The law of the land, for better or for worse, is often what citizens of that land come to believe as being \u201cmoral.\u201d Just look at abortion itself. We went from the legalization of abortion as essentially a capitulation for what was, at the time, an act still seen as a last resort for desperate women. Then it became a cause celebre<\/em>, controversial yes, but more and more people were able to talk about abortion without shame or guilt. Now what do we have?\u00a0Abortion is seen by at least half the population as a sacred duty, a moral obligation that must be defended with religious zeal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n One final word on moral attitudes before I end on a positive note. Christians and people of good faith should brace for violence from those on the Left in the wake of this ruling. There is no reason to think that people who relish in defending the right to slaughter babies will not seek other outlets for their cruelty if that \u201cright\u201d is taken away from them. People who actually want babies dead (and here I am not talking about the pregnant woman in distress, but those men and women who treat Roe v. Wade like a sacred text), will obviously find ways to exercise that violence in the world. This, barring some dramatic change of heart, is inevitable. We dare not fall into the malaise of post-modernity and think that this is not an actual battle between true light and real darkness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There is a scene from an old\u00a0Seinfeld episode, one of the few\u00a0Seinfeld\u00a0episodes I remember, that is now quite striking given Friday\u2019s SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.\u00a0Seinfeld was not a show I really got into (unlike\u00a0Everybody Loves Raymond\u00a0and\u00a0Frazier), so I have only seen a few episodes. Of course these three shows are also the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4541,"featured_media":4968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,7,185],"tags":[32,885,876,873,882,879],"class_list":["post-6056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moral-theology","category-problem-of-evil","category-social-justice","tag-abortion","tag-pro-life","tag-roe","tag-roe-v-wade","tag-seinfeld","tag-social-contractarianism"],"yoast_head":"\nIdolatry and The Battle Within and Without<\/h2>\n
Giving Praise Where Praise is Due<\/h2>\n