I recently discovered William Saletan of Slate.com via R. Albert Mohler Jr. I recommend reading some of his articles, they're brilliant and a much needed voice in the world of popular liberal thought.While cultural commentary is not particularly my forte, today's article bears mentioning.
Speaking of IVF and the "problem" couple's face when it comes to allowing it to be adopted, or really when it comes to do SOMETHING with it, Saletan shows that the reason the couple has a "crisis" is because they never thought through what to do with the embryo afterward.
This shows a massive disdain, a serious overlooking of the consequences of creating a human life.
"The patients and doctors are preoccupied with making a baby. If you get one, congratulations. Anything extra is an afterthought."Of course, as Christians we know this attitude is corrupt (I know nothing of the status of Saletan's soul so I refer primarily to myself and the main readership of this blog).
Brilliantly,
"We treat the leftovers as raw material, available to be used or thrown away. But they aren't raw material. Eggs and sperm are raw material. Embryos are what we make with that material. They're us."It is disgusting to me that this argument even has to be made over and over again. Of course this is the way life works but no one even thinks about it anymore. On the side with abortion you have women (and men!) who want to have sex and never be held responsible for anything and then here you have people who are obssessed with simply making a baby but care little what happens once it's made, or at least don't think about what to do once it's made. They refuse to be held responsible.
The article is stimulating no doubt. Give it a good look.
Loving the unborn to the glory of God,
R. D. Thompson
This was easier. Pitchfork is a music critic site, but you can ignore those ratings.
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Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet – S/T
Pitchfork = N/A
Anathallo – Canopy Glow
Pitchfork = 55
Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
Pitchfork = 77
Andrew Bird – Live at Lollapalooza
Pitchfork = N/A
Andrew Bird – Soldier On ep
Pitchfork = N/A
Andy Zipf – The Long Tail
Pitchfork = N/A
The Avett Brothers – Emotionalism
Pitchfork = 75
The Avett Brothers – Four Thieves Gone
Pitchfork = N/A
Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
Pitchfork = 80
Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
Pitchfork = 85
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Pitchfork = 81
Breathe Owl Breath – Ghost Glacier ep
Pitchfork = N/A
Calexico – Garden Ruin
Pitchfork = 81
Calexico/Iron and Wine – In the Reins
Pitchfork = 85
Danielson – Ships
Pitchfork = 91
The Decemberists – Castaways and Cutouts
Pitchfork = 81
The Decemberists – Her Majesty the Decemberists
Pitchfork = 82
The Decemberists – Picaresque
Pitchfork = 83
Devon Sproule – Keep your Silver Shined
Pitchfork = N/A
The Everybodyfields – Nothing is OK
Pitchfork = N/A
The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
Pitchfork = 86
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova – The Swell Season
Pitchfork = N/A
The Great Lake Swimmers – s/t
Pitchfork = 78
Horse Feathers – Words are dead
Pitchfork = 75
The Innocence Mission – Now the Day is Over
Pitchfork = N/A
The Innocence Mission – We Walked in Song
Pitchfork = 75
Jars of Clay – Closer ep
Pitchfork = N/A
Johnny Cash – Live From Austin, TX
Pitchfork = N/A
Josh Ritter – In The Dark, Live at Vicar St.
Pitchfork = N/A
The Long Winters – Putting the Days to Bed
Pitchfork = 77
The Long Winters – Ultimatum
Pitchfork = N/A
M. Ward – End of Amnesia
Pitchfork = 76
M. Ward – Post-War
Pitchfork = 82
M. Ward – Transfiguration of Vincent
Pitchfork = 83
M. Ward – Transistor Radio
Pitchfork = 82
Matthew Perryman Jones – Throwing Punches in the Dark
Pitchfork = N/A
Matthew Perryman Jones – Swallow the Sea
Pitchfork = N/A
My Morning Jacket – Z
Pitchfork = 76
The National – Boxer
Pitchfork = 86
Over the Rhine – The Trumpet Child
Pitchfork = N/A
Pavel Sporcl – The Four Seasons
Pitchfork = N/A
Pedro the Lion – It’s Hard to Find a Friend
Pitchfork = 78
Peter Broderick – Float
Pitchfork = N/A
She and Him – Volume 1
Pitchfork = 74
Shearwater –Rook
Pitchfork = 80
Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
Pitchfork = 94
Sigur Ros – Hvarf – Heim
Pitchfork = 76
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Pitchfork = 85
Spoon – Gimme Fiction
Pitchfork = 79
Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
Pitchfork = 89
Sufjan Stevens – Greetings From Michigan
Pitchfork = 85
Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise
Pitchfork = 92
Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
Pitchfork = 81
Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche
Pitchfork = 72
The Uglysuit – s/t
Pitchfork = 4.8
The Weepies – Hideaway
Pitchfork = N/A
The Weepies – Say I Am You
Pitchfork = N/A
Woody Guthrie – The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1
Pitchfork = N/A
The ones you should check out RIGHT AWAY:
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+ Bon Iver
+ The Decemberists
+ Glen Hansard (Swell Season)
+ M. Ward***** (My top 5 of all time)
+ Sufjan Stevens (Illinoise)
+ The Weepies
An Embryo Liberation Front ought to be established to unshackle those trembling, quivering persons, presently imprisoned in frosty tombs by evil-slut progenitors who won’t submit to morality. We should burst in to an Embryo Storehouse to tip trays on floors, letting us enjoy the spectacle of protoplasm bidding for freedom.
ReplyDeleteSaletan should be in a secure Centre, sat beside a man who believes he’s Napoleon, murmuring ‘I’m a pretty embryo’ as a Nurse gently strokes his hands. Those who share his beliefs would be consigned to such places if faith-driven insanity were appropriately treated as madness.
Enamoured of. Israel-loving. The Gospel of the Sovereign Grace of God.
That may be the oddest and most aggressive comment this blog has ever encountered.
ReplyDeleteI wonder, is it insanity to protect the dignity of a human life? Is it insanity to express concern over the growing and nation-wide disdain for the human reproductive processes? Is it insanity to call out in desperation to an increasingly immoral and rudderless society that sees the embyro as little more than a lump of cells fit only for scientific testing? Is it insanity to protect human life of which yours is included? I would imagine that a person of your persuasion believes in social goodness and working for the good of society. If you continue to hold to the unfounded BELIEF that Christians and those who protect the dignity of the embryo are merely deluded and insane you will continue to see the degradation of society until the society is left in utter oppression and NO human life is considered dignified.
You have a weak position when all you can do is hurl insults from outside the walls.
The only thing worse than being blind and deluded is actually being blind and deluded while standing outside the camp accusing everyone else of being blind and deluded.
Is your life, YOUR life, worth anything? Think carefully because how you answer that question bears very much on whether your own worldview is consistent. If the embryo is nothing more than a lump of cells to be toyed with and disposed of you yourself are nothing more than a lump of cells to be toyed with and disposed of.
That you would see that truth is very close to my heart.