Dissecting Wartburgwatch and I-Monk which presents themselves as blogs dissecting Christian trends but dissect, mostly, conservative Evangelicals who have an historic orthodox view of Scripture. Not a lot of happy commenters seen on those blogs.
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
I-monk; a little abortion is o.k., a lot of abortion would be wrong.
As I have noted before, I-monk is now simply a politically progressive blog with a thin patina of religiosity. They have adopted the past Democratic talking point from the campaign of Hillary Clinton about abortion. They will inevitably follow the current Democratic platform; anywhere, anytime including the moments of birth and the moments after birth.
### A lot of abortions is to be criticized,they say, but a few here and there, well that's the reality and God understands. That's the current I-monk position. It will change to be even less restrictions to abortion because I-monk follows secular trends.
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Seneca, I need to get this off my chest. Since IMonk closed comments on this posting, may I post it here?
ReplyDeleteI have no interest in finding common cause with a society who are clearly, doggedly marching over a cliff. No, I am going to step aside and openly declare, “Cliff ahead! Turn back!” If that alienates some, or alienates me from others, so be it. I’ll show no solidarity with people so dead-set upon oblivion. Yes, that’s all-or-nothing: a flourishing, hopeful society cannot, will not exist where it is legal to kill our children.
The common distinctions made regarding “when human life begins” are completely arbitrary. The distinction is made purely as a matter of personal convenience. The “science” simply justifies the preconceived idea. We want what we want, so we find data to back it up. The facts of human reproductive biology do not compel us to define at what developmental stage human life begins and thus is thenceforth sacrosanct, that is except at the point of conception, that point where the genome of the zygote contains all of the genetic information necessary to form a new individual. In other words, the zygote is a new individual. Location of that definition at any other point along the continuum of human development is arbitrary, period.
Arbitrarily distinguishing between individuals’ privileges, entitlements, rights, and responsibilities is totalitarian. Legal abortion is a totalitarian policy which undermines the very foundations of a just society and the rule of law, just like legal slavery, legal euthanasia, legal capital punishment. It is collective suicide. There is no slippery slope, there are no degrees, there are no mitigating factors. It is a quantum leap into the abyss.
Not everything has gray areas open to debate. Ignore the clear logic at your own peril.