The Ark and The Dove

Better for it...

Just read an article at MSN of all places on a study measuring the effect of Down Syndrome on happiness.

It turns out that the vast majority of families including a member with Down Syndrome report being happier because of that member. 79% in fact. We can't even get that percentage of people to agree on how to save our economy.

And i have to give the article credit for pointing out that

Thousands of women a year opt to terminate pregnancies when their unborn child has Down syndrome. Some estimates put that number as high as 90 percent

According to the article, only about 6000 persons with Down Syndrome are allowed to be born each year in our country.

The rest, parents refuse...and yet, as the study indicates, these people might actually be rejecting the very person who would bring them the most happiness in life.

Abortion, that great freedom and right which allows people to live their lives according to their own plans (assuming of course that something else that they hadn't anticipated doesn't intervene)...might actually yield a less happy life than the life they didn't plan on.

Who would have guessed it? Who could possibly be prescient enough to know what's best for us in the future?

I wonder...

Michael Moore Model Catholic!

Link to a Newsbuster's piece on Moore's highly advanced, sophisticated and thoroughly self-contradictory brand of Catholicism here.

Here's a question for the "social justice" Catholic: how often did Jesus actually seek out the poor for the purpose of giving them food and redistributing wealth? His first public miracle wasn't feeding poor people...it was making wine for a party. The loaves and fishes weren't donated to a soup kitchen -- they were multiplied because people came to hear Jesus speak and he felt bad that they hadn't packed lunch.

This probably sounds like I'm saying Jesus was some kind of suburban snob who didn't care about the poor. Obviously, that's not true.

My point (and I feel like I've typed this before...why does the Internet still ignore my wisdom?!?) is that Jesus' was a spiritual ministry. Feeding the hungry was second to leading souls away from sin and damnation.

Feeding the hungry is a way to lead one's soul away from sin...so, in that sense, alms-giving and spirituality overlap. But guys like Moore seem to subscribe to an idea that a hippie-Jesus just would be cool with whatever your lifestyle is so long as you volunteer in a soup kitchen.