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the Netherlands, the country where I live,
we currently (may 2001) have a government
consisting of three parties. This coalition
of Social Democrats, Liberals and Democrats
is known under the name "the purple
coalition" and is presently in their
second term. The binding factor in this
government is the Democrat party with the
name "D'66". It was their ideal to
have a coalition without the Christian
Democrats. The Queen of the Netherlands, a
woman with the name Beatirx, also played a
very strong part in forming this coalition,
almost 8 years ago.
In the time that I write this, our
country, the Netherlands, goes through very
hectic times. The nation has become world
news recently, due to the fact that the
Netherlands has the dubious honor of being
the first country to have legalized
"euthanasia". Euthanasia, a word
invented by the Nazi's during the second
world war, literally means "soft
death". The nazis used it to remove
"unworthy" life. I have seen a
propaganda movie from the nazi's in which
they promoted euthanasia for incurable sick
people. Hitler stopped the program after
there was too much critique. Please note, I
am not talking about the concentration
camps, but about euthanasia, doctors killing
patients that suffer from an incurable
disease. In our country, a doctor can now
legally kill a patient, supposedly at the
patient's request, when the patient
"suffers unbearable suffering".
Concerned people in the Netherlands have
strongly protested against this law,
neighboring countries are very worried about
the events as well.
Where on one hand old people don't get
the right care that they need, on the other
hand we have a minister that advises old
people to kill themselves. Just days after
the euthanasia-law passed the parliament,
the minister of "health", Els
Borst, gave an interview in Dutch quality
newspaper "NRC Handelsblad". In
this interview, she stated that she had lost
every contact with people that oppose this
euthanasia. She used the same words as Jesus
spoke on the cross (John 19:30), "it is
finished" when asked about the law.
Mrs. Borst told a story how she knew two
women of age, "they were bored stiff,
unfortunately not bored to death", she
said about the women. She said the women
longed for death and it should be possible,
according to mrs. Borst, for such people to
take a pill to commit suicide. Only a few
days after a euthanasia bill passed the
parliament, she wanted to go steps further.
And although she said that she was sorry if
she hurted anybody, days later she gets
interviewed by the magazine of her own
party, the D'66. In this interview she is
asked what she thinks about the fact that
some Christian circles find her the devil.
She liked it apparently, because her answer
was: "Yeah, interview with the devil,
that's a good title for this
interview."
In my country, when you ask people Who
they believe in, the answer of many is:
"I believe in myself". Many people
have put themselves on the seat of God. We
have abortion, which is basically a child
sacrifice to the God we proclaim to be. We
have euthanasia, the ultimate tool of
self-determination. Man wants to be God.
And there is another God which is
worshipped in the Netherlands. This God is
called Mammon. It's the God of money.
100,000's of animals are brutally killed
because of economical reasons. In the time I
write this, there is mention of a Foot and
Mouth disease that is spreading across
Europe. This sickness, which is not even
lethal for animals, can be easily prevented
by vaccination. But the government doesn't
want the animals be vaccinated, because
otherwise the americans and the japanese
will not buy our meat.
When I count all the wickedness that the
dutch government is currently introducing to
the nation, I can only think of one thing:
the color of death is purple.
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