Tough Stuff, But Good to Keep in Mind
“Suicide is certainly the most in-your-face index of unhappiness there is. And suicide is almost always directly proportionate to wealth. The richer you and your country are, the more likely it is that you will find life so good that you will choose to blow your brains out. Suicide among pre-adults has increased 5,000 percent since the ‘happy days’ of the fifties (this quote is from a book written in 2002). If suicide is not an index of crisis, especially of the coming generation, what is?
But there are more suicides than that. Half of all marriages commit suicide. That is what divorce is─the suicide of the new ‘one flesh’ made by the marriage. If half of all the citizens of a country committed suicide, would you think that country had a bright future or a happy present? But the citizens of any country are not merely individuals; they are also families. Individuals are not the primary building blocks of societies; families are. Individuals are the building blocks of families. So half of all the new citizens of America commit suicide.
And if you insist on limiting ‘new citizens’ to ‘individual children conceived,’ the statics are not much better. One-third of all American children are killed─by their mothers, before they can be born, using healers as hit men.
This is a happy country? This is peace?
I know a doctor who spent two years in the Congo winning the confidence of a dying tribe who would not trust outsiders (black or white) and who were dying because of their bad diet. He was a dietitian, and he saved their lives. Once they knew this, they trusted him totally and asked him all sorts of questions about life in the West. They believed all the amazing things he told them, like flying to the moon and destroying whole cities with one bomb, but there were two things they literally could not believe. One was that in the West there are atheists─people who believe in no gods at all. (‘Are these people blind and deaf? Have they never seen a leaf or heard a waterfall?’) The other was that in one nation alone (America), over a million mothers each year pay doctors to kill their babies before they are born. Their reaction to this was to giggle, which was their embarrassed way of trying to be polite, assuming it was a joke. They simply had no holding place in their minds for this concept, and they expected every day that the doctor would tell them the point of the joke.
And it is we who call these people ‘primitive.’ The irony is mountainous.”
~Peter Kreeft
But there are more suicides than that. Half of all marriages commit suicide. That is what divorce is─the suicide of the new ‘one flesh’ made by the marriage. If half of all the citizens of a country committed suicide, would you think that country had a bright future or a happy present? But the citizens of any country are not merely individuals; they are also families. Individuals are not the primary building blocks of societies; families are. Individuals are the building blocks of families. So half of all the new citizens of America commit suicide.
And if you insist on limiting ‘new citizens’ to ‘individual children conceived,’ the statics are not much better. One-third of all American children are killed─by their mothers, before they can be born, using healers as hit men.
This is a happy country? This is peace?
I know a doctor who spent two years in the Congo winning the confidence of a dying tribe who would not trust outsiders (black or white) and who were dying because of their bad diet. He was a dietitian, and he saved their lives. Once they knew this, they trusted him totally and asked him all sorts of questions about life in the West. They believed all the amazing things he told them, like flying to the moon and destroying whole cities with one bomb, but there were two things they literally could not believe. One was that in the West there are atheists─people who believe in no gods at all. (‘Are these people blind and deaf? Have they never seen a leaf or heard a waterfall?’) The other was that in one nation alone (America), over a million mothers each year pay doctors to kill their babies before they are born. Their reaction to this was to giggle, which was their embarrassed way of trying to be polite, assuming it was a joke. They simply had no holding place in their minds for this concept, and they expected every day that the doctor would tell them the point of the joke.
And it is we who call these people ‘primitive.’ The irony is mountainous.”
~Peter Kreeft
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