by Susan
Fox
Dec. 12,
2014 – Today I am Rachel who weeps for her children and yet they are no more.
Twitter
ignored this tragedy, joining the ranks of the worshippers of Moloch, the ancient
god of child sacrifice.
Twitter blocked
the hashtag #Pray2EndAbortion from trending publicly on its Top Ten Feed. On
the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn, the hashtag
#Pray2EndAbortion snagged 30,078 tweets by midnight Mountain Time, according to
Topsy Analytics. It was clearly in the top ten tweets in the U.S.A., but it was
virtually invisible on the Twitter Trends feed.
This is
ironic as the Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has bragged about Twitter -- the
worst performing stock in 2014* – saying, “Twitter
is what we wanted it to be. It’s this real time information network where
everything in the world that happens on Twitter—important stuff breaks on
Twitter and world leaders have conversations on Twitter.”
Yet
“important stuff” occurred on Twitter Dec. 12, and the company suppressed the
information on its Trends Feed. They blocked some pro-life tweeters from
continuing participation in the pro-life Twitter Storm, alleging they had hit
their 1,000-tweet limit.
“Do you
believe in free speech or in censorship? Regardless of your opinion on issues,
I hope you believe in free speech. I was shut down on Twitter during this event,”
one pro-life tweeter, Molly Harrison, fumed on Facebook regarding the 2014
pro-life Twitter Storm.
Dr. Brian
and Esmeralda Kiczek, who started The End of Abortion Movement, announced that
prolifers united to trend #Pray2EndAbortion on Dec. 12. Starting at
1 p.m. EST they tweeted the hashtag 13,000 times, but Twitter ignored their
achievement. Instead #Rocktalk trended with only 8,000 tweets. I don’t even know
what #Rocktalk is about, except that it apparently appears on TV. This is 2014. Who watches TV anymore? That’s
so 1950s.
“Is Twitter
blocking hashtags that differ from their views?” the Kiczeks asked. “Even
though Twitter claims that their mission is: ‘To give everyone the power to
create and share ideas and information instantly without barrier.’ So, the
question is why was #Pray2EndAbortion blocked from trending?”
LifeNews.com, another powerful advocate for human life, is experiencing the same treatment from Facebook. "Facebook is making groups like LifeNews pay money to reach our own readers. At the same time, it is making it easier for the pro-abortion media to have their news stories show up in your timeline at Facebook," said Steven Ertelt, LifeNews Editor.
LifeNews.com, another powerful advocate for human life, is experiencing the same treatment from Facebook. "Facebook is making groups like LifeNews pay money to reach our own readers. At the same time, it is making it easier for the pro-abortion media to have their news stories show up in your timeline at Facebook," said Steven Ertelt, LifeNews Editor.
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| Dr. Brian & Esmeralda Kiczek |
The Kiczeks
are no stranger to persecution from Twitter. Last year, they organized the
successful #PraytoEndAbortion Twitter Storm that trended #1 in the U.S. and #5
in the world. Yet their main accounts, some with as many as 39,000 followers,
were blocked from appearing in any hashtag stream, including
#PraytoEndAbortion, and they were forced to open new accounts in order to
continue to stand up for life.
Actually,
this is a very good sign! For a servant is no greater than His Master: “Remember my word that I said to you: If they
have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my word,
they will keep yours also. (John 15:20)
“Twitter
can block my hashtag, but they cannot block my prayers,” Esmeralda Kiczek said
in a YouTube video she created with her cell phone. This is Esmerada Kiczek's cell phone video demonstration of #TwitterDiscrimination Her End of Abortion
Movement encourages people to pray the Rosary daily for the intention “the
end of abortion, contraception, euthanasia, and for religious freedom for
all."
The world
hates us and that’s good news! Because “the one who stands firm to the end will
be saved.” (Matt.10:22) And despite difficulty the Kiczeks and numerous other
pro-life Tweeters, whose accounts were also blocked last year, are standing
firm to the end, patiently opening new accounts when the old ones are rendered
useless. “It’s important for me to stand up for life. Children are worth
fighting for. Raise your voice against #TwitterDiscrimination,” Mrs Kiczek
said.
