Human Lives Matter

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One thing i’ve always loved about Catholicism is the respect for human life that it demands. It’s not simply an anti-abortion thing but valuing people that others want to pretend don’t exist. I’m convinced that the absence of belief in God eventually leads to treating some people as non-human. So because this is a positive thread, not a rant, I wanted to share three videos on YouTube that I found particularly inspirational and highlight the positive case for what I’m talking about. These are basically people that are living proof of the beauty of the variety human life has to offer:


If you liked them then please leave a comment and if not then please bury yourself under a rock somewhere.
 
As a Catholic, Para Educator, and niece to an uncle who had Downsyndrome. (May he R.I.P). Thank you for posting this!!! Though my uncle only had the intellect of a 3-4 year old, he was my best friend, and one of my favorite relatives. If anyone was hurt, or sick you knew that he was praying for you. And he loved to play jokes on me all the time!
 
There’s a TV show called the ‘undateables’ and if you’ll look past the crude title, they often feature people with learning difficulties. One clip that stuck with me was a mother of a down-syndrome child saying that whilst it isn’t all roses, she said words to the effect of ‘my son is the only person i see most days that asks me how my day was and actually cares about the answer’ and i think there’s a lot to that. Clearly Frank Stephens is an exceptionally bright person and not all down-syndrome people can do what he has done. My cousin-in-law has down-syndrome and could never quite learn to read and write. He came close, he was almost able to get it, but ultimately not. But what i wanted to convey was that there’s success in human life beyond whether they go on to earn a $1m a year, play football in the NFL or star in a hollywood movie.
 
It’s funny how a thread about trump or masturbation will get hundreds of replies but talk about something positive and inspirational…
 
I had a friend overseas some 30 years older than myself who had Down syndrome and one of the only people I could be completely myself with ,God bless him.
 
I know the feeling. To see one’s thread go neglected is an exercise in humility.

For what it’s worth, I watched the videos and pondered them.
 
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All three had something that touched me, and they are so different from each other that comparisons are not easy. I would pick Sam Berns because I admire his forward-thinking, goal-oriented, problem-solving attitude.
 
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Glad you liked it.
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To see one’s thread go neglected is an exercise in humility.
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I do worry what perception agnostics would get of Catholicism from CAF. Far too much negativity in my opinion.
 
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