though it seems like the main religions getting hammered and disparaged are Judaism and Christianity. Other religions, and especially Islam, are not being treated this way.

I believe the Left has to destroy the presence of Judaic-Christian principles in our society in order to enact their agenda. Only by removing God from the schools and subsequently the public square, both of which they have aggressively pursued and succeeded in, will allow them to pretend the Founding Fathers did not write what they wrote.

Last night I heard a disturbing news story on Fox that was talking about new textbooks in Texas, which ultimately are the blueprint for books across the nation. An activist group has demanded any references to the faith of the Founding Fathers and other American history heroes be reduced or eliminated. It has not been decided yet, but it is another nail in the coffin if they succeed. Rewriting history and history books in schools in just one weapon being used against us.

the news came that the man who killed the abortion doctor, was found guilty of premeditated murder, and will be sentenced to life in prison. How does this work? On one hand a man (doctor/murderer) makes a very lucrative living by killing innocent children.He is actually rewarded for his lack of compassion and his careless concern for human life. He is accepted into some type of cult-like church that evidently approves of the doctor’s profession. I’m not sure that Jeremiah Wright’s congregation would have permitted his attendance or membership. On the other hand, a man who is trying to protect unborn children, is cast into prison.
It only points out how far this nation has fallen. You know that God chastised Israel for sacrificing their children as their heathen neighbors did. He was repulsed by their evil and said “It never entered my mind” that you would kill your own children.Read it for yourselves……….Jer. 19:5 KJV

but I felt I could not short change the story. There has been such a culture of death that has developed over the past several decades and IMO, it is due to the desensitization of all things related to a moral view of the world. The absence of a spiritual based society, and moral tenets and virtues, leads to a careless regard of life.

The Leftist elitists need to be concerned; as Ancient Rome began to crumble, there came a point that the birthrate had declined so much, that laws (Julian and Papia-Poppaean) were passed to try and encourage family life and childbearing. I believe the government even paid women to have children. The upper classes were particularly affected by the declining birthrate. There are multiple causes that have been examined regarding the loss of population of Rome, but this is certainly something that is worth remembering. We may cause ourselves to be extinct…..

Thank you for the comment and reco.

Some 60% of abortions in America are performed on white women.

I think the arguments against abortion should be based on the sanctity of life….not the racial makeup of the mother involved.

religion. Though I think the extreme environmentalists are the ones following that mantra. The true Leftists have no religion except their own progressivism, and that is how they live their lives, the only absolutes are about power and their agenda. By eliminating the moral foundation and reinforcement of right and wrong in society, it is a free-fall from there to the anything goes mentality. No conscience, no responsibility, and no consequences. Liberal policies destroys families and breaks the bonds that society needs critically, for survival.

You also noted the PP placement in poor neighborhoods. The other observation I had was how these facilities may also be located near colleges and universities. The schools in urban areas are often surrounded by low income neighborhoods., so PP is getting to prey on two very vulnerable populations.

Thank you for your input and reco.

they are real tiny human body parts, and that is what I cannot wrap my mind around. That anyone in the health professions could participate in this, tells me how far down we have come as a society. Without a conscience….man is capable of great evil…….

Thank you for your input and reco.

Power over life and death. There is nothing that supports taking of a innocent human life, and when the Leftists and feminazis (Rush’s term) demand the right under the guise of “choice” and a law that allows it, society, not just ours, will suffers for it.

I pray for the day, when the public will turn against those that seek the death of innocents, and demand the law be changed.

Thank you for the reco.

difference. I think you helped me out on that once before, and I was fascinated by the idea that that is exactly what has happened. Virtues are not taught, and values are relative and not fixed. In a way, one can consider that the loss of a virtuous people leads to their no longer valuing human life. That is why infants can be killed in utero, in numbers that are staggering.

And with the progress the Left has made, I do not know how we will turn back to teaching virtues, and thus benefiting from a society schooled that way.

I always appreciate your knowledge and comments. Thank you for the reco.

