Yes! The pro-life message isn't just about babies, and I think most pro-lifers miss this. It's about how precious each and every human being is, as a God-imager. Satan hates us because we image God, and he seeks to steal, kill, and destroy. He is pro-death, and also loves pain and suffering.
Yes! The pro-life message isn't just about babies, and I think most pro-lifers miss this. It's about how precious each and every human being is, as a God-imager. Satan hates us because we image God, and he seeks to steal, kill, and destroy. He is pro-death, and also loves pain and suffering.
Pro-life is pro-justice, a set of laws that are worth studying because they revive the soul, bring joy to the heart, give light to our eyes, enduring because the principles are good, and teach and promote righteousness in the population. Laws cannot be unevenly applied, inadvertently broken. If they are chaotic and predatory they exist only give government the power to commit lawfare against its own citizens.
Pro-life is pro-prosperity for all. Econ rule zero: A person can best carve their economic niche when the rules are good, known by all, and can easily be followed; when people do what they say they are going to do, when contracts can be enforced, when suppliers supply when they say they can and payments come on time. People are endlessly inventive, and only need to be allowed to prosper.
Pro-life is the best sort of environmentalism. Humans are not a scourge upon the earth! Humans are the earth's best, most precious natural resource. We don't always act like it, and can we ever mess up, but we can also clean up. Pro-life environmentalism recognizes the creation of God as a gift to humankind. We have not begun to fulfill the first commission given in Genesis. We need MUCH more observation, data collection, experimentation, and knowledge.
Pro-life is generosity, on the one-to-one level, not paying taxes as your donation to charity so a government program can serve up welfare and allow us to not get our hands dirty.
Pro-life values the irregularities in us all, as unique creations of God, including the brains that work differently, the mentally or physically disabled, a terminal or long-term illness, and the aging. If we ignore or throw away someone then we learn nothing. That must be prayerfully balanced with not prolonging death, which may mean prolonging pain and suffering.
Pro-life is pro-family. Families raise children. Without families the human race and our positive influence on the earth, perhaps the universe, disappears. The roles of parents should be cultivated and upheld, and while humans can also be endlessly flexible and adaptive in the face of need, a father and a mother are necessary for procreation.
Pro-life is pro-industry, manufacturing, mining, refining, energy, and innovation; pro-farming, wildlife, forests, exploration. If the laws are good, and our thinking is pro-people, then all of these things are done carefully and not at the expense of another. Those shops and she-sheds are the BEST places to train another generation for skills, industriousness, and creativity.
A pro-life position seeks prosperity for people, so they can adapt, invent, and meet the challenges of a natural disaster, climate change, or a meteor strike. Prosperous people tend to like clean air, water, and outdoor spaces. Pro-life is all of these things.
This is all good, Molly, but it is absolutely essential that we never adopt Bernadin's "seamless garment" of pro-life which applies moral equivalence to the murder of in-utero children and capital punishment.
Yes! The pro-life message isn't just about babies, and I think most pro-lifers miss this. It's about how precious each and every human being is, as a God-imager. Satan hates us because we image God, and he seeks to steal, kill, and destroy. He is pro-death, and also loves pain and suffering.
Pro-life is pro-justice, a set of laws that are worth studying because they revive the soul, bring joy to the heart, give light to our eyes, enduring because the principles are good, and teach and promote righteousness in the population. Laws cannot be unevenly applied, inadvertently broken. If they are chaotic and predatory they exist only give government the power to commit lawfare against its own citizens.
Pro-life is pro-prosperity for all. Econ rule zero: A person can best carve their economic niche when the rules are good, known by all, and can easily be followed; when people do what they say they are going to do, when contracts can be enforced, when suppliers supply when they say they can and payments come on time. People are endlessly inventive, and only need to be allowed to prosper.
Pro-life is the best sort of environmentalism. Humans are not a scourge upon the earth! Humans are the earth's best, most precious natural resource. We don't always act like it, and can we ever mess up, but we can also clean up. Pro-life environmentalism recognizes the creation of God as a gift to humankind. We have not begun to fulfill the first commission given in Genesis. We need MUCH more observation, data collection, experimentation, and knowledge.
Pro-life is generosity, on the one-to-one level, not paying taxes as your donation to charity so a government program can serve up welfare and allow us to not get our hands dirty.
Pro-life values the irregularities in us all, as unique creations of God, including the brains that work differently, the mentally or physically disabled, a terminal or long-term illness, and the aging. If we ignore or throw away someone then we learn nothing. That must be prayerfully balanced with not prolonging death, which may mean prolonging pain and suffering.
Pro-life is pro-family. Families raise children. Without families the human race and our positive influence on the earth, perhaps the universe, disappears. The roles of parents should be cultivated and upheld, and while humans can also be endlessly flexible and adaptive in the face of need, a father and a mother are necessary for procreation.
Pro-life is pro-industry, manufacturing, mining, refining, energy, and innovation; pro-farming, wildlife, forests, exploration. If the laws are good, and our thinking is pro-people, then all of these things are done carefully and not at the expense of another. Those shops and she-sheds are the BEST places to train another generation for skills, industriousness, and creativity.
A pro-life position seeks prosperity for people, so they can adapt, invent, and meet the challenges of a natural disaster, climate change, or a meteor strike. Prosperous people tend to like clean air, water, and outdoor spaces. Pro-life is all of these things.
This is all good, Molly, but it is absolutely essential that we never adopt Bernadin's "seamless garment" of pro-life which applies moral equivalence to the murder of in-utero children and capital punishment.