ANTI- LIFE AND FAMILY LIFE ON THE RISE FINAL PART3

The Church promotes life and family as way forward

Based on discussions and presentations surrounding the issue on sanctity of human life and the values inherent in family life at the Conference, we hereby declare as follows:

i.          Life is God’s gift and this life starts at conception and can only be taken by him. Every man and woman is created in the image and likeness of God. Thus, every nation, every institution, every man and woman must respect, protect and uphold the dignity of human life.

ii.          The family is the cradle where life is nurtured and protected. Thus, every family as a matter of necessity must create a conducive environment where the value of life is imbued and upheld. Pastors of souls should pay serious attention to the preparatory stages of marriage for family life and help families facing different challenges to grow, trusting in God without losing their faith.

iii.          The sanctity and sacredness of sacramental marriage is instituted by God as a union between a man and a woman only. Thus, every other form of union is contrary to the mind of the Creator. Inclinations that are inimical to the mind of the Creator must be fought by all, reminding people of what life means and what the family stands for. Also, credible ethical alternatives about human life, family life, sexuality and relationships should be taught by Pastors of souls.

iv.          Every form of deception by different Agencies, Organisations, and Individuals, to promote the fact that abortion should be seen as a right that cthat can be determined by the individual should be rejected. As such, those who legislate on the laws of our country should reject every pressure and attempt to legalize the killing of babies in the womb.

v.          The promotion of chastity should be given priority. This should entail a suitable sex education of the young, by the parents, who are the first and best teachers, to school teachers and pastors of souls. Such education should include: “the Love of life; appreciation, love and respect for one’s body; respect for the person of others, regardless of their physical characteristics and sexual orientations; the search for and acceptance of one’s identity and the roles that depend on it; respect for freedom; the sense of responsibility in sexual activity”, among others into consideration.

It is urgent that discerning individuals and institutions defend life and family, the two main gifts that have indiscriminately molded humanity most positively through the ages against deceitful and post-modernist fads which undermine cultures and our innate consciousness of the Divine.  We would simply be saving our own lives.

ANTI -LIFE AND FAMILY VALUE ON THE RISE PATR2

Trends challenging human life and family values

1.      The world as a whole will always have its problems and challenges but these challenges should never be confused with ones which have a well-organised and unfortunately sinister origin.

Secular (atheistic, religious, ideological and imperialistic) Humanism is the concept under which they all operate. These challenges include the modern epidemics of sexism, contraception, immorality, pornography, hedonism, abortion, broken homes, homosexuality, crass materialism, so called same sex marriages, international terrorism, rape, crisis in the religious as well as family life, and a lot more.

Drawing from the articles of faith of Secular Humanism as most succinctly expressed within their cycle, especially that on the “death” of God as well as that of the absence of anything called sin, the evils that these have created are all there for everybody to see. Such terms as fornication and adultery have completely disappeared from human literature – including the books of many of the new age religions, even in Christianity! These two sins are now referred to as pre-marital or extra-marital sex – because for Secular Humanism, all sexual intercourses are the same, whether pre-marital, intra-marital or extra-marital!

Abortion has become “menstrual regulation”, “menstrual induction”, “menstrual extraction”, the “removal of the products of conception” or the “termination of a mere pregnancy”. Some of these people have also demanded openly that pregnancy be considered a disease. Hence the whole of society is rapidly sliding into a serious moral and spiritual death; and few people are seeing or realising it!