi una rivincita per lo smacco subito with the referendum on artificial insemination.
The goal was to overthrow the Italian claim to exceptionality, where it is feared that the presence of the Vatican still able to put up some resistance - such as catechon Pauline - the affirmation of the "New World" Huxley told by other authors and apocalyptic the twentieth century.
was, in fact clear to everyone, from the beginning that the real enemy was the Catholic Church. Although until the last proponents of the "project Eluana" were not made of this opportunity to throw in politics (still echoes the infamous leader of the jokes that would euthanised in showing a pronounced Rai journalist body of the girl who was dying of thirst "Can a woman like this be able to father a child?!?" ).
It is true that on this occasion, seems to have broken the principle of the absolute unavailability of human life and dignity - the last stronghold of the fundamental Judeo-Christian culture that built the West - the Catholic and Apostolic Church appears to be humbled output .
civilization in the wake of Judaism that ended the practice of human sacrifice for religious purposes, cut down the jus vitae et necis of the fathers upon the children that in fact belonged to the Roman and all ancient civilizations, and invented the concept of secularism as against the imperial power, to deny the State the right to offend the natural rights of citizens, in fact, on this occasion appeared helpless and on the verge of collapse.
It 's a thought inevitable, when he began to be attacked in such a spectacular way the pillars on which the Christian civilization arose. The civilization in the name of the suffering Christ began to care for abandoned children, the seriously ill, and so he invented the hospitals and modern medicine as we know it today (not all, however ...) seems to be about to surrender way to a new vision of the world.
The contents of this new civilization are still to be defined, but we know that it finds its roots in those cultures and their pre-Christian religion which - no coincidence - the very German National Socialism of the last century had sought to reintroduce into modernity.
But here, despite the apparent weakness of the last conscious defenders of secular thought and Christian, we believe that this can not happen really. At the very least, can not go all the way, if there is a fund. Because it is in extreme weakness, for two thousand years, the novelty of Christianity is full force.
More than fifteen years ago when it was just the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Ratzinger published a speech which showed that - after all - not an unusual fact that civilizations are likely to encounter more Christianized and sophisticated, even for long periods, stages of apparent blindness to the law ".
had already happened with slavery of blacks in the United States in the late eighteenth century. As with the first colonization of the nineteenth century when it began to think that there were inferior races that were to be subjugated to man also on the European legal system. Then, as we all know, this anti-Christian thought has come back into the horrors of Nazism and even those of socialism, when the discrimination and then the destruction began to be implemented on a large scale is not for racial reasons, but economic, in the usual illusion of being able to build a new humanity.
However, it is also true that - the outcome of these troubled times - in Western history has always come back, so to speak, to a relative normality. The common sense of people, Christian education and indigenous to hear of the people, the ability to perceive the reality of things - for it is the reality, objective truth, the logos Greeks as well as the practical reason of the moderns, the underlying principles on which Christianity is all his strength - in the end always end up re-emerge.
So there is reason to hope. Even at the time of the referendum on assisted fertilization polls had not anticipated anything of what happened. Major newspapers and TV were all on the other hand, has gone that way yet that still burns in spectacular lorsignori. In our opinion can not be just a few years, despite appearances, to change things in our country.
must therefore be vigilant and again, in the name of freedom and human dignity. But not enough corporal works of mercy, even if in fact it seems that it just start to give drink to the thirsty. It takes from now on also of spiritual mercy. We must return without fear to counsel the doubtful, and to warn sinners. In the spirit of truth, which is also true that of secularism.
The Christian difference, the ability to be in the world without being of the world, will help us. It 's always happened so and will happen again this time, because in Italy and Europe, immigration aside, the trend demographic is not from the generation of secular and desperate sessantottino.
Sancte Michael Archangel, defends in proel nos.
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