{"id":7707,"date":"2013-10-29T23:08:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T03:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=7707"},"modified":"2013-10-29T23:08:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T03:08:24","slug":"clickbait-pro-lifery-with-existential-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2013\/10\/clickbait-pro-lifery-with-existential-wisdom.html","title":{"rendered":"Clickbait Pro-Lifery with Existential Wisdom!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Ignore the \u201c\u2026with this one weird trick\u201d headline, and also the (IMO) too-quick cheap shots at secular bases for meaning. There\u2019s really great stuff in this piece on risk and unplanned pregnancy, by Tristyn Bloom:<\/p>\n

\u2026I think the actual problem here, I think the reason people continue to defend abortion is because, essentially, of existential terror: fear of what will happen when something unexpected, uninvited, unplanned bursts into our lives demanding action. I think that is a crippling psychological problem that doesn\u2019t even rise to the level of morality, that we can\u2019t just tell people to suck up and get over.<\/p>\n

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We often hear that a problem with young people today is that we are irresponsible. We don\u2019t have a sense of duty. We don\u2019t have a sense of order. We\u2019re immature. I think that the problem is actually the opposite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I think that we are pathologically terrified of risk and I think that we have this enslavement to our own ideas of respectability, our own ideas of our life plan, our commitments, our existing duties such that something as radically changing as a new life doesn\u2019t fit in with those existing duties. To accept that life would be the irresponsible choice, and that\u2019s the framework from which a lot of people are operating. They see themselves as accepting consequences, as responsible. They have a semblance of a moral framework and we can\u2019t ignore that just because it\u2019s completely the opposite of our own. And this isn\u2019t just about whether or not you accept a child. I think that we are so enslaved to a plan, and a routine, and a vision of our lives, we can\u2019t embrace the unsettledness, openness, flexibility, and folly it takes to have an actually pro-life culture in every instance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Ignore the \u201c\u2026with this one weird trick\u201d headline, and also the (IMO) too-quick cheap shots at secular bases for meaning. There\u2019s really great stuff in this piece on risk and unplanned pregnancy, by Tristyn Bloom: \u2026I think the actual problem here, I think the reason people continue to defend abortion is because, essentially, of existential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[162,34,251,111],"class_list":["post-7707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-abortion","tag-humiliation","tag-im-on-a-submarine-mission-for-you-baby","tag-tristyn-bloom"],"yoast_head":"\nClickbait Pro-Lifery with Existential Wisdom!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ignore the "...with this one weird trick" headline, and also the (IMO) too-quick cheap shots at secular bases for meaning. 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