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BIG BLUE WAVE : The Medicalization of Abortion in 19th Century France

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 22:30:41 +0000

I have heard conflicting opinions on whether premature expulsion is licit.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Science and Logic are Not Enough: What Pro-Lifers Are Up Against

Wed, 5 Oct 2016 02:23:06 +0000

When the rights of blacks and the rights of whites conflict, whose rights take precedence? When the rights of men and the rights of women conflict, whose rights take precedence? The answer is: nobody's. Because no human being is more important than another. When rights conflict, we don't consider WHOSE rights conflicts, but WHICH rights conflict. That the right to life is more important than the right to bodily autonomy. The cost of renouncing human life is permanent and irreversible. The cost of pregnancy is temporary. If the unborn is a human being at 7 weeks-- which you seem to think is murder-- why would be it not be murder at 6 weeks 6 days? It's the same human being. Moral worth is intrinsic, not acquired. A human being has the same moral worth throughout their lives. That's the meaning of equality.

BIG BLUE WAVE : VIDEO: Brian Lilley Denounces \'Safe Space\' Journalism at Metro

Wed, 16 Mar 2016 04:43:18 +0000

The Rebel is commentary. There's no attempt to be a neutral source. One of the Rebel's criticism's of the mainstream media is their apperance of neutrality when in fact they're really left-wing.

BIG BLUE WAVE : VIDEO: Brian Lilley Denounces \'Safe Space\' Journalism at Metro

Wed, 16 Mar 2016 02:58:30 +0000

Brian was issuing commentary. Commentary is when you editorialize on the news. Journalism is supposed to report the news in a fair fashion. Come on, you're not even trying.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Why Pope Francis Did Not Allow Exceptions on Contraception

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:24:53 +0000

" the official position of the Church about the ontological status of a fetus was that “the soul only enters the child's body after 40 days of pregnancy”." Not true. If anything, the theory of delayed animation was on its way out in the 17th century as per Donald DeMarco's history of abortion in the Catholic Church. http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/vi... http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/vi... "We should not put a label on Pascal and deny all his ideas because, in the XVII century, he was considered “almost heretic” by the Church" You're using Pascal as an authority when he wasn't perfectly orthodox. If you're going to attack a body of Catholic knowledge, it helps to use an authoritative Catholic source. "I repeat: ethical values must be universal (must be objective), based upon Reason (for instance, reason does not justify feminine excision, and does not support abortion too) , and timeless (not submitted to a specific zeitgeist). Otherwise are not “ethical values” in the true sense. " And universal values have particular application. That's what casuistry is all about: a proper application of values to specific cases. "Ad hominem does not solve the problem." That was not an ad hominem. It was a criticism of your method.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Why Pope Francis Did Not Allow Exceptions on Contraception

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:52:38 +0000

Jansenism was a tendency that was condemned by the Church. I think rather than go by a writer who had heretical tendencies, maybe we should refer back to the Magisterium. The whole purpose of casuistry was to know the correct doctrinal decision in a given circumstance. A judgement is universal insofar as it applies in a given case. I think your problem is that your definition of relativism is based on your personal judgement, not the Church's understanding of morality. So far you invoke Pascal, but Pascal isn't the magisterium, nor is his Jansenism reliable. "The idea that each confessor (or priest) is entitled to his own subjective “moral minimum”, is not acceptable. " Total non sequitur and I didn't say anything to that effect.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Why Pope Francis Did Not Allow Exceptions on Contraception

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:39:24 +0000

Don't use a secular dictionary to define a theological idea: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03415d.htm

BIG BLUE WAVE : Why Pope Francis Did Not Allow Exceptions on Contraception

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:09:47 +0000

There is strictly no explicit and clear proof of anything you say. It's all based on reading into his motives. Casuistry is the opposite of relativism, it's establishing a moral minimum, which is the opposite of many an act good in every situation. Francis did not want to judge priests who were making an effort to rid themselves of sin-- a perfectly Catholic stance, whereas, he was trying to give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, so no, he didn't actually judge him. If you're going to insinuate wicked motives on the Holy Father, it has to be based more than on ambiguity and your projection.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Why Pope Francis Did Not Allow Exceptions on Contraception

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:05:28 +0000

"Casuistry is a branch of moral theology developed at the end of XV century by the Jesuits that gave a chance to Jansenists to attack the Church, as it approached the cases of conscience as mere “juridical matters” A moral minimum is necessary for the judgement of every confessor. If a confessor doesn't know the moral minimum, he doesn't know if he can or needs to absolve him. "Francis wants to change the Church doctrine by means of a cultural “war of attrition” (cultural war against orthodoxy). This is quite obvious and evident" I don't think so. He simply has not contradicted Church teaching.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Dear Republicans: Dump Trump

