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here<\/a>, the awesomely gifted Alisha DeFreitas over at Far Above Rubies, tells her story of her brush with the Culture of Death and her refusal to play the world\u2019s game<\/a>. I love that she gives two well-aimed upraised middle fingers: one to the abortion culture of the Left, and one to the Randian Makers vs. Takers class warriors of the Right. She\u2019s one of my heros. God love her, her husband, and that little bundle of pure adorableness, Zoe. It is you, the family, who are at the center of God\u2019s designs. All of our little human systems of politics, corporations and ideologies exist only so that the family\u2013 that is the icon of the Holy Trinity<\/a>\u2013can prosper and grow in love and in the imitation of God. If they hinder or harm that, then the hell with them. The human system was made for man, not man for the human system.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"