Dear Editor,
The only way to respond to David Kaeini’s latest
”
words from on high
”
(Letters – Jan. 29) is point-by-point.
1) He declares:
”
Since the legalization of abortion
… in 1973, 45,616,377 deaths have occurred. If this number of
killings is not disturbing … why should the holocaust or any other
war … bother you?
”
Dear Editor,
The only way to respond to David Kaeini’s latest “words from on high” (Letters – Jan. 29) is point-by-point.
1) He declares: “Since the legalization of abortion … in 1973, 45,616,377 deaths have occurred. If this number of killings is not disturbing … why should the holocaust or any other war … bother you?”
Where’d you find that number, Mr. Kaeini, and how honest is your source? Primarily, though, deaths of what? Death is: “a permanent cessation of all vital functions; the end of life” according to Webster’s. Kaeini cries: “Aborting this life at any stage of existence is killing that life …” It isn’t a “life,” Mr. Kaeini, it’s a parasite within the woman’s body whose existence is totally dependent on its host, the woman – and thus not life. It is a growth that, when fully developed, removed from its host and breathing on its own, becomes “life.” Is that so hard to understand?
For Kaeini to equate the surgical removal of a body’s parasite to those living human beings who died in war is as abominable as his ignorance of the difference.
2) Kaeini adds science now to justify his favorite falsehood: “… science has proven the existence of life from the moment of conception …” When and how? If any scientist(s) had proven this religious-based fantasy, it would have created global recognition. Time magazine would herald such with its “Person of the Year” honor. The Nobel Prize in science would have been given. All religions would have adapted their teachings to such knowledge. It hasn’t happened because no one, including Mr. Kaeini, knows when nor how (apart from physical life) the individual begins.
3) Mr. Kaeini’s absolutism claims: “You can’t be a Catholic and pro-abortion. If you support abortion … you have … placed yourself outside of the communion with the church teaching (and) thus no longer worthy of receiving communion or being a Catholic – period.” Is this Kaeini’s Catholic Church speaking with such arrogant judgment – or just Kaeini? Since he claims “Our churches are too busy these days braking church laws and creating their own little empires'” perhaps he’s taken it upon himself to speak for the church.
What most disturbs me about David Kaeini: his total lack of compassion, understanding, empathy and respect for any individual who chooses to live by his/her standards rather than under Kaeini’s unyielding religious dogmas.
Kaeini is beyond religious hysteria and beyond religious zealotry. He’s a religious intolerant: one “unwilling to grant or share social, political, or professional rights.” In today’s complex society, that’s a frightening attitude running amidst the people.
James Brescoll, Gilroy
