ABCNews.Com reports that Cardinal Francis Arinze compared abortion and genetic research to the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
He appealed to Buddhists to work against “a culture of death, in which abortion, euthanasia and genetic experiments on human life itself have already obtained or are on the way to obtaining legal recognition.”
In his statement, Arinze said: “How can we not make a correlation between this culture of death in which the most innocent, defenseless, and critically ill human lives are threatened with death, and terrorist attacks, such as those of 11 September, in which thousands of innocent people were slaughtered?”
Even if I agreed with Arinze (and I’m diametrically opposed to him on all three issues), the comparison makes no sense. The last time I checked, the Sept. 11 terrorists were not part of our Western culture of death, but in fact were reactionary Islamists who rejected Western moral and scientific claims as decadent.
I suspect the Sept. 11 terrorists probably agreed with the Cardinal’s low opinion of Western culture.
Steve Denbeste’s comment also summed up my general feeling toward the Catholic Church at the moment,
I’m surprised he didn’t mention the use of birth control pills while he was at it. And child molestation – oh, wait a minute…