Beware of the History Channel on a rainy day.
While I sipped my tea and listened to the rain patter, the History Channel dug up a dead civilization and found a large sewer that held thousands of baby bones, victims of infanticide, a common practice of this ancient, forgotten society.
Anthropologists tell us two of the biggest indicators of a doomed civilization are the practice of infanticide and human sacrifice. In other words, cultures and species that kill their own young do not survive. If history really does repeat itself, then American society may also be doomed to extinction.
What will future archaeologists discover when they dig up America? We have a highly sophisticated form of disposal of our young, before birth rather than after. But is America, in reality, practicing a sanitized version of infanticide and human sacrifice?
Is America sacrificing its soul, and its young, on the altar of convenience? Does it bow down to the corrupt pagan god of moral expediency? Is anything really wrong anymore or only those things that disrupt people's lives and their plans?
Awash in a sea of moral turpitude, many Americans have become a sex-obsessed, sex-addicted society. They are hooked on pornography, perversion, promiscuity, adultery and depravity. And, in a total abandonment of human dignity, people proclaim themselves mindless animals, wanton slaves to hormones and incapable of self-control. They condone the Plan B over-the-counter “morning-after” solution, never even considering giving up the night before.
They reject personal responsibility and force innocent third parties to pay for reckless sexual indiscretions. They lead promiscuous lives, and the blameless unborn pay the ultimate price, so they won't mess up their last semester of school, miss out on a job promotion or be forced to pay child support. And, in a complete act of lunacy, the U.S. Supreme Court puts its stamp of approval on the mass eradication of our offspring.
This isn't an issue of political or religious persuasion, the Left or the Right. This is an issue of being irresponsible members of the human family. Any time an innocent member of the human family, born or unborn, must sacrifice his or her life, safety, health or happiness to advance a sexual agenda, rid people of consequences and make life easier, that is an immoral act, no matter what one's political or religious affiliation. That is a crime against humanity. Such self-serving behavior violates one's family and deifies the culture of sexual hedonism.
And, in the saddest indictment of a twisted modern society, feminists, who have battled so mightily for so many decades for women's rights, sadly now crusade for the right of women to destroy their offspring. And the appalling, sickening hypocrisy, the excruciating irony of it all is that one half of the babies who succumb to this mass destruction are females.
And these same feminists, who struggle for and demand justice and equality in their own lives, now deny their unborn sisters that which they have already been afforded, the most fundamental of all human rights, to take their place, on this planet, with their sisterhood.
Does one really have an inherent “right to choose” to exterminate one's offspring? Or is the only rational choice to use one's sacred, life-giving capacity to perpetuate the human species in a reasonable, compassionate manner, so no third party must suffer the consequences? Any other choice cheapens, dehumanizes and corrupts society. Humanity ought to be able to rise above it. There are civilized, humane solutions to managing reproductive capability. Decimating future generations is not one of them.
A wrongly accused politician once said, “Where do I go to get back my good name?” Where does America go to get back its moral clarity? Where does one go to get back human dignity, decency, honor and self-respect? Where does one go to get back knowledge of, and belief in, the acceptance of personal responsibility for one's own actions, so no one else is forced to pay the ultimate price for decadence, debauchery, egotistical self-indulgence and irresponsibility?
Or will the light of America eventually be extinguished? Flushed away into the ancient sewer of mankind. Just another failed, forgotten civilization. Just another rerun on the History Channel of the future.
Connie Lynne Carrillo is a freelance writer who lives in Kansas City. You can write to the author c/o The Kansas City Star Editorial Dept. 1729 Grand Blvd. Kansas City, MO. 64108 or email oped@kcstar.com.
