Bishop denounces that “today being born alive in Colombia is already a heroic feat”

With the attacks that life suffers from the mother’s womb, “today being born alive in Colombia is already a heroic feat,” said Mons. Miguel Fernando González Mariño, president of the Episcopal Commission on Marriage and Family of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia. (CEC).

In a column published in the CEC websitethe prelate analyzed the situation in the country following the emergence of environmental ideologies that create “a deadly and disguised ‘defense of life’”, in which human beings are presented as “nature’s most dangerous predator.”

Under this premise, he explained, “it seems fair to them to promote campaigns against human life while defending the care of the diversity of birds and butterflies.”

In that sense, he referred to events such as abortion – decriminalized by the Constitutional Court of Colombia – “that aberrant homicide – as Pope Francis called it in Belgium – that is already approaching the no less cruel neonatal euthanasia, with “which seeks to end the lives of those children who in many cases survived the various contraceptive methods that are often microabortive.”

Likewise, he noted, there is the incubation of hundreds of embryos at the request of people who want, but cannot, have children. “If they are not found ‘viable’ they are not placed in the mother’s womb, but discarded, or perhaps frozen to later be manipulated in the most undignified ways, ultimately causing their death.”

And if children are born, the prelate indicated, they will face “legislation that does not protect them, but rather, despite their defenselessness, attacks and harms them.”

The bishop gave as an example the case of the circular that the then Superintendent of Health, Juan Carlos Leal, issued claiming “the right to promote sex ‘reassignment’ surgeries and hormonal treatments for minors without parental consent, threatening physical integrity.” and psychological well-being of children, violating parental authority and attacking the natural order.”

As well as the recent draft decree of the Ministry of Justice to establish that “children and adolescents are allowed to change their gender in the civil registry before a notary so that they are assigned the one with which they supposedly identify”, without the need to be accompanied by an adult.

“In such an environment, it is not strange that school religious education is seen as a hindrance in the midst of a culture that does not want to accept that we are creatures and that the laws for our subsistence are already given by the Creator,” he expressed.

Likewise, Mons. González Mariño warned that “in the face of such a social panorama,” it is not unusual for there to be more cases of depression, anxiety, drug addiction and suicide among children and adolescents, since they live in an aggressive culture towards them.

“Finally, and as a consequence, a manipulated reading of this entire panorama is promoted, which says: how the social, economic, climatic, emotional, family situation, etc. It is so adverse, it is best not to have children. What a great triumph! “They have managed to convince the general public that it is better to prevent there from being a next generation,” he denounced.

The prelate warned that if society does not react in a few years there will be no families or young people, but rather “an uninhabited country, invaded by technological colonizers manipulated by inhuman ideologies, who will be very little moved by the much-publicized biodiversity. “It would be very possible then that the country would be invaded by the children…of our pets.”

“This is not God’s plan because as Pope Francis says, God did not create a disposable world. “They have made us believe that we are capable of thwarting God’s plans,” he said.

The prelate assured that “a society made up of families founded on love and respect, with a stable bond for life, is not a utopian, distant and unrealizable project, on the contrary, it is the foundation, the starting point that God designed, because when he created man and woman he made them in his image and likeness and he saw that it was well made.”

In that sense, he affirmed that the fact that the Pope wanted the Jubilee of Hope to begin in all dioceses on Sunday, December 29, Feast of the Holy Family, is to indicate “that the family is the great hope for the world”.