Holocaust of the Childlike: The Progress of a Spiritual War by Daniel Schwindt

Author:Daniel Schwindt [Schwindt, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781492895473
Amazon: 1492895474
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-10-05T22:00:00+00:00

The ‘child-free’ movement

All of this culminates in a cultural atmosphere which is actively hostile to the child both before he enters it and after. Sometimes I cannot think of much else to say except to echo Balthasar’s words: “Everywhere outside of Christianity the child is automatically sacrificed.”[201]

We now live in a nation which cannot bring itself to offer the protections of personhood to a fetus which has a beating human heart in its chest.[202] Yet the same justice system is courageous enough to offer these protections to the legal fiction known as the corporation.[203] The profundity of this contradiction should take one’s breath away. It is not necessarily all that surprising that these two legal decisions could have been made (nothing should surprise us at this point); no, what is shocking is that they have come to exist simultaneously and side-by-side and from the same legislature and court. It reveals a great boldness in regard to the protection of the business entity while at the same time showing a great cowardice in respect to a human entity. The prejudice implicit in the situation is, needless to say, extreme. It shows, as Chesterton would say, an infernal orientation towards dead things rather than life. Like marriage and the family, the child himself has become a victim of abstraction whose reality can be decided based on public opinion and individual whim. He becomes yet another traditional truth fallen victim to a materialistic majority.

So, we can see that the war against the child has only accelerated since the orders of Herod after Christ’s birth. The hunt has not hesitated but accelerated, in more or less vicious forms, since the beginning of time. War is still being made on innocence, expressing itself in many diverse yet ever more conspicuous ways. As the enemy gains ground, he grows confident and flaunts his authority, even though he must know it to be only ephemeral. Each new anti-child blow is evidence of his flaunting. The growing “anti-child movement” is an excellent example of this, and so in closing we can enumerate a few examples of its progress:

In 2007, Corrine Maier published “No Kids: 40 Good Reasons Not to Have Children” in Europe. It was quite a hit. A couple years later it was republished here in the States, and was again a hit. Chapter 1 is entitled “The ‘desire for children’: A silly idea”. Chapter 34 is “Motherhood or success: Pick one”. You might say that Maier is at least informed about her topic; she is a mother of two herself.

Leavethembehind.com is a website which helps adults find vacation spots that don’t allow children. Airlines also are introducing measures to offer child-free flights. Where there is a demand, there is a market, eh?

There is a village called Firhall in Scotland, in which villagers must agree to have zero children (but one dog is acceptable).

Family benefits are now being called “affirmative action for mothers.”

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