What happens when religious dogma and real life clash? If you think there would be the metaphysical equivalent of an explosion – you guessed correctly.

I just listened to an NPR radio program where the situation was described:

A woman presented to A Catholic hospital pregnant. The doctors determined that she and the baby would die if they did not abort the baby. The doctors told the woman that her chances of dying were pretty much about 100%. The woman agreed to the abortion.

The hospital director was a Nun who had to make the decision to go against Church Doctrine in order to save the woman’s life. She made that decision and was promptly excommunicated by the presiding Bishop.

If I understand Catholicism correctly, the Nun’s soul is now in peril and she will not be able to go to heaven.

The Bishop, in an interview said, “You cannot commit evil to do good.”

An interesting point was brought up on the program. Why has not a single pedophile priest been excommunicated? And there have been many pedophile priests – I do not think anyone is going to argue that point. Many known and proven pedophile priests have not even be defrocked after decades of exposure.

Yet, the Nun, who faced the agonizing decision to save a woman’s life, was immediately excommunicated.

The bishop was certainly unapologetic (excuse the pun) and defended his position strongly.

Should this Nun have been excommunicated? Was it right for the Nun to give consent to the abortion – when the doctors agreed that it was necessary to save the mother’s life?

Is the Catholic church correct in it’s viewpoint that not a single baby should ever be aborted for any reason – including putting the mother’s life at risk?

Comment below… (All viewpoints welcome! – Discussion is healthy!)

Have you ever had the distinct notion that people really do not know what they want or even what they are looking for? I believe this to be true because you can find someone who states that they want a solution to something. You offer them the perfect solution and yet they are not interested.

Next, you see this person get something that you know for sure is not going to help them solve the problem they stated to you. It is really interesting.

You try to help someone and they turn down that help and go in a direction that you know will not help them. Some people have to learn the hard way, I guess. In fact, it seems that most people have to learn the hard way.

It is also insulting when people don’t trust you enough to take your advice. But, that is life. Everyone, is living in a world of confusion. If they knew the perfect answer for themselves, they wouldn’t be looking for any answers.

This shows how incredibly ignorant human kind is. I am not singling anyone out here. I am including myself. So do not think that I am talking directly to you. I really mean all of us that are human.

Take the topic of gum disease for example. It is an important problem that many people have. Yet, most people are not aware that they even have gum disease. They will not believe you even if you tell them.

However, the statistics that dental care professionals share with us indicate that up to 80% of people have gum disease right now. You can talk to people until you are blue in the face about this problem, but they still won’t believe they have it or that they should do anything about it.

It is kind of like bad breath. Many people have it, but they don’t seem to realize that they have it. They get use to their own breath.

We live in a strange world.

Find the best meditation practice at FalunDafa.org

A wonderful show is coming to a city near you: ShenYunPerformingArts.com

Copyright 2009 – Do not copy.

My book is now being sold directly by the people at Therabreath.

You can see it here.

This is personally exciting for me because it amounts to a major pat on the back and third party validation.

The value of this book is very high. And to have others start to recognize it is very gratifying.

There are many problems in the world today. This is book is not just a book about Gum Disease.

This book provides valuable insight into the human condition and the world around us.

This is a book that everyone should have on their shelf!

Click here to see the book on Therabreath’s site!

Comment below!

Thank you for your support!

David Snape

Just to give you a little background: About 7 years ago, I went to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to protest the human rights violations against the peaceful Falun Gong – who are being persecuted brutally by the Chinese Communist Party.

They said they weren’t arresting us – there were about 70 of us from various western countries. But, they held us against our will. Some were beaten. They told us that they would not allow us to talk to our embassies – which is a violation of International Law. So, it sure felt like being arrested. But on the other hand, what they did was illegal because their is nothing in the Chinese Constitution that says you can’t protest human rights violations.

But this is how the Chinese Communist Party Rolls.

So anyway, I have occasionally twittered out the address: http://ninecommentaries.com on twitter.

Well today, I get a phone call from a strange sounding Chinese guy who says he is from the State of Kansas, where I live. What was strange is that his number showed up as 000-000-0000 on my cell phone.

He sounded like he was from some government office and wanted to verify the address of my business. I did so.

I thought he was an official from Kansas, but then I saw the number.

I asked him who he was and he pretended that he couldn’t hear me, “sir”, “sir” he said – and then the phone went dead.

Well, I’m no stranger to this kind of thing. In fact, most Falun Gong practitioners that have been active against the persecution get calls like this.

First, my statement to the Chinese agents who will inevitably read this: Your time will not last. Your crimes are being recorded and when the time comes you will be tried in International Courts just like the Nazis were.

You think you are documenting us, but we are documenting you and your criminal activities. So, I guess your best bet is to quit the CCP and go back to a normal life and hope that you are not remembered when the time comes to start prosecuting the Communist party members one by one….

Now that I got that off my chest. My question to the others who read this is: What do you think I should do about today’s event and how do you feel about what happened? How do you feel about communist agents harassing people outside of their own borders or within their own borders for that matter: you can read about their crimes at http://faluninfo.net

Please leave your comments.

Dave

Sign Up for Updates on This Blog:

It is a very interesting thing when you talk about freedom in China.  You have leading liberal thinkers in China calling for an end to the many injustices and human rights violations that occur under the current communist regime.  One has only to visit ninecommentaries.com a read just a little bit of the commentaries to realize that there are real problems in China that must be dealt with. 

This is the most populous nation in the world and it is having these terrible injustices where innocent and even very productive members of society are being tortured and beaten for something as simple as saying ‘democracy is good’ or Falun Dafa is good ( a peaceful meditation group that strives to be and do good). 

When you have such a destructive system of government, what can you do to change it?  There has to be a way. What do you think?