I couldn’t have been more wrong. I truly believed that once Roe v. Wade was overturned, the country would turn a little bit to sanity. I figured red states would ban abortion. Purple states would restrict it to 12 or 16 weeks while states like New York and California would enshrine abortion as society’s greatest right above all other rights.
I was wrong.
I believed that abortion had been foisted on us wrongly by an odious Supreme Court. But in the end, it was us. It was always us.
A country won’t support God given rights if it doesn’t believe in God.
Let’s be clear. Politically, pro-lifers are getting our butts kicked. Bad. We are losing everywhere. Ohio just enshrined abortion access into their state constitution. That allows for no restrictions, including parental consent. Ohio did this. What? And it’s not alone. Michigan did a similar thing last year.
We can point to the millions of dollars abortion advocates poured into the states. We can focus on the lies in their ads. And we should. But in the end we need to acknowledge that this isn’t merely a political problem. This is a spiritual sickness. We no longer support life because we no longer love. We don’t stand up for God given rights because we no longer believe in God.
We no longer believe love is our vocation. We have come to believe comfort is our right and that right is granted to us by the government. Suffering and sacrifice are anathema to modern culture. To be clear, you can not have real love in this fallen world without suffering and sacrifice.
We need to do political work and fundraise but more importantly, this is an evangelization problem. God is good. This country needs to be convinced of this once again. Too many Christians have remained silent for too long. Pro-death zealots are winning the day. Stand up. Be counted among the faithful.
It’s time.
November 8, 2023 at 8:50 am
This is one more indicator of a nearly dead culture. Not having children, killing them in the womb, open borders, drug use, euthanasia, etc. all point to either apathy or contempt for the civilization that had built for us, that we don’t care to pass on.
It had flaws; primarily it was materialistic and relativistic. But it wasn’t openly contemptuous of God and reality.
And it’s not just “the American way of life” that’s dying, it’s all of Western civilization. We’re seeing the natural results of the “every man his own priest” revolt from 1517, the indifferentism of the 1717 Masonry, and the hyper-materialist 1917 revolution.
Most Americans claim to believe in God, but they live as if they just couldn’t care less whether He exists.
November 8, 2023 at 4:08 pm
Did you clear this message with your priest, because it seems to me you’re taking an awful lot of liberty with Doctrine in the way you are bundling up and labeling souls here.
I am tempted to recommend Amos 4:13 to you, but please don’t consider that a full recommendation until I do AS YOU SHOULD BE DOING and clear this with my priest.
November 9, 2023 at 10:57 pm
What Doctrine did I take liberty with?
November 10, 2023 at 11:42 pm
“Clear this message with your priest” LOL
Catholics don’t run their blog comments past their priests before posting them. We know full well we don’t have to ask our priests permission before engaging in religious discussion or reaching conclusions about religious matters.
November 8, 2023 at 12:34 pm
So are you going to accept that you lost or are you going to give up on elections and just impose the dictatorship you’ve always drooled for? Perhaps you can repeal the 19th Amendment?
November 8, 2023 at 12:55 pm
No, we will never stop fighting evil.
Perfect screen name, by the way.
November 11, 2023 at 7:14 pm
So it’s the dictatorship then. That’s what I always suspected. You will also make wife-beating legal.
November 12, 2023 at 5:41 am
The first things dictators do in order to control the people is confiscate all firearms and take control of the media to disseminate propaganda and ban criticism of the dictatorship in control of the country.
Well now, I know that President Trump never ever sought to restrict or take firearms from American citizens and I KNOW he didn’t control the media especially in the way to ban criticism of his administration. There was no collusion or love lost there huh?
Well that leaves Biden. Has he tried to control access and restrict fire arms from the citizens? He lost another case in Federal court the other day for exactly that. Again.
Hmmm what’s all this collusion I’ve been hearing about that the administration has had influence over the media to make sure the “correct” message gets out to the people and any contradicting message gets squashed with consequences including intimidation or visits from the FBI? Do Facebook and Twitter ring a bell? Oh wait! You mean Biden’s administration has done this? Hmm sounds like a wanna be dictator.
Yeah Jared, you’re right. It is a perfect screen name
November 12, 2023 at 6:06 am
If I’m allowed to post this link read this. A word of advice? Educate yourself and don’t rely on people of your ilk to inform you. In other words don’t be stupid. It’s not very becoming.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/lawyers_guns_and_money_and_speech_how_democrats_steal_our_constitutional_rights.html
Since you have no idea how dictators operate I imagine you have no idea what a facist is or a NAZI. Again. Educate yourself.
November 8, 2023 at 2:09 pm
BOTH you and I lost.
In charity, you just do not get it.
Abortion affects YOU. Observe what 50+ years of, basically, unlimited abortion has done to this country. When the innocent are killed for convenience, nothing else has any meaning.