Oh, but it
would be so nice if the world agreed with us. But the persecution of the
#Pray2EndAbortion hashtag, the Kiczeks, the pro-life tweeters and and really
all who witness for the pro-life movement began long ago in the history of
ideas.
Poor aching
modern man has completely lost his identity. He is like Dorothy in the Wizard
of Oz, standing there in bright ruby red shoes, unaware that all he needs to do is
click his heels and he’ll be home.
Pre-Socratic
philosopher Parmenides, who witnessed and participated in the beginning of
Western thought, said, “Being is, non-being is not.” So entered the concept of
reality onto the stage of man’s thought about 500 B.C.
And such
thinking found a home in Christianity, which did a Vulcan mind meld with Greek
philosophy culminating in the brilliant and rational thinking of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Aquinas blessedly assumes that reality exists and can be perceived through the
senses. Later philosophers like Rene DesCartes will spend nauseating hours
worrying about proving the existence of reality, something Parmenides took for
granted. “I think therefore I am” was DesCartes best attempt to prove he
existed. That’s something that I simply take for granted.
But prior
to the Reformation, three ideas entered the thought of man – univocalism,
voluntarism and nominalism. The people who run Twitter are nominalists. They
don’t recognize reality. They believe they can make reality whatever they want.
Univocalism
blurred the distinctions between God and man. While Parmenides saw the reality
of existence, God told Moses, “I AM WHO AM.” God is Being In Himself. Man is
created and owes his being to God.
But
univocalism remade God in man’s image. Modern Twitter Atheists totally get
this. They created a god that is a vile parody of themselves. Then they reject him
and their own self-created form of Christianity. I reject this imaginary form
of Christianity as well. Twitter Atheists and I are on the same page on this
one, except they don’t realize they are rejecting their own distorted view of themselves.
Voluntarism
asks, "Is God bound by anything?" Answer according to voluntarists, “No.” This
form of thinking arose out of Islam, and found a home in Lutheranism and
Calvinism. But thanks to a courageous 13th century Franciscan,
Blessed Duns Scotus, the Catholic Church taught that God cannot will that which
is contrary to His Nature, His own goodness.
Hence right
is right and wrong is wrong. It doesn't change. The Calvinistic images in early American sermons
of God holding a hapless sinner over the fires of hell and deciding willy nilly
to fling him in there or not are false. The same thinking permeates Islam. Even
Mohammed did not know if he was going to enjoy 72 virgins (his version of
heaven) or suffer in hell for all eternity. In Islam, only those “martyrs” who
kill non-Muslims are assured of heaven. This, of course, means the “blessed”
suicide bombers of 9/11/2001.
Voluntarism
establishes an ethic rooted solely in the will of man. And with nominalism, the
individual no longer needs a church, a tradition or an authority to be
sanctified and come to knowledge of the truth. Ever hear anyone tell you “I
read the Bible. I pray in the woods. I don’t need a Church, a building, an
institution.” They have reduced the Living Church Christ founded on the rock of
Peter to a cold lifeless building or a walk in the woods!
Nominalists
believe that knowledge of things resides solely in the mind of man, and not in
the thing itself. So you might wonder, if I look at my computer and see a
mouse, is my computer a mouse? No that’s not how it works. But if I look at my
unborn child and see a blob of cells? Well that is nominalism.
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| A newly "married" couple after a same-sex "marriage" ceremony with adopted daughter |
Man cannot
even recognize his own offspring any longer. And while there is something
called the institution of marriage, if I look at my same sex relationship, and
decide it is the same thing as marriage, then it is. This great darkness –
nominalism – clouds the mind of the U.S. Supreme Court and forms the basis of the
1973 Roe v Wade and recent decisions legalizing same sex “marriage.”
The last
three popes have spent a lot of money on ink just to try and convince modern man
that he is a person made in the image and likeness of God, who is Being in
Himself. And in fact man’s own children – born and unborn -- are made in the
image and likeness of God. God is love. He is no blob of cells, my friend.
I tweet at
these atheist humanist nominalists: “Dear Mr. Blob, if an unborn child is a
blob of cells, what are you?” Answer: “A blob of cells.”
