Embracing a 'culture of death'

In recent years, President Obama stated that the United States is not a Christian nation. Sadly, at least based on lifestyles of many who call themselves Christian and those who don't, he has a point.

That's not the way our nation started. Our founders clearly believed they were establishing a Christian nation. Our rule of law is securely anchored in the Ten Commandments and the Judeo-Christian ethic, as is our Constitution, its preamble, and Declaration of Independence.

Yearly, 1.2 million babies die from abortion, our national holocaust. Brittany Maynard was lauded in the media for moving to Oregon so she could end her life herself in one of the five states where euthanasia is legal. This in contrast to Kara Tippetts who is dying from brain cancer, too, but has chosen to trust God's timing rather than her own for her death.

Some seem to believe that terminally ill people, or the elderly and infirm, are always burdens, never benefits, and have an obligation to end their lives. What most don't realize is that in countries such as Belgium and The Netherlands what began as a right to die has become a duty to die with non-consensual euthanasia being practiced 32 percent of the time. Lives deemed not worth living are being eliminated for the purpose of procuring their organs to the extent that elderly Belgium citizens have become fearful of being hospitalized.

Those who dare investigate what the most popular video and Xbox, etc. games are will find they revolve around mayhem and murder and our younger people are those most using them, often hours per day. So what can we expect in the future? Will we backpedal from the culture of death we have embraced? Or will we Choose Life?

P.J. Bertrand

Wood Dale