November 8, 2023 at 4:11 pm
This isn’t Doctrine. I’m a little embarrassed that my fellow supposed Catholics are this liberal with their judgements. Every man his own priest nowadays, I suppose. As long as it allows you to embrace the kind of “maze of nihilism” the Masons carved out for you in 1419. Nothing else has any meaning indeed.
November 14, 2023 at 8:46 pm
Abortion does me no harm at all and in fact kept two of my friends alive, something the catholic church HATES.
November 8, 2023 at 2:50 pm
i mean, given that 20-something percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, does god really have a problem with abortion in the first place?
November 9, 2023 at 10:43 am
More than half of all zygotes fail to even attach to the uterine wall, putting into question opposition to Plan B birth control.
November 9, 2023 at 11:37 am
God alone knows how many embryonic humans fail to attach. But just because things go wrong in nature, that does not justify deliberately killing human beings.
November 9, 2023 at 11:35 am
What kind of logic is that? That’s like saying that because automobile accidents can happen, God is A-OK with you deliberately running down pedestrians.
November 10, 2023 at 10:01 am
The false equivalence of miscarriage with abortion can lead one to misunderstand both.
November 9, 2023 at 10:37 am
Perhaps those of us who are part of the pro-Life lobby need to reflect on our apparently total failure to project a believably “loving” message to our fellow brother and sister citizens. Just how supportive are we as a society to women in crisis pregnancies, children born in poverty and those, generally, in need of basic needs like health care, shelter, food, education, work, etc.? Do we support political leaders who project love and concern or chaos and division? Just how credibly are we, as individuals and as a movement, embracing a diverse society and culture? Are we open to the democratic ideals of understanding and compromise or insistent on demanding 100% of what the most strident members of our lobby insist on? Raising more money and making better commercials are hardly the foundation for addressing our much broader failures and needs.
November 9, 2023 at 11:42 am
The apparent total failure to project a believably loving message is almost entirely due to that fact that the party of Death has complete control of the news media and public “education.”
The Democrat politicians constantly project chaos and division, hatred and hostility — yet they deceived vast numbers of Ohioans into enshrining one of the most extreme child murder regimes in the world.
November 9, 2023 at 2:26 pm
I cannot tell you how disappointed and ashamed I am of my fellow Ohioans.
After the loss in the August Primary, the Ohio bishops decided it was time to be up front about the position of the Church on the issue of abortion, among other things, because the wording of the issue at both the August and November election was so confusing and the TV ads were so dishonest. So, they united and publicly pushed for us clearly to vote for Issues #1 (dealing with abortion with no restrictions and the lack of parental involvement in the decision) and Issue #2 (permitting recreational marijuana), asking us to vote no on both issues. Our priests were also free to explain and ask us to vote no from the pulpit as well and did so.
Our outstanding Governor, Mike DeWine, and his wife even made commercials asking people, no matter if they were pro-choice or pro-life, to vote the issue down because of the ambiguous way it was written.
Out of state and Soros-funded special interests promoted the opposite, of course. There were almost non-stop TV ads – featuring Catholics and Protestant ministers – manipulating the issue and outright lying. They continually hammered the lie that a woman suffering a miscarriage would not be able to legally get medical attention – a total falsehood.
I was even approached at Mass by a woman whom I had known for decades, who lives in Columbus and is an attorney. She told me she was spending countless hours telling her fellow Catholics they were being misled by the bishops because she had studied the wording of the issue and that it is not a Catholic issue. I charitably made it clear how I stood. Which, of course, made no difference since I have no university degree and am too ignorant to understand the issues.
Only 24 of the 88 counties in Ohio voted yes on these issues – the urban, far more liberal communities. It is a tragedy.
We have lost the battle, but the war is not yet over.
November 9, 2023 at 5:14 pm
Until the USA as a country and most of its citizens feel pain, abortion will continue. Sadly, when violence, crime, and perhaps even disease begins to overwhelm us, a majority may begin to question our moral choices.
I believe that scenario is inevitable.
November 10, 2023 at 6:32 am
I agree and the scenario is soon in coming I’m afraid.
November 10, 2023 at 6:47 am
“Until the USA as a country and most of its citizens feel pain, abortion will continue”
I don’t know, I would think that a world full of “violence, crime and disease” would just convince even more people that they should NOT bring innocent children into it, and drive up the abortion rate even more. We already have liberals insisting that they won’t have children because they fear “climate change”. But we also have some conservatives saying they don’t want to have children because they fear a degenerate and totalitarian future where everyone is eating bugs and not allowed to have cars, etc. I would think abortion would end, or at least decrease, if people had more hope for the future. Ultimately it is probably lack of faith in God, or in lack of love for wanting to preserve their culture or heritage, that drives the culture of death.
November 10, 2023 at 11:47 pm
“Because iniquity shall abound, the charity of many shall wax cold.” (Matt. 24:12)
We have no Charity because we have no Hope, and we have no hope because we have no Faith — and we have no Faith because we love iniquity.