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Holland, a lesson on the 'slippery slope' - From Across the Pond
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By Darren Collins
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During the late 1980s and early 1990s Holland was the doyenne of liberal Europe, it had taken a stand on abortion and was to take a rather unique position on euthanasia, drugs, and prostitution. Who would know that just a few years later Holland would have turned into a land where generations had been destroyed by drugs, death, and depravity? Any person who had read the Bible, that's who.
Abortion was legalised in Holland quite late as compared with most of Europe, 1979, the situation with prostitution being confined to certain areas had been the case since the mid-60's, cannabis laws have been broken and ignored since the early 60's, and euthanasia and assisted suicide were legalised around 2000.
The damning statistics of abortion (12% of all conceptions end in surgical abortion), and euthanasia (around 15% of the people who die in Holland) abound, but those really are secondary, because statistics are simply numbers. Although, what these statistics represent is life being destroyed cruelly, mercilessly, and horribly; this we should never forget. What the liberal establishment in Holland don't publicise is that abortion is having a dramatic effect on the numbers in the female population, and that abortion is being used against women primarily.
Euthanasia was legalised because have some half-baked idea that individuals have the 'right to die', when the truth is that life is given by God and is sacred, and thus no, we do not have the right to take means to end our lives prematurely. During this time of lent we remember the pain and suffering of Jesus, and that through his gift of death humanity has been redeemed. Also, the tragedy of euthanasia can be seen no more perfectly than if we would imagine that our Holy Father in Rome could be first in line to be euthanised.
Life is not something that we can just throw away when it becomes inconvenient for us, what is this world coming to when country's that are admired for their liberality will not treat babies born prematurely, and where parents have the authority to euthanise young children. It pains me that this culture of death has gone so far, and every day I pray that the Dutch, and the rest of the world, will see the error of their ways.
Holland is a clear example of what can happen in a society when we start on the slippery slope of legalised murder, we get the killing of people because they can no longer be accepted in society. Christians should look at Holland as a warning about the holocaust of babies, the holocaust of girls, the holocaust of the disabled, and the holocaust of the elderly; they should have no doubt in their minds what is right, and what needs to be done.
I speak as an Englishman who has never been to Holland. However, I primarily speak as a Catholic Christian whose heart is torn by such acts, and I ask every person who reads this article to say a prayer that governments around the world will stop the butchering, that the Dutch Christians may be strengthened in their resolve, and that we may act with more clarity in our path.
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