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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Onward, Moderate Christian Soldiers
Here is an article by John C. Danforth who is an Episcopal minister and former Republican senator from Missouri.
Danforth really exemplifies the deadliness of sentimentalizing the word, "love." If love is not concerned with the destiny of one who cannot speak for herself, then it degenerates into putting someone out of our own misery. If love regards the unborn only for their utility to cure disease to the exclusion of their own rightful destiny, then it is a degenerate, self-seeking that is no longer worthy of the name. And how can children be educated if their destiny is excluded a priori?
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Danforth really exemplifies the deadliness of sentimentalizing the word, "love." If love is not concerned with the destiny of one who cannot speak for herself, then it degenerates into putting someone out of our own misery. If love regards the unborn only for their utility to cure disease to the exclusion of their own rightful destiny, then it is a degenerate, self-seeking that is no longer worthy of the name. And how can children be educated if their destiny is excluded a priori?
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