9 As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. 2 And HiThe human will is often stronger than one disability. Over the years, I found this concept true when working with young and older adults with a physical, mental or severe learning disability- when you give people hope by reminding that they can do it, many will rise to that level.
When a child is born with a disability, we look for professionals and services to help them overcome their barriers.
It worries me that the same propaganda Hitler mouthed off in the pre-world war two days is once again rearing it's ugly head with the talk of designer DNA, cloning and using selective abortion to eliminate what we do not want. It is my humble opinion that we're playing God and making decisions we're not meant to be making.
In Nazi Germany, propaganda and a deteriorating economy, lead Hitler set up concentration camps and send anyone that didn't fit his mindset of a perfect race to the gas chambers. It all sounded good at the time- to use those sanitarians to house the war injured instead of the severely disabled. In an article from the Catholic culture is this statement, "The juxtaposition of severe economic constraints, crowded asylums, the attachment of levels of economic viability to human worth, and the sense that people with disabilities formed a burdensome and often criminal element in society all significantly added fuel to ethical debates concerning euthanasia and sterilization. By the late 1930s, there was an open discussion among many asylum administrators about actually killing inmates"https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7019
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Every child, regardless of disability or race deserves the chance to show what they can do in the eyes of God.
The Catholic church is under attack, but I know from experience that it is the worldwide catholic orphanages, run by our nuns, that have been a refuge to children.
In one case from that era, they described the Knauer child as a frail child with several severe disabilities ( their opinion). While the case has become quite mythologized, it seems that she was blind, without one leg and part of an arm, severely mentally retarded, and suffered from chronic convulsions (Friedlander, 1995; Lifton, 1986; Proctor, 1988). Her father petitioned the Nazi authorities to grant her a "merciful death" but received no official response. Subsequent to this request, in the winter of 1938-1939, the Knauer child was admitted to the University of Leipzig's pediatric clinic after attending physicians discussed her plight with her persistent father. Aside from the child's obvious physical and intellectual disabilities, the father asserted that the child, by remaining at home, was causing his wife significant psychological and emotional stress. He requested that the physicians proceed by "putting it to sleep." Initially, the doctors refused, reminding the father that such action was against the law. Undaunted, the father, encouraged by the child's grandmother, petitioned Hitler directly to sanction the child's death (Gallagher, 1990).
Arguably, the persistence of this one man became the catalyst for official genocide.
In my own editorial opinion, I wondered if the boy's father had looked into himself for his wife's unhappiness he might have discovered that he was indeed the problem, not the Knauer boy's disability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIjZ7Hbi7Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz8ge4aw8Ws
Meanwhile, on this side of the ocean, there was a lady by the name of Margaret Sanger who started her own propaganda machine by maliciously referring to blacks as worthless human beings. She founded the Birth Control Society which later became Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion machine this world has ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYNFoB3d0P8
All told, Abortion was the number one cause of death worldwide in 2018, with more than 41 million children killed before birth, Worldometers reports. As of December 31, 2018, there have been some 41.9 million abortions performed in the course of the year, Worldometers revealed. Since the Roe v Wade abortion decision there were a total of 60,069,971 abortions committed.
All told, 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust (1.1 million children). 6 million of those victims were Jewish. It is so wrong when we place an economic value on human lives with the non-disabled receiving the greatest value.
In John 9 are these words:9 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
Within each human life in this world is the potential of God's holy spirit to take root in their soul and help that person do mighty things despite their disability. All it takes for that to happen is for the person to say, "yes Lord", please come into my heart.
Just as one man changed the world by convincing Hitler to kill his son, there was another man, who entered the world as God's son who took this vicious vile sin upon his shoulders and died on that cross for that sin and gives hope and life to all who receive Him
Through Jesus Christ, we have the hope our changed lives will literally change the world. By now, I hope you have picked up my pro-life stance and I am. I believe in the sanctity of human life in the womb and I believe that every child deserves life regardless of their race, creed, or disability just as it says in John 9, 'to have the works of God displayed in them.
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