"Renewing America's Promise"/Cecile Richards?

This is a difficult topic...the most difficult topic, because it strikes at the very heart of good and evil.

Evil in our time, given a slight post-modernist spin, (a cultural tendency of the late 20 th century it is underpinned by French theorists such as Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Francois Lyotard . It rejects a notion of universal truth but emphasises that meaning is in appearance and interpretation. ...) is, in effect, calling what is good, evil, and vice versa. Nowhere is this more evident than in the "Alice in Wonderland" jibberish that passes for the abortion debate.

Most intellectually honest individuals realize, for example, that to call the philosophy, that justifies the taking of innocent human life in a mother's womb, which, should be the safest place for it, "pro-choice," is a catastrophic abuse of language, and, more tragically, of meaning. So, now, individuals who believe in the ultimate dignity of human life, are anti-choice!

This is a lie, of course. The truth is, that "responsibility" begins before conception, not after. However, this is the nature of evil, where ever it is perpetrated. It is not difficult to make truth a casuality when, according to our post modern culture, meaning itself is "[only] appearance and interpretation."

Politics now brings us to Tuesday night at the DNC. The theme of the night is, "Renewing America's Promise." On this night, Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, will speak to the Convention. Her abortion message, a sacrilege, certainly fits in with renewing America's promise, doesn't it? Welcome to "Alice in Wonderland!"

BHO has, in truth, (please see the American Right to Life website for an account of all the dismal facts, which difinitively prove his lies, regarding Illinois legislation BAIPA,) cast down his "thirty pieces" with evil, on the only ultimately significant issue--the dignity of human life, created in God's image. No Catholic should EVER vote for such an individual...see Chaput's recent book, Render Unto Caesar.

I have written several posts about the theological concept of "Personhood." Arguably, every threat to our Judeo-Christian culture today, is an attempt to strike down "Personhood," for the individual human being, and, ultimately, the Divine Communion/Personhood, of our Trinitarian God.

We, as Christians, simply must acquire a grasp, both intellectually and mystically, through prayer, of the danger and existential threat, to which we have fallen victim in the modern age. We are an inextricable part, an indispensable and sacred part, of the greatest of all Mysteries, God's own Mystery of love. We must take our stand on the battle lines and fight the good fight in our daily lives, as heirs of those great founding fathers who, unapologetically, brought forth our country in sacrifice and love, founded on Judeo-Christian principles.

Finally, perhaps this is too harsh on the Church, some of the Bishops, most notably Pope Benedict himself, and, in my own community, Bishop Chaput of Denver, have called Christians out to defend truth, against relativism, secularism and the assault on human dignity and freedom.

I came across a wonderful piece by Professor Michael Heller, given at the Templeton Prize News Conference in March of this year. The full statement can be read here,..., it speaks of the "Great Mystery," of God,

Science is but a collective effort of the Human Mind to read the Mind of God from question marks out of which we and the world around us seem to be made. To place ourselves in this double entanglement is to experience that we are a part of the Great Mystery. Another name for this Mystery is the Humble Approach to reality – the motto of all John Templeton Foundation activities. The true humility does not consist in pretending that we are feeble and insignificant, but in the audacious acknowledgement that we are an essential part of the Greatest Mystery of all – of the entanglement of the Human Mind with the Mind of God.

Yes, true humility accepts his vocation, his mirthful and holy "entanglement" with God, and, as Aragorn, in the "Lord of the Rings," cries in his "Battle Speech,"

"...My brothers, I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me, a day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day; an hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of man comes crashing down, but it is not this day, this day we fight. By all that you hold dear, on this good earth, I bid you stand..."

I will not watch Cecile Richard's speech, it "will take the heart of me,"-- brothers, stand with me...