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value by definition is vague, re-definable, subjective, and optional; a sliding scale if you will. As long as the subject is defined by values, you can be on either side and be “correct”. One can put as much or little weight on either side and it can balance by either moving the fulcrum, or by a dis-honest dealer putting his thumb on one side.
The most irritating part about politics for me is politicians staying in the qualitative realm. As long as a statement is vague and qualitative it cannot be proven or disproven. Ronald Reagan often spoke with qualitative statements, but would back them up with data, statistics, and concrete examples. His speeches were always to a purpose, and he would try to get people to fall down on one side or the other, preferably his.
The English language has too many vaugeries in it. When concrete visuals are seen, people will often abandon doubt and cynicism and procrastination, and make a choice. The ultrasound project for example. In my case, I didn’t make a decision on the right or wrong of abortion till my wife and I sat down once a week during her first pregnany and read a 1968 book about child development in the womb, to know what was going on with our child in my wifes belly. I had know idea the spine started to form so early, 5th week if I recall. It could be hard because I was torn between fascination and anger. Anger because I had never been told the specifics of baby development in Eutero. Once I knew specifics, the decision was a no-brainer.
One last thing, Colonial America frequently named their children after virtues, such as Charity, Hope, Prudence, Constance, Faith, and a raft of others.

First there is the desensitizing. The Left had to turn our society away from God, (Judaic-Christian tenets) and they had to start with the schools, and then move onto the public square. They have done this. Moral teaching develops a conscience, if there is no morality based teaching of right and wrong, then it all becomes relative.

I believe, like you, that there was an underlying acceptance and complicity on the part of the people who participated in the slaughter of those millions in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. An elitism existed that perceived others as less than themselves and were to be destroyed to keep themselves pure.

Accepting that we are not perfect in body, as well as spirit, keeps us human. When we lose our conscience we lose our humanity.

Thank you for the reco. This was a complex and difficult diary to write. Even now, it takes a bit to write my responses. There were mental images in my mind from pictures I had seen of the destruction of human life by the Nazis, and when I read articles about abortion, well…..there are similarities, no matter what the pro-choice people say.

I think with the advance of modern medical technology, we can put the pictures out there, and we can turn the tide of public sentiment against the pro-choice cacophony. It is already beginning to happen, we cannot hold back. Saving our infants may indeed mean saving our society and nation, the one the Founding Fathers intended us to have.

I always appreciate and respect your thoughts and opinions. Complimentary words from you mean a great deal.

Thank you.

my mind, and thus I realized I had to write it. If you get a chance, follow the link to the Weekly Standard article, “Mugged by Ultrasound.” It is an incredible piece, and to tell you the truth, as a nurse, I am sickened by the numbers in the medical professions that can participate in such deeds. Everything I was ever taught was about saving lives, not destroying them…..

Thank you for the reco.

and in their place, evil multiples,” Very profound words. One of the tragedies of the murder of our infants, is the empty arms of so many who desperately want children and cannot have them. They wait in vain for the chance to hold a baby in their arms.

Thank you Red for your words and input, it was difficult to write it, but I am glad I did.

maybe you posted it, and I caught it. I was amazed to see how clearly the Founding Fathers saw religion/faith in society and schools. The Left has managed to twist and obscure so much in order to achieve their ends.

your excellent discussions here at RS regarding the reversal of Roe v Wade on Legal grounds that keep me hopeful. The lives of the unborn are not being afforded equal protection under law, and it is by law that this ultimately has to be changed. I think GC once referred to it as ‘bad law.” Your legal perspective and the correctness of it, holds, Menlo.

My premise deals with a different aspect relating to society and the progressives, and human nature. The secularizing and deliberate attempts to destroy belief and faith in a Supreme Being, (taking God of schools), removing all traces of Him from the public square, is the method the Leftists/Progressives have used to achieve their ends. Power and control – that includes the ability to destroy or grant that one may live, Our culture and society has been desensitized to the basic tenets that allow us to keep our humanity, and not destroy innocent life. It cultivates a mind-set a indifference.
Another way of saying it: taking God, faith and morality out of the public square, the public consciousness, is the reason, IMO, why that “bad law” was passed and thus far why it has not been repealed.

Your remark about not understanding why the “anti-Christians” do not defend the unborn, brings to mind another irony; the progressives are usually the ones demanding the end of capital punishment. To me, it is all part of their warped, but dangerous to society, view of the world.

Your last line would be one that I differ with you on…”God says so”… “not adequate justification for a law,” I believe that the laws this country were founded on, stemmed from a Judaic-Christian foundation, the Bible, which includes the Ten Commandments. In a sense then, it seems that we as a nation have a system of law that really was based on “God says so.”

