tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post5149038063226423669..comments2024-03-26T10:03:51.827+13:00Comments on Karl du Fresne: What abortion rights activists really mean when they talk about a "review"Karl du Fresnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054853925940134404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-58982034849602607322017-03-18T11:11:34.752+13:002017-03-18T11:11:34.752+13:00Hi Karl
If there is one thing I have learned over...Hi Karl<br /><br />If there is one thing I have learned over the years is that culture trumps politics. As our culture becomes increasingly nihilistic then our legislation will inevitability follow close behind.<br /><br />I'm reminded of an ancient proverb concerning wisdom. "But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death." Proverbs 8:36<br /><br />Behind abortion on demand and the push for euthenasia is a mechanistic view of human life. If we are simply a confluence of time plus chance plus the impersonal, then what does any of this matter? However, if all human life is a gift from a loving creator who has formed us in his very image, who imbues our lives with meaning and purpose, then it matters very much indeed.<br /><br />In an age when even the churches, with perhaps the exception of the Catholics, find it difficult to frame the conversation in this way it is almost too much to expect any politician to articulate this perspective. Even the openly Catholic Bill English appears to wish this would all go away rather than see this as an opportunity to promote what I assume to be his theological position. <br /><br />We are living in a morally regressive pagan culture when 'choice' is the ultimate good, trumping even life itself.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />Brendan McNeillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02741263914308842497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442430064359197279.post-51365282897634120512017-03-18T11:10:40.490+13:002017-03-18T11:10:40.490+13:00Hi Karl
If there is one thing I have learned over...Hi Karl<br /><br />If there is one thing I have learned over the years is that culture trumps politics. As our culture becomes increasingly nihilistic then our legislation will inevitability follow close behind.<br /><br />I'm reminded of an ancient proverb concerning wisdom. "But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death." Proverbs 8:36<br /><br />Behind abortion on demand and the push for euthenasia is a mechanistic view of human life. If we are simply a confluence of time plus chance plus the impersonal, then what does any of this matter? However, if all human life is a gift from a loving creator who has formed us in his very image, who imbues our lives with meaning and purpose, then it matters very much indeed.<br /><br />In an age when even the churches, with perhaps the exception of the Catholics, find it difficult to frame the conversation in this way it is almost too much to expect any politician to articulate this perspective. Even the openly Catholic Bill English appears to wish this would all go away rather than see this as an opportunity to promote what I assume to be his theological position. <br /><br />We are living in a morally regressive pagan culture when 'choice' is the ultimate good, trumping even life itself.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />Brendan McNeillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02741263914308842497noreply@blogger.com