Originally Posted by gertabelle
We must keep this man and his family in our prayers! May god have mercy on his soul, on and the soul of his murderer. And may we allow god to use this event to draw each of us nearer to his sacred heart.
]NOW LIMERICK POSTED THIS
Abortion is murder.
The killing of Dr. Tiller is murder.
I’ll say it again: Abortion is murder.
The killing of Dr. Tiller is murder.
And just in case you missed it, I’ll say it one more time: abortion is murder.
In case you don’t want to see the parallel, the killing of Dr. Tiller is murder.
Speaking the truth in love does not cause people to murder.
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nfluencing a weak mind with the presumed righteousness of a singular rigid doctrine can easily lead one to carry out a violent act under the guise of righting a “wrong”.
Speaking your opinion, however, as you have done here, as if you and you alone have complete understanding of what caused this violence and how to stop it – well, that does nothing to bring about the change you wish to see in the world.
**So just because your opinion differs from those of us who believe and follow church teaching, that hardly makes the rest of us somehow inferior to your own reasoning **
Abortion is murder.
Murder is murder, any way you cut it, whatever the instigating factor.
And as part of the practice of my faith, I will take political, personal, and prayerful actions to bring an end to these murders, your opinion notwithstanding.
NOW LIMERICK’S INQUISITION TYPE QUESTION
What actions? What will they be? Please elaborate.
Gertie (the apparently grumpy graduate student)
Limerick - not grumpy, just dismayed
END OF LIMERICK’S POST.
BEGINNING OF MY POST (STUARTSFEATHER)
Limerick, what is your game,here? You ask Gertie to elaborate on what she will do when she has already stated that she would pray, and other normal legal and sane acts/methods of ending abortion.
No game. I asked Gertie to elaborate on what action she would take -“political, personal and prayerful”, she claimed. Nothing about her reference to “political action” automatically leads me to believe her intentions are normal, legal and same. All I was interested in was a description of how far she would go to ensure that her money, resources, efforts follow her mouth. Why do you perceive this as a game? I haven’t been on CAF for long, but in the time that I have been here, reading posts, evaluating actions taken by irate posters - particularly on this subject - I have found only a few clinic protesters, people who vote, and people who pray. There is so much banter about the outrage of abortion - why is it that the Catholic voters alone in the country cannot be more effective in mobilizing their efforts to change the law? Or is it that only the most conservative of Catholics believe abortion is actually “murder” and, because they are in the minority among Catholics, it is likely that this will not happen, at least in my lifetime. This is not a judgment about conservative Catholics; you represent the Church as doctrine requires you to represent it. Nouvelle Catholics are a different breed, a product of the evolution of society. I judge neither.
Seems to me that all you are trying to do is incite people on this board to make wild threats of action. Could it be that you are nothing more than a stupe for the Godless left fringes of our society?
**Threats of action? No. I am looking for promises of action and finding a lot of talk and no follow-through. **
Face it chum as long as there are people there will be violence and violent means will be used to obtain goals of individuals as well as nations. If you ever thought otherwise then you must be living in Mayberry with Goober.
**I have long thought Dr. Tiller was in considerable danger, as I’ve been familiar with his practice for years. And what was the goal of the person who shot him? To put a face on the *pro-life movement? *** Who influenced him to act? Do you personally support this suspect’s actions as appropriate given the goal? Surely everyone who has ever mouthed a word of inflammatory pro-life rhetoric is shrinking away from that culpability. It’s a convenient time to forget that words and attitudes have power to incite, and they also have a ripple effect.
Do not think for a minute folks that there are not scumbags on this forum that will try and bait you into incriminating statements that could eventually have a jackbooted homeland security goon at your house door.
Is this a reference to me? Do you believe I’m a “scumbag”? Do you know the origin of the word “scumbag”? It’s slang for a condom. I’m not sensitive to this sort of thing, but I don’t think, CHUM, that calling a 57-year-old woman a scumbag lends you one iota of credibility. And if a “jackbooted homeland security goon” is assigned to show up at your door, it’s because you have invited him with your incendiary observations on this forum. That goon SHOULD be at your door.
Limerick
Stuartsfeather