But they don’t really disagree. They simply don’t care and see nothing wrong with murdering human beings, the same as the Romans saw nothing wrong with exposing infants with disabilities on mountaintops to die. If they really did disagree, then they would be capable of presenting some sort of coherent argument. It used be “viability,” but since that has been radically reduced since Roe, they have largely seemed to abandon that rationalization.
We have the absurd situation where there have been cases within a single hospital when one team of medical personnel have struggled to save the life a prematurely delivered infant, while at the same time another “terminates” the life of a perfectly healthy fetus the very same age.
We are not discussing here whether we should attempt to impose our values regarding, for example, the practice of homosexuality upon nonbelievers. *One can be an atheist *and feel the same way as we do about abortion. In fact, there are a few such individuals that I have read about. And herein lies the critical point, Chris. *This is not an issue that *is
dependent upon religious opinion. If the government can arbitrarily take one class of humans and maintain that this class has no protection under the law in regard to life, then what purpose does a government serve except as an agency of tyranny?
Since our government is permitting and protecting the legalized murder of human beings, as I noted on another thread, the only reason why I oppose taking up arms against the government is because we would have no chance of prevailing. Therefore, it would not meet St. Thomas Aquinas’s definition of a just war. In this day and age, in a country such as the U.S., I don’t believe guerilla bands could be organized while escaping the detection of the federal authorities. They would crush such in its incipient stages. Modern surveillance equipment and techniques are simply too sophisticated. It would be impossible to organize to the point of viability.
As for out-and-out terrorism, which Collins so successfully employed in Ireland during the War of Independence (if any are interested, see my flash short story “The Altar Boy”
wwwdnschneidercom.xbuild.com/#/on-writing-page-10/4533091089 ), like my prootagonist within the piece, I have moral qualms about such tactics. There is no honor in bushwhacking people; it is as dishonorable to do what was done to Tiller as what he had been doing. And here too, even if such terror could be elevated far beyond what it has heretofore been, the government (even under Bush let alone Obama) would resort to increasing levels of counterterrorism, possibly even culminating in the imposition of martial law. It would not capitualte.
So what *do *I advocate? Like you, changing the hearts of people. We start within our own Church by purging Her of all who will not pledge to only vote for pro-life politicians, regardless of political affiliation. We let all others know in no uncertain terms that just as the prophet/apostle Paul admonished us that we
will shun the wicked man. Once we are free of these make believe Catholics, we will grow again and when people see that we are once again a serious religion, people will flock to us in droves. We must lead by example.
