November 21, 2005
THAT SURE BEATS "THE DEATH LOBBY":
The Catholics versus the Thanatics (Michael Moriarty, November 21, 2005, Enter Stage Right)
The heading of this article pretty much sums up what World War III will come down to. George W. Bush called our foes "the evil axis," although he neglected to include its entire membership, alongside Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida and Kim Jong Il of North Korea. There's quite a parcel, including his father George H.W. Bush, a brother of the Skull and Bones Society at Yale University - which automatically makes him a Thanatic."Thanatos," in ancient Greek, denotes death and the worship of death, the dialectical urge within Man to destroy himself. The Thanatics don't portray it as such. It would be politically counter-productive. Yet their support, tacit or otherwise, of Roe v. Wade and abortion puts them into the anti-life category and most definitely makes them anti-Catholic.
Gets pretty nutty, but that term, "Thanatics," is invaluable. Posted by Orrin Judd at November 21, 2005 8:24 AM
Not bad, bur the simple "pro-death" is more expressive than "thanatic" in a cultural setting in which even Latin, let alone Greek is manglesd and forgotten.
The basic observation is correct. The author could have gone on to point out that the queer lobby is a major component of Thanaticism. By attempting to culturally sunder sexual practices from the generation and rearing of children, the queer movement separates life from the force which drives life.
Repl. Obj.: It should have been too obvious to need to have been stated, but past disappointments have taugth me not to overestimate understanding of the fact that all male-female sexual activity, even when illicit, even when intentionally designed to frustrate the transmission of life, in some way partakes of the generative nature of the act. This is true even if one or both of the parties is physically incapable of physical reproduction or even if the act itself does not include intromission. What makes it so is just that it is heterosexual intimacy.
Posted by: Lou Gots at November 21, 2005 9:02 AMI think he's unfair to Bush pere.
I know GHW was never a consistent pro-lifer, however: during his administration my mother had a grant to study the effect of the urban drug epedemic on drug-addicted mothers and their babies. It involved spending a lot of time in East Harlem.
One of the things she discovered was that the Bush adminstration had a program for pregnant women in such areas that counseled them away from abortion, and towards having the babies, either to raise them themselves or give them up for adoption.
Needless to say, as soon as Clinton and his wife arrived in Washington, the program was scrapped.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at November 21, 2005 2:13 PMYou're crazy, no one 'worships death', what they worship is power, specifically the power to inflict death.
The leaders of death cults, be it the Thugee or the abortion lobby, never choose death for themselves, what they covet is the money and power that derives from reserving the right to order the death of others in the name of their 'god', whatever they call it, Kali, racial hygene, social justice or whatever.
Posted by: Amos at November 21, 2005 10:30 PM