Holy Innocents, and Standing up to Corrupt Politicians
December 28th and 29th are among the important feast days in the Christmas Season, as they are respectively the feast of the Holy Innocents and St. Thomas Becket (of Canterbury). The feast of Holy Innocents commemorates the children of Bethlehem who were murdered on the order of king Herod; who was trying to kill the Christ Child in the mix. The feast of Thomas Becket commemorates the great Archbishop of Canterbury who stood up to a corrupt king of England who demanded ever-increasing power and authority over aspects of human existence he had no right to, namely religion. Ah, how quickly mankind progresses in its eternal march towards its ultimate demise! Today our clergy and civic leaders demand that mothers be allowed to murder their own children in the womb because of "women's right to choose". Even more clergy willingly and whole-heartedly cast aside their sacred duties in favor of legalistic mumbo-jumbo about "protections" under the l...