Day's Links - 2014-04-10

In yet another idiotic move, the post-Vatican II Church has decided to celebrate the division that came about as a result of Lutheranism, having issued  a communique entitled " FROM CONFLICT TO COMMUNION  Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017". The documente was evidently issued last year. I was worried this would happen. I dearly long for the days when the Church used to fight heresies instead of celebrating them!

It will be interesting to see if the Church spends more time in 2017 commemorating the Fatima apparitions than this sad incident. Alas, we can probably all guess what the answer to that will be.

According to one judge in the U.S., people  “compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives,”, but that's okay because 'compromise is “part of the glue that holds us together as a nation” and is “the price of citizenship.”' In other words, worshipping the state is the price you pay for living within a country's borders.

Surrogacy, IVF and reproductive technologies are the major theme of today's links. Included are links to 2 movies:

• Breeders - A subclass of women?
• Eggsploitation

 The sad decline of Beligum continues to gather pace remorselessly, as Wesley J. Smith informs us in "Belgian Docs Give Selves OK to Kill ICU Patients". It is not only the suffering and dying who are targets now. Another article titled "Belgium’s Terrible Decline" continues along the same lines.

It is obviously election season in the U.K. as some of their major political figures are all of a sudden speaking out against persecution of Christians.