Interesting take on our moral collapse:
“What shall I do then with Jesus who is called Christ?” Pilate asked. They all answered, “Crucify him!” “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!” When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility.” All the people answered, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!” Matthew 27:22-25 …
…The proud and powerful Land of the Free and Home of the Brave has become so stingy, so narcissistic and hard-hearted that we celebrate the killing of our children as though we had won some glorious victory over a brutal enemy. We have sunk to the unthinkable low of rejoicing over the “right” to murder a helpless baby. We are at once the crowd screaming at Pilate that Jesus be handed over to them to be killed, and Pilate himself, who ignored Jesus’ innocence and washed his hands of the guilt.
“It is our right!”“We have a law and according to that law I have the right to kill the baby!” “It’s my body, my life, my choice!”
“But why would you do this to an innocent child? The baby has done nothing wrong. Why must he die?” But with loud shouts they insistently demanded their right to choose, and so the courts granted them their request. Then the leaders washed their hands and said, “We are innocent of this bloodshed. It is your responsibility.” And the people shouted, “Let our children’s blood be on us and on our children…”
At least the children we haven’t killed. Truly, their innocent blood is upon us.
We have become a nation of Pilates.
Over the past year or so two bit of wisdom on abortion have been brought to me – one by a reader of this blog:
Abortion is a permanent solution to a temporary condition (thank you, dear reader).
Abortion is the enemy of hope.
It is all about life – and the cold, mean life of the pro-choice side of the argument currently has the upper hand. In their way of thinking, aborting that un-intended pregnancy means that the mother gets to live her life. As if that 20 year block of time is the entirety of her life. The woman might live to be 100, or be killed in a car accident on the way home from the abortuary – to raise a concern about how someone might have to spend their time and opine that killing another human being on the supposition that said human being will be too bothersome is all that needs to be said about the depravity of modern times. People are being definitely killed because they might become inconvenient.
And those who stand aside, refusing to either be pro-abortion or pro-life, they are the worst of the lot in this debate. At least those who are advancing the cause of legal abortion are doing something – those who are “personally opposed” but refuse to work up the moral courage to be “actually against” are the spineless swill of the body politic which goes far towards explaining why a society once decent now debates (debates, mind you!) whether or not sexualization of youngsters is a bad thing. In this these vaporous souls who have turned us into a nation of Pilates – washing our hands of the blood of the innocent, even though we darn well know what is right, and what is truth.
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