{"id":39613,"date":"2012-11-06T00:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T07:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=39613"},"modified":"2014-12-30T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:01:51","slug":"the-invaluable-zippy-observes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/11\/the-invaluable-zippy-observes.html","title":{"rendered":"The Invaluable Zippy Observes:"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u201cPrudential judgement is to right-liberals what primacy of conscience is to left-liberals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Very true.\u00a0The Thing That Used to be Conservatism spends endless oceans of electrons making itself stupid pretending it is impossible to know what torture is or whether it is evil while the Thing that Used to be Liberalism does exactly the same thing pretending its impossible to know if a baby full of human DNA is human\u00a0and whether it is evil to murder it.<\/p>\n<p>So much fake confusion could be avoided if people just applied a bit of common sense and listened to the Church.\u00a0 It\u2019s like this: if you obeyed the Church and sought to treat your prisoner humanely instead of seeking to get as close to torture as you can possibly get, you would not torture him and all your BS about \u201cprudential judgment\u201d would not even be necessary.\u00a0 Likewise, if you aren\u2019t sure when human life begins, then how\u2019s about you not prattle about \u201cprimacy of conscience\u201d while being utterly uncertain of whether you are committing murder or not.\u00a0 If the Church says human life is sacred from conception and you aren\u2019t sure, then defer to the Church and you won\u2019t accident murder somebody.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t even complicated.<\/p>\n<p>One of the marks of evil is that the devil loves to introduce fake complexity into divine simplicity and over-simplify what God warns is complex.\u00a0 Ideology is the simplifying part of the lie.\u00a0 The excuses ideologues come up with for rationalizing evil is the complexificating part of the lie.\u00a0 The key word here is \u201clie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPrudential judgement is to right-liberals what primacy of conscience is to left-liberals.\u201d Very true.\u00a0The Thing That Used to be Conservatism spends endless oceans of electrons making itself stupid pretending it is impossible to know what torture is or whether it is evil while the Thing that Used to be Liberalism does exactly the same thing 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