The God who does not condone

But no matter what we choose to believe, let us remember that there is no religion whose central tenet is hate. There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being. This much we know.

Or, so opined the President of the United States at the National Prayer Breakfast. At the 1994 event Blessed Teresa of Calcutta spoke these words which agree with the President's sentiment, but not his actions:

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.

Many people are very, very concerned with the children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about all the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions who are being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today - abortion which brings people to such blindness.

And so it would seem to be, that, on the one hand the killing of the innocent is condemned, and on the other the killing of the innocent unborn is justified and promoted. Yes, Mother Teresa, abortion brings people to moral blindness.

St. Agatha the martyr, pray for us!

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