I’m a big fan of Nadya Williams, the classics professor who walked away from being a tenured full professor at West Georgia, where she taught for 15 years, to homeschool her children. She tells about her decision in a post at Anxious Bench entitled Discerning Vocation: Walking Away from Academia. I commend it to you as a thoughtful reflection on vocation, a major theme here at the Cranach blog.
No question about it: we, as a society, do not like the weak and the vulnerable. Instead of investing resources in them, it is much more convenient to destroy them ourselves (the promise of abortion, which involves the medical killing of the baby in utero) or encourage the vulnerable to destroy themselves (as MAID attempts to do in Canada with medical killing of eligible adults over the age of eighteen). Tragically, some of the weak and the vulnerable—pregnant women in crisis situations, the drug addicted, the ill, the poor—are the most likely to buy into both of these lies. But is this true? Do we as a society realize that we tell some people outright:
Your life is not worth living.
You do not deserve to live.
Your child does not deserve to live.
What kind of monsters does this make us? Of course, most people who support abortion and/or euthanasia do not think overly much about the precise mechanics of what happens in the process. It’s easier to talk about it as “the realm of medicine.” As the slogan goes, “Abortion is healthcare.” This makes it, therefore, generally belonging to the realm of science, and you wouldn’t want to oppose or disrespect science, would you?
This general comfort of our society with such medical killings (which is what these are) is the result of faulty theology and faulty anthropology that has permeated our modern secular therapeutic age.
She goes on to detail what that faulty theology and faulty anthropology is, including a discussion of the Roman law that “A notably deformed child shall be killed immediately.”
Psychological projection is defined as “a defense mechanism in which the ego defends itself against disowned and highly negative parts of the self by denying their existence in themselves and attributing them to others.” In other words, projection means ascribing negative qualities to others that we actually have ourselves.
The left is always accusing those who do not believe in their ideology of “hate.” Here, Williams turns their rhetoric against them. You advocates of abortion and you advocates of euthanasia “hate the vulnerable.” If you think someone’s life is not worth living and you want them dead, what else can you call it?
The Episcopalian Bishop of Washington, Marianne Budde, called on President Trump at the inauguration Prayer Service to “have mercy” on illegal immigrants and transgendered children.
She has also issued statements favoring abortion. We can implore her to have mercy on unborn children.
Photo by Quinn Dombrowski from Berkeley, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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