Pro-lifers and the Bird

My children today did a life chain with their grandmother where they held signs in defense of life. My 12 year old reported that there were several people who floated the middle finger as they drove by. She noted that her 9 year old brother said, "They are doing a bad thing," and that her younger siblings did not know what it means. Besides the belittling of innocence of random pro-abortion folks; let's face it, with the infanticide bills passing in radical Democrat states we can now unmask the idea of choice. The radical leaders of the abortion movement are pro abortion, pro infant murder, and they have duped some of the useful idiots into thinking they are for choice. I personally understand the "wailing and gnashing" of teeth as the subconscious guilt of those who, punished in their own members, lash out at the reality that confines and measures them. That is why the reactions are fascist.

The whole scenario that my children experienced brought to mind Alasdair MacIntyre's thesis that our culture, coming from forgotten disparate philosophical traditions, talks past each other in argument, having forgotten where our arguments come from. Whether this is true, I can certainly say there is a sense in which we are beyond argument. In a world where relativism rules the day, the vacuum of truth leaves room only for power. What the radicals in our midst - many of them having intellects so darkened by sin - understand is power.


This idea is evident on our social media platforms. My subjective experience has been that people on Twitter are not interested in rational discussions. I have continuously tried to engage others in debate and the trail always runs cold. Moderns are not interested in confronting the true. Instead, they want to be comfortable in their own understanding of right and wrong. Genuine dialectic draws out inconsistencies in thought and I seek the arguments to genuinely challenge my own thoughts about issues.


That said, saying that our relativistic culture is beyond argument is not to say that argument is dead. The hardened ideologue is frozen. These ice men and women would melt under no heat except the heat of grace; the heat of He who is magis intimum (most intimate). A fascist refuses to hear or assume the good will of his opponent in argument. He seeks to use the state to silence opposition, and to create truth with power. The witnesses of argument, however, are not always ideologue's and this is where argument is still effective. It's not fair to say that argument is dead, because humans were made for truth. Argument only dies in those who kill it as haters of the reality that is.


The bird flippers; the pro-abortionists, do not like the reality that the natural law imposes on them. They go beyond argument to wailing and gnashing of teeth. They do not like the truth. Hell is made of such moral self-creators. As the unmakers of reality, they are beyond argument. Truth convicts them. If only they knew their Redeemer, they would wail no more.