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| The
Prolife committee members in Thailand have the opportunity to
participate in the 12th Asian Pacific Congress on Love, Life
& Family organized by the Human Life International-Asia
and the Prolife Movement of Indonesia on the theme: "The
Family towards a Culture of Integral Life" in August 2005.
Followings are some thoughts gained from this congress:
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| 1. |
We
have experience that several countries are waking up on the
issue of life even in the country where people are of different
faiths. This new awareness may be because of the culture of
death threatening the culture of life or putting the life in
danger. In other words, life is no more good news, rather is
becoming an object which you can do anything with it. We as
Christians cannot remain with our mouth shut up. |
| 2. |
There
is a lot of discussion on the culture of life taught, guided
and admonished by the late Pope John Paul II including teaching
from Vatican Council II. |
| 3. |
We
are living in the epoch of fast changes. Some changes have already
occurred. Instead of us leading the changes we become the followers
of those changes, further still, those changes sent a negative
impact on our life, so much so that life becomes an instrument
of those changes…i.e. |
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Changes
from the original tradition to modern ideology: |
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Tradition
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Love, marriage, sexual
relation |
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Later
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Sex, love, marriage |
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Now
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Sex (with no love
and marriage is not necessary)
Tradition : Sexual relation is both "unity between man
and
woman and giving birth is the sign and value of
marriage life" |
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Now
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Sex & condom go together
but does not give birth.It is sex without responsibility and
loses its value of marriage and relationship between the couples.
Further more, presently the union tends to be of no real
man or woman which comes out in homosexuality and lesbianism
or swinging parties.
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| Technology,
in fact, has no problem with morality if it is pro life based
on the principle of value and dignity of the human being. While
the world, on one hand, talks about the progress in medicine
and science, the other side is arguing about the problem of
morality, i.e. euthanasia, human cloning, genetic engineering,
human productivity development, etc, which does not allow a
person to be born naturally as the human dignity deserves. |
| 4.
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Media
and the fast changing society also changes the course of one's
life. Everything must be urgent. In fact, the core of the media
is to make people know each other and to receive more news or
information, but it turns out to be that we receive more news
but we know one another less, we have become more and more apart.
Today we can communicate without seeing or knowing each other.
We can be informed of all the news in the world by just sitting
in front of a computer in a tiny room. Man can travel the universe
without asking help from outside except technology.
It was also discussed in the meeting that people began to ask
more questions about life - asking about the essence of life,
or in other words, it is the critical problem on the spiritual
side of man: "Who am I?" - "Who is to be my real
friend?" - "How a real family should be?" - "What
is the value of life and what life means?" - "Is there
God? And where is He?" and "What is the real Love?" |
| 5. |
In
this congress a special highlight was given to the word "family"
with its original meeting: 'introducing progress and development
into the family and the nation'. The discussion ends with the
statement: "Future of the humanity depends on the family
which is the source of the community of love and life". |
| Someone
says the word "FAMILY" comes from "Father and
Mother I Love You". Is it still true now? Since a lot of
children have never seen their father and mother. So, how can
they say they love their parents? How can they sing the song
of "Mother's breast milk"? Because they have neither
experienced nor seen their parents, they could never form such
imagination. Finally, the meeting aired their opinion that "human
cloning" without father and mother is now "quite a
possibility". |
| With
presentation on the topic "Truth on Abortion" from
a speaker the fact has been exposed on statistics that the number
of abortion has been increasingly on the rise. Other than death
of the infant in the womb, life of the mother is also in danger
of death because of unsafe abortion. This is very conducive
to the abortion industry, whereby the aborted children will
be used to produce a new medicine for rejuvenation and cure
of a certain diseases. |
| We
have seen, met and heard a lot of stories… thus, comes a question:
how are we going to do, then, as the "Prolife organization"?
Declaration of the 12th Asian Pacific Congress on Love, Life
& Family is the answer to what we should be doing.
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