The second step is to keep us in a high enough state of physical well-being that we won’t mind having the rest of our liberties stolen.

And, about the tyrants keeping people “fat and sleek…” I think they want to keep us “safe” and “dependent.” That’s how they control and steal liberty. Just look at the welfare system. This is a system designed to keep people down. The government gives just enough to keep recipients in cheap houses and macaroni and cheese, but not enough to get out of the situation. (Of course, the macaroni and cheese does make them fat if not sleek:))

Tess’s mother reminds me of other great conversions in history. Where would Christianity be if St. Paul had not converted from persecuting Christians? Would William Wilberforce have been successful in abolishing England’s slave trade without the mentorship of former slave ship captain John Newton?

John Newton’s case is interestingly similar to George Tiller’s in that he worshipped God while engaging in the slave trade, and gave himself credit for being a “gentle jailer.” In addition to the aggravations Tiller’s murder has caused the pro-life movement, the world will never know what plans God had for him.

A short biographical sketch of John Newton can be found here:
http://www.cbn.com/special/amazingGrace/Articles/Rosa_Lee_Newton.aspx

Also, here is the link to the official site for the movie Amazing Grace (Newton wrote the hymn). It is a good pick me up for any pro-lifer feeling discouraged.
http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/

Thanks for reading.

Take Care, mailloux

Take Care, mailloux

Tess’s story must live on in order to expose the truth which will someday bring the end of these barbarous practices.

It’s why pro-abortionists have apoplectic fits when abortion protestors show pictures of aborted fetuses, or why Barbara Boxhead had a cow when Rick Santorum had the *audacity* to bring a picture of a partial-birth aborted baby to the floor of the Senate. They know that when/if Americans see the horrors of “choice”, they’re slaughterhouses will come to a screeching halt.

And to think that one of Tiller’s eulogizers referred to him as ‘generous’. I think I’m going to go somewhere and vomit.

It’s why of all the bilge that’s has been spewed from The One and TOTUS, the most telling and damning was his ‘clinging to guns and religion’ quote. Why McCain didn’t hang that around his neck on a daily basis I have no idea.

Well actually, I do, but let’s not go there.

Hamlet’s speech beginning “To be, or not to be” was less impressive than the murderer Claudius’s speech beginning “Oh, my offence is rank.”

Lincoln said: “The former is merely a philosophical reflection on the question of life and death, without actual reference to a future judgment, while the latter is a solemn acknowledgment of inevitable punishment hereafter for the infraction of divine law. Let anyone reflect on the moral tone of the two soliloquies, and there can be no mistaking the force and grandeur of the lesson taught by one and the merely speculative consideration in the other of an alternative for the ills that flesh is heir to.”

John C Briggs, in a recent article in the Claremont Review of Books, notes on this:

The brother-murderer wrestles with his soul while possessing the very things for which he did the murder, his inner struggle enacting the antebellum dilemma. Blood stains the republican soul, both north and south. Slavery corrupts the slaveholder as well as the slave. In the North, the indefinite toleration of slave laws for the good of the Union cannot put down the belief that the republic is a participant in a primal crime. On the one hand, the dilemma is intractable. Self-righteous slaveholders and abolitionists cannot escape their own entanglement in what all have inherited. On the other hand, Claudius’s prayer—failing, yet thirsting for what it knows it lacks—aspires toward release while creating the grounds for more desperate acts, even as it surprises us into an appreciation of his divided, flawed humanity.

It seems likely Lincoln was attached to Claudius’s speech because it embodied this vertiginous dilemma, not merely as a confession of guilt or an expression of hypocrisy but as a struggling soul’s effort to be free even as it becomes (in Claudius’s words) “more engaged” in its tyrannies. He once linked Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act to Claudius’s failed prayer for forgiveness: “It hath no relish of salvation in it.” Douglas had sought to overcome the nation’s political dilemma by appealing to popular sovereignty, but in Lincoln’s estimation had only inflamed sectional conflict. Presuming to win the blessing of the ballot box, Douglas had experienced Claudius’s disappointment without possessing Claudius’s self-knowledge or recognizing the perverse effects of his own ambition.

Some people say that the abortion-slavery analogy is overdone, but the one always seems to come back to the other on some level, doesn’t it?

Thanks especially for praying for me. I will do the same for you as well. One of my favorite prayers is to ask God to create in me a clean heart and to do His Will. If you have that, you have everything.

Take Care, mailloux

I’m also glad that the parents of the child chose to use these pictures to help educate others, and hope that they can find comfort.

God bless!

I cannot follow the link. My mind never lets go of graphic images. As a nurse, I do not understand anyone in the medical field supporting destroying life.

Take Care, mailloux

My wife used to comment on the website of a local city newspaper. I dubbed the online community at that newspaper, “the fever swamp.” Eventually my wife grew tired of it as there was no debate, only attacks . . . and usually irrational ones at that. Again, engaging with some of those folks is tough and very draining work.

Take Care, mailloux

Take Care, mailloux

Take Care, mailloux