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| Blob of Cells? |
Well blobs
of cells don’t get funerals. And blobs of cells don’t matter. And blobs of
cells can be murdered at will. And people who stand up for blobs of cells are
hate mongers. They are interfering with the convenience of a useful blob of
cells, the family member wanting the unborn or elderly dead. Yes, I am certain that Twitter feels justified in censoring
an important pro-life voice on their twitter feed because pro-lifers by being “anti-choice” are hate
mongers. This is upside down thinking.
Sadly on
one abortion link I found a loan officer, who survived a
failed abortion, and still calls herself “pro-choice.” Why? “My mother had her
reasons same as every other woman in the world,” Emily said, dismissing all
pro-lifers with these words, “Unless you
people have gone through an unplanned pregnancy where the father left you to
deal with it all on your own, all while trying to push your way through college
classes and two jobs, you have no place to talk about this subject.”
“Dear
Emily,” I responded, “The failure in your situation is the heartless human race!
If there were people willing to help you dear, you would not have killed your
unborn child. How blessed you are to have lived through your mother's poor
choice. Shouldn't you offer the mercy that God extended to you to others --
like your own unborn children? I had two miscarriages. And I still grieve. If they were alive, Raphael would be
28 and Christina would be 24. I am Rachel who weeps for her children, yet they
are no more.”
But for me,
Raphael and Christina are people. Emily doesn't believe that. Unborn blobs of cells can be killed because they have no utilitarian purpose -- at the moment. But we don’t run around killing healthy adults because they serve our utilitarian convenience. An unborn child, a handicapped or elderly person does not
serve our convenience. Hence we have the right to kill them, i.e. “end their
suffering.”
So we have
the philosophical law of non-contradiction contradicted. In the same hospital,
one child aborted before birth struggles for breath abandoned in a bucket in
the hallway, while another prematurely born child is given the best medical
care and lives. One elderly person’s life is saved, and another is starved and
dehydrated to death. Nominalists believe that knowledge of
things resides solely in the mind of man, and not in the thing itself. Hence human life and marriage can become whatever you define it to be.
Fascinating
that on the day of the 2014 Pro-Life Twitter Storm, Life News came out with a
piece: “Unborn babies feel anger and joy, Psychotherapist’s Study Says.” In
fact they do. And they also reported Friday that a pro-abortion study admits
that thousands of women are hospitalized every year from botched abortions.
But the
good news is that despite the blindness of nominalism, abortions decreased by 6
percent in the United States between 2000 and 2009. The number of abortion
clinics continues to decline due to a reduction in demand for abortion. Operation Rescue released a report that showed
that over two-thirds of the nation's abortion clinics have closed in the past
18 years.
Can we thank courageous pro-life witnesses like the Kiczeks and numerous
individuals who tweeted pro-life messages during the Twitter Storm Dec. 12?
Yes, we can.
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| Matthew Reynolds tweeted this Dec. 12 |
I am a
Christian realist. Blessed Duns Scotus, St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope John Paul II
and Pope Benedict are all Christian realists.
We believe that God is Being in Himself, all good, all knowing, eternal
and infinite. And He made the creature man in His own Image. God is love. Man has
the capacity for great love. We believe
in universals like one, holy Catholic Church, established by Christ to be His Holy Living Presence in the world until the end of time.
My computer
is not a mouse. No matter what I think, it is a computer. I exist and have value whether I can think or
not. God is not made in my image. I am made wonderfully in His Image. And my
marriage is not based on a “feeling” but a mutual decision blessed by the
Church that Christ founded when He said, “You are Peter, and upon this rock I
will build my Church.”
And I tell
you, my friend, my unborn child is not a blob of cells. He is also a person
made in the image and likeness of God, who actually experiences joy and sorrow
in the womb. My life has value until natural death no matter how inconvenient
my suffering is for those around me.
And I echo
the feelings of my Twitter priest friend, “God – if need be – please take away my freedom, but never
let me worship Moloch or any of his progeny.” And I would include Twitter,
which in the ignorance and blindness of nominalism, has decided, “Thou shalt
not kill – unless you are inconvenient, old or unborn.”
*According
to the CNNMoney’s Tech 30 Index.
