Hiroshima
Fulton
Sheen, during a talk to school students about sex,
said the moral turning point of the country was "8:15 in the morning, the
6th of August, 1945" when the world changed: The dropping of the bomb on
Hiroshima blotted out boundaries. There
was no longer a boundary between the military and the civilian, between the
helper and the helped, between the wounded and the nurse and the doctor, and
the living and the dead. For even the
living who escaped the bomb were already half dead. So we broke down boundaries and limits and
from that time on the world has said we want no one limiting me. ... You want
no restraint, no boundaries. I have to
do what I want to do.
Years ago, the renowned
Catholic theologian Joseph Pieper privately observed (to a friend of
mine) that Americans need to come to terms with the immorality of the World War
II atomic bombings before we can make real progress in stigmatizing
abortion. The moral arguments justifying
abortion and the bombings are remarkably similar: The actions are necessary as
"a lesser evil" or to "prevent a greater evil."
(CERC)
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