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To the editor:
Finally admitting what was only a masquerade as a devout Catholic, in a taped interview President Joe Biden proudly proclaimed, "I don't believe in the Catholic doctrine concerning abortion," suggesting that his government would be the determiner of what was acceptable belief.
Biden, denying the Apostolic Didache as lies, and even the Ten Commandments, existing for more than 3,300 years, as being no longer valid, finally publicly revealed his disdain for the religion he claims to follow, boasting of his "denial of the importance or even existence of religious truth." (H.W. Cocker III: "Triumph.")
As a result, this country has been saddled for more than three years with the most anti-Catholic administration since the Know Nothing Party of the 19th century. We already see this administration sending FBI swat teams to arrest pro-life people for standing in the wrong place, inaction in stopping Jane's Revenge from firebombing crisis pregnancy centers and desecrating churches, the occupant of the Oval Office threatening persecution of pro-life medical personnel and Catholic hospitals for refusing his proposed mandatory participation in inherent evil. Constitutional freedom of religion means nothing to these autocrats, who worship only the golden calf of a political party.
"It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which also is taught by apostolic authority." (Pope Leo XIII: "Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae.") Believing the mistaken ideology of anthropocentric autonomy put forth in the writings of Descartes, Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche, the gentleman and his minions naturally gravitate to the century-old statement of the ultimate fallacy of this philosophy: "The right to life is not absolute, some have no right to exist." (Adolph Hitler: "Mein Kampf.")
The gentleman should pay attention to another, quite different German: "Whether born or unborn … each one bears God's breath in himself or herself, each one in God's image." (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger) One's riches and power do not exempt one from the need to repent and "make good for the depth of their guilt for having spurned my precepts and abhorred my statutes." (Leviticus 27:43)
As is all mankind, I, too, am a sinner, but my sins generate shame and desire for amendment and are between my confessor and me, not gleefully boasted about in taped interviews. I believe in the validity of "Evangelium Vitae," the sanctity of life, and am concerned about displeasing my God, not with catering to the moral turpitude of the militant godless.
Ed Bednar
Wintersville