Thank you for your input, as I said I appreciate and agree with your focus and therein lies my hope. Constitutional law that states the right to life….it needs to be enforced.

morality has been the key to the “success” of the progressives. The only way they could do it was to remove God and religion, which are the foundation of our moral tenets – knowing right from wrong, having virtues (thank you Ausonius), and valuing life. 50yrs. ago everyone would have been protesting the presence of these places. They would have seen that this was murder. Today, the people do not rise up, because they do not “see” it for the atrocity it is. Progressives work to change society’s perceptions, so that which was once abhorrent becomes acceptable and commonplace. The concentration camps of Nazi Germany were many years in the making, the groundwork laid beforehand.

Thank you for your input, reco and the tweet, TNJim. To a tech challenged penguin, it is amazing that my words are going to be tweeted out. This technology may not be so bad after all….

WELL SAID.

It is unjust to take my wealth to teach global warming, evolution, inappropriate sex education, multiculturalism, intolerance, disrespect for authority, anti-white racism, and whole of host of other subjects I find abhorrent. Furthermore, my money is used to build yet another corrupt government union.

You are absolutely right and I feel the same way. While I can accept not promoting a particular religion in school or in the public milieu, the erasure and suppression of the presence of God in these venues is part of the Progressives plan and had to be accomplished in order to substitute their ‘religion’ for ours. Without the morally based tenets of right and wrong being taught and reinforced, our people have no moral compass to guide them, and they have no conscience telling them to do other than that which the Socialist State has ingrained in them. Being exposed to faith based on Judaic-Christian tenets, is how our young are taught to make decisions from a moral conscience. One of the Founding Fathers, I think Jefferson, said in order for this Republic to succeed it has to be based on morally based precepts.
IMO, the reason why our tax dollars are supporting the topics you named, is because the Progressives succeeded in this substitution. They have socialized a generation to not believe there is a moral right and wrong, that it is all relative and thus the envelope can keep being pushed, and that includes disposing of unwanted babies. Moral teachings allow us to develop a conscience, and to sustain society based on absolutes, not the latest Progressive drivel.

ColdWarrior, up above quoted this for me, and it speaks again to the Founding Fathers’ beliefs and foundation behind the principles that started this nation.

From the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Art. 3, in part:

“Art. 3. Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”

Somewhere I mentioned that 50yrs. ago, parents would have been up in arms, if universities and colleges were handing PP info. It just go to show how far we have slid, IMO, in the wrong direction.

Thank you so much for your input.

Only the wealthy would be able to afford to send their kids to school, while the poor would be uneducated and just get poorer. The gap between the rich and the poor would just get wider and wider…

“The schools need to be funded directly by the people who use them.”

But everyone benefits from the public school system, where everyone gets an education. Besides education just being a good thing in it’s own right, it is better for our economy (educated people can more easily get/create jobs, invent things, etc).

Therefore, the government has an obligation to ensure a educated populace. The solution is not to eliminate public schools, but rather to promote school choice, including public & charter schools, and tax exemptions for private (including religious) schools and homeschooling.

universities and colleges, they are putting the finishing touches on their moral relativism, that has been part of the educational agenda from the start. But first they had to get God out of school and the public square; they have succeeded.

The womens movement was hijacked by the radical feminists, Leftists who saw a way to further their agenda behind the guise of “womens” rights. I’ve said before, that the movement did some good in education and professional fields, but it also did a lot of harm. I believe it increased the burden on women and may in fact be part of the reason for men losing their roles and identities. But remember, I am speaking from a conservative woman’s point of view. Achance mentioned this article recently by Dennis Prager, in the Washington Times. It is an excellent article speaking to this here.

It is has shocked me, as a nurse, that so many health professionals would participate in the barbarity of abortion. Even in capital punishment a lethal injection puts the individual to sleep. I just cannot describe the details of the abortion procedure, but I am sure most of us know. That is how far and how warped our society has become. I do believe that if we can get the message out about the truth about the killing of our infants in utero we can turn the tide against the Leftists and their progressivism.

Progressives/Communists/ Fascists seek to have power and control. They can only achieve it if they place themselves in the publics’ consciousness and remove the moral basis for our society, one founded on virtues and faith based, one founded on Judaic-Christian tenets, one founded on God.

I appreciate and thank you for your input. I keep telling myself, “if the people only knew….”