Apparently in Canada it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 This little gem of a story<\/a> has made its rounds, as one can expect.\u00a0 Now, that a mother can go crazy and slaughter her children is all but an accepted part of modern life.\u00a0 How common it was in the not-too-old days is hard to say.\u00a0 But after so many cases, we\u2019ve come to realize the sympathies, while reserved in some parts for the young victims, tend to lie heavily with the mothers in question.\u00a0 So it\u2019s no shock to see the judge say this:<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a classic infanticide case \u2014 killing a newborn after a hidden pregnancy by a mother who was alone and unsupported.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This little bit of clinical observation coming in the story after this paragraph:<\/p>\n Court of Queen\u2019s Bench Justice Joanne Veit said the public naturally grieves for the dead baby boy. You see, there is some grieving for the dead baby boy, but hey, let\u2019s not forget Mom!\u00a0 I give you one of the tragic byproducts of radical feminism.\u00a0 Not that there isn\u2019t a place for the mentally insane who would do such things, and even a place for forgiveness.\u00a0 But the idea that the grief for the mother deserves to be within a million miles of the grief for the innocent baby, is part and parcel of feminism\u2019s mantra of \u2018equality always whenever convinient\u2019, and the second mantra no less important than the first: \u2018women matter, everything else?\u00a0 Eh.\u2019<\/p>\n But even that isn\u2019t what has sent people over the edge.\u00a0 That comes from another part of the decision regarding the case<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that Canada has no abortion laws reflects that \u2018while many Canadians undoubtedly view abortion as a less than ideal solution to unprotected sex and unwanted pregnancy, they generally understand, accept and sympathize with the onerous demands pregnancy and childrbirth exact from mothers, especially mothers without support,\u2019 she writes. It\u2019s that comparison to abortion that has many on edge.\u00a0 Now some have tried to put a positive spin on this, suggesting that the comparison at least admits what abortion is: the slaughter of an unborn child.\u00a0 But me?\u00a0 I\u2019m not so sure.\u00a0 I think it is the logical consequence of our post-Christian narrative.<\/p>\n You see, the post-Christian, post-modern, progressive narrative goes something like this:<\/p>\n Once upon the time cavemen created God because they couldn\u2019t figure out why the sun rose and set.\u00a0 Meanwhile, humans being nothing more than glorified animals, lived in harmony with nature, relishing equality, women\u2019s rights, gay rights, and the wonders of socialized medicine while making love in the green grass behind the stadium without nary a\u00a0consequence.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Of course, then came the dark days, the age of the Christian Faith.\u00a0 From here the world was taught intolerance, sexism, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and a hatred of science, learning, intelligence, and socialized medicine.\u00a0 Over the next two thousand years, it was \u2018a never ending symphony of villainy and infamy\u2019*, until, finally, the Renaissance happened, enlightened men stopped believing in God, invented science and learning, brought back tolerance, equality, diversity, free and inconsequential sex, and of course, socialized medicine.\u00a0 As soon as we\u2019ve swept away the last relics of that ancient force of stupidity and evil, the world will right itself and we\u2019ll truly enter into that Utopian paradise of sex, drugs, bathroom humor, government censorship for the glorious tolerance, and socialized medicine. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, that\u2019s fine as far as it goes.\u00a0 But there is, and historically had been, a different view.\u00a0 That view is that despite its flaws and failings, the ideas of the dignity of the human person, equality of the human person, and fundamental rights to be enjoyed by the human person came as a result of, not despite, the Christian contributions to Western Civilization.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Outside of this tradition was a world of barbarism, slaughter, rape, incest, human sacrifice, ritual torture (some of which found its way into European civilization), infanticide, matricide, patricide, and every other -cide you can think of.\u00a0 The strong dominated and consumed the weak, and that\u2019s how it was because that\u2019s how animals do it.\u00a0 But it was the Christian faith as much as anything \u2013 so the old stories went \u2013 that put an end to many of these terrors.<\/p>\n For decades we\u2019ve denied that, suggesting that such tales were fanciful propaganda by the Church (you know, THAT Church), in order to justify its corruption and lust for wealth, power, and world conquest.\u00a0 While most enlightened thinkers knew that our only hope for a world of peaceful chanting of John Lennon songs was to uncover the veil of deception, and release humanity to our pre-Christian enlightenment.<\/p>\n But there are a few problems with this little tale of Christian horrors.\u00a0 One, archaeological evidence continues to show us that some of those old tales of human sacrifice and brutal, barbaric living might have something to them after all<\/a>.\u00a0 Second, the progressive mantra that \u2018White European and American heterosexual men are the manifestation of\u00a0sadistic evil and the singular cause of all human suffering in the world\u2019<\/em> might be a bit of a stretch, especially as we notice other cultures doing bad things<\/a>, or controversial things<\/a>, no matter how much we try to blame the aforementioned.<\/p>\n Finally, there is this story.\u00a0 For all the decades and even centuries of promising us that to rid ourselves of religion would bring peace, love, and harmony\u2026has it?\u00a0 The 20th century was the least religiously driven century in history.\u00a0 A time of peace?\u00a0 Anyone?\u00a0 Bueller?<\/p>\n Is our culture thriving?\u00a0 Are we growing in tolerance, joy, happiness, and togetherness?\u00a0 Or are things like this \u2013\u00a0a mother slaughtering a baby and society saying no problem \u2013 proof that when we toss out the Christian, we don\u2019t get Utopia, we get what was there before: a barbaric, kill or be killed, eat or be eaten rape, pillage and murder world?\u00a0 Not because its values call for better though its adherents fail, but because that is exactly what the values end up promoting, just as they did before the light of enlightenment\u00a0came, not in the guise of science and secular philosophies, but came through the stubble and straw surrounding a baby in a manger so many ages ago.\u00a0\u00a0 Food for thought, at least IMHO. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut Canadians also grieve for the mother,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The judge noted that infanticide laws and sentencing guidelines were not altered when the government made many changes to the Criminal Code in 2005, which she says shows that Canadians view the law as a \u2018fair compromise of all the interests involved.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n