Secularism leading to Nazi eugenics in Victoria, claims Bishop Peter Elliott

[davo]

Yep ... 'news' :

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vic...-1225948104867

THE "warped practice of eugenics is rising from its Nazi tomb" in Australia, a senior Catholic bishop says.

Bishop Peter Elliott, head of Melbourne's John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family told mass-goers in Bendigo Cathedral on Sunday: "A seek-and-destroy policy kills little human beings in the womb because they are 'guilty' of Down Syndrome, dwarfism or other imperfection.

"They are deemed to be unfit to live for they do not come up to the standard of the 'designer baby' and a healthy, sport-loving race.

"It is no surprise that euthanasia is being strongly promoted today. Nor should it be a surprise that this is the policy of a political and ideological force that puts more value on wattle and wombats than people.

"Resurgent aggressive secularism resorts to killing as it strives to engineer, direct and control not only society, but your life and mine."


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Why does this shit even make the news? This was something he said to his cult in church .. why do we also have to be exposed to his bigotry?

EDIT: Godwins Law is alive and well

[robertkd]

WOW what is in the wine,...

[Loki]

That bastard needlessly destroyed a whole districts worth of straw to construct that article.

Straw has rights too you know, think of the straw.

Why won't anyone think of the straw.

[bruce1937]

Is this the same religion whose god hates blind people and will not accept them into his realm?

[Fearless]

Aggressive secularism?... Aggressive atheism!?. I see patterns!

Creating fear using fearmongery. These clowns have no idea, seemingly spending their time trying to put others down rather than doing something worthwhile... Although I am sure they think that targeting everyone else that they fear in the hope that somehow we will either all convert over or lemming it off a cliff and rid the world of evil. What do they really hope to achieve?

I'm with you davo. How the heck do these people get air time? I think they should pay for the air they breathe, they are only wasting the damn stuff.

[davo]

@Fearless : yea, like this was stuff he said during their worship time, informing his flock, I mean .. wtf?

[RealityRules]

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Typical Murdoch internet media has comments option, yet only accepts a few for half an hour.

As far as using secularism perjoratively. I like this -

The literal meaning of "secular" - a term based on the Latin, saeculum - is

"of the times," or "of the age"; or even "in the world."

from .. SPECIAL RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, by Catherine Byrne

www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2010/11/01/3054122.htm?topic1=&topic2=

Bishops need to get real that people have been screening for congenital defects for quite a while, and dealing with as they see fit
.

[robertkd]

I say Mr Black are they brass knobs??

[Arcanyn]

Bishop Peter Elliott, head of Melbourne's John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family told mass-goers in Bendigo Cathedral on Sunday: "A seek-and-destroy policy kills little human beings in the womb because they are 'guilty' of Down Syndrome, dwarfism or other imperfection.

I wonder what the Bible says about people with disabilities?

Leviticus 21: 17-23
Whosoever ... hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. ... Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries.

Seems Yahweh doesn't have a particularly high opinion of diabled people.

"Resurgent aggressive secularism resorts to killing as it strives to engineer, direct and control not only society, but your life and mine."

He's just jealous the Catholic Church doesn't get to do that anymore.

[atheist_angel]

"A seek-and-destroy policy kills little human beings in the womb because they are 'guilty' of Down Syndrome, dwarfism or other imperfection."They are deemed to be unfit to live for they do not come up to the standard of the 'designer baby' and a healthy,

Well unless he is willing (and able) to personally pay for the years education, medication, surgeries, therapies, and 'special needs' equipment (as needed) for every baby in the world that is born with a severe condition, I think he should shut the hell up!