Sun, 21 Feb 2016 05:27:24 +0000

Many people think Trump is going to be faithful to his policy positions. I think this is what is driving the support. They are sick and tired of electing politicians who don't do what they say they're going to do. The thing is, while Trump MAY do what he sets out to do, he will be a bull in the China shop. He has the strong potential to alienate allies. His personality does not lend itself to the compromise and co-operation necessary in the real world of politics. You need someone who can negotiate in that world, and to me, his personality suggests he can't. People don't care about that, they care about someone having the policy objectives they do and doing what they want to do. He makes me think a lot about Trudeau. Although my opposition to Trudeau was largely ideological, it was also in terms of his intelligence and personality. I would have strongly preferred Mulcair because he knows how to deal with people, how to get things done. Trudeau is clueless as far as I can tell. I also think Trump is somewhat of a phoney. Trump as a Christian pro-lifer? He thinks his electorate was born yesterday and unfortunately, many Christian pro-lifers are buying it.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Dear Republicans: Dump Trump

Sun, 21 Feb 2016 05:21:52 +0000

Plus ten! :)

BIG BLUE WAVE : The Poor Media Coverage of the Meeting Between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kiril

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:14:16 +0000

Yeah I saw the column right before I saw your comment. Many good insights, in spite of the little historical slip.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Legalize All Drugs Because..... Cognitive Liberty

Sun, 7 Feb 2016 05:05:33 +0000

I hope that remains true, but I'm pessimistic, especially once marijuana is legalized. People will begin to treating getting stoned as a right. Sad but true.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Joyce Arthur: Ban Right to Conscientious Objection

Sat, 6 Feb 2016 23:53:42 +0000

People have no right to the labour of another. People should be able to learn a profession without being forced to perform acts against their beliefs, insofar as it does not violate the natural law. We have lost the idea of freedom and the natural law. That's why we have these conflicts. It becomes a matter of power politics.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Legalize All Drugs Because..... Cognitive Liberty

Thu, 4 Feb 2016 17:37:37 +0000

They are social liberals. And legalizing all drugs is still stupid.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Joyce Arthur: Ban Right to Conscientious Objection

Thu, 4 Feb 2016 15:54:09 +0000

Thanks for the heads up! I have fixed the link.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Auschwitz vs. an Abortion Clinic: Similarities and Differences

Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:32:03 +0000

If by \"edited\" you mean they were put together, of course they were put together, like any video. But nobody supplied the words of the Planned Parenthood officials. Their words speak for themselves. The picture of the aborted fetus in the lab speaks for itself.

When Planned Parenthood officials make claims about how much money they give for anatomical parts, or how they don't want to be perceived as making a profit, or how abortion procedures are changed to get the right parts, that's not pro-life editing.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Auschwitz vs. an Abortion Clinic: Similarities and Differences

Sun, 31 Jan 2016 18:49:03 +0000

When Planned Parenthood officials stated how much money they expected for anatomical parts, that wasn't pro-life editing. When the video showed a shredded baby, that wasn't pro-life editing.

The whole \"editing\" meme is hollow. You can't fake aborted babies in a lab or the words and the speech of Planned Parenthood officials.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Auschwitz vs. an Abortion Clinic: Similarities and Differences

Sun, 31 Jan 2016 18:25:43 +0000

"because you're saying that you have no arguments left, other than demonisation. " Exactly my point. People will think that's the point of comparing a clinic to Auschwitz. "You can't just ignore defining features and then pretend it is your audience's fault for including them. " The defining features of Auschwitz are mass killing and dehumanization. "The site of the Oklahoma City Bombing is a place of mass killing of dehumanised victims, that does not make it like Auschwitz" The building wasn't designed for killing, whereas Auschwitz was designed to kill. "You can't separate Auschwitz from the deliberate program of extermination of the Jewish people and anyone deemed detrimental to the "Aryan master race", because that is what it stands for, not just for generic mass killings. " Sure you can. Lynching and Auschwitz have elements in common. Do you notice how lynching involves de-humanization and widespread killing? But lynching wasn't a program to eliminate black people. It wasn't genocide. See how easy that was? It was a very apt analogy. "You also have much too high an opinion of your fellow pro-lifers if you think they're making the comparison in that limited sense. Just look at neal_ford's comment and tell me he's really not saying that PP is a Schutzstaffel-like death cult involved in genocide and eugenics. " Some pro-lifers might err in their extensions, and some might not. It doesn't mean the analogy doesn't stand. Auschwitz is a place of mass killing resulting from de-humanization and an abortion clinic is a place of mass killing resulting from dehumanization.

BIG BLUE WAVE : Auschwitz vs. an Abortion Clinic: Similarities and Differences

Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:30:58 +0000

As if the Planned Parenthood officials were NEVER caught on camera offering money for anatomical parts. Who are you going to believe, the abortion activists or your lying eyes?