{"id":2279,"date":"2004-10-29T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2004\/10\/sisyphus-the-nastification-of-america.html"},"modified":"2004-10-29T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T03:09:00","slug":"sisyphus-the-nastification-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2004\/10\/sisyphus-the-nastification-of-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Sisyphus & the Nastification of America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So you\u2019re voting for Bush because he\u2019s Pro-life? Great! But don\u2019t just be an election year Pro-lifer: Do something in between elections. Help out as a sidewalk counselor outside an abortion mill. Contribute money to Pro-life organizations. Volunteer at a pregnancy helping agency. Adopt! Something. <\/p>\n

Maybe even disconnect your Cable.<\/p>\n

I guess what I\u2019m saying is, if your opposition to abortion is strong, as it should be, then yelling about it in the fall and doing something else for months in between is just \u2026 well, playing. You are a Pro-life Pretender.<\/p>\n

Everyday there are women, many teens, making heart-rending decisions that will scar them for life \u2026 and possibly end that of their baby\u2019s. <\/p>\n

\u201cHey, whaddya want me to do? I voted for Bush\u201d \u2014 just doesn\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t have it both ways. We, as a people, obviously support Porn<\/a> being broadcast via Cable and Satellite into our homes daily. We let our children watch gutter trash \u2014 and many parents let their children dress like prostitutes. Sex is more prevalent than \u2026 well, sex. And then what? We expect our children to be abstinent in the midst of such enormous temptation? Teens? Do you remember being a teen? Can you imagine being a teen in a world where the adults want you to see sex, dress like sex, rap about sex, and then \u2026 not have sex?<\/p>\n

Lord have mercy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Face it. Everyone puts on their \u201cholier-than-thou\u201d attitude at election time \u2026 then goes back to watching Britney Spears in between times.<\/p>\n

The problem with sex is that most folks are interested in it, intrigued & tempted by it. Like the weather, it\u2019s something we all hold in common. But unlike the weather, which we can\u2019t control, we can do something about what\u2019s broadcast on TV and available on the Web. Don\u2019t support it. True, it\u2019s hard not to look. Try harder. And for goodness sake: Shield your children from it. It\u2019s soul corrupting.<\/p>\n

I remember being a kid, sitting in the back of the library with my pals and looking at National Geographic and hunting for cuss words in the Dictionary. (Sorry mom.) But for heaven\u2019s sake, that sounds almost virtuous compared to today\u2019s resources! I would be willing to bet that if you are reading this at your computer, and you\u2019ve been using online services for a year or more, you\u2019ve seen Internet Porn<\/a>. (Some of you may even be addicted<\/a>.) Do you think your children haven\u2019t? Chances are they soon will.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m the chief of sinners and no prude. (Come to think of it, we could use more prudes.) But when visiting Europe I noticed that topless females were used to sell toothpaste in TV ads. (Sorry, I can\u2019t remember the brand.) However, to me, that\u2019s not nearly as prurient as a fully clothed model eating a Hardee\u2019s hamburger while riding a mechanical bull \u2014 an ad currently being broadcast in America. We Americans just have a way of nastifying things. <\/p>\n

A Russian Orthodox priest once told me about watching a sporting event with his saintly bishop. He and fellow clergy knew that the bishop enjoyed soccer, but didn\u2019t watch TV. They had a get together to watch the World Cup \u2014 which was delightful, until the beer commercials. The bishop stared at the half nude seductresses on the screen, then looked around at his priests and, quite innocently, asked: \u201cSo you all watch this?\u201d Needles to say, their embarrassment led to a soccerless time of brotherly fellowship.<\/p>\n

Pregnancies don\u2019t just happen. A woman or girl is not just walking along one day and discovers she\u2019s with child. Young or old, females don\u2019t just wake up one day and decide to have a abortion (i.e., kill someone). Good heavens! No. Rather, it takes having sex to make a baby. (I realize that science is trying to change that, but I\u2019ve yet to hear of someone aborting a child conceived artificially.)<\/p>\n

Is it still within our collective creative power to think of some other topic? Is there no art worth broadcasting? Must even the sports, arts, and visual entertainments that are worthy be supported by the sex industry?<\/p>\n

Do you support the sex industry and oppose abortion? <\/p>\n

Do you oppose abortion and support the sex industry?<\/p>\n

This sounds like Sisyphus<\/a> rolling that big stone up the hill, only to have it roll back down on top of him. Over and over, amen. In a word, hell.
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So you\u2019re voting for Bush because he\u2019s Pro-life? Great! But don\u2019t just be an election year Pro-lifer: Do something in between elections. Help out as a sidewalk counselor outside an abortion mill. Contribute money to Pro-life organizations. Volunteer at a pregnancy helping agency. Adopt! Something. Maybe even disconnect your Cable. I guess what I\u2019m saying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSisyphus & the Nastification of America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So you're voting for Bush because he's Pro-life? Great! But don't just be an election year Pro-lifer: Do something in between elections. 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