hell’s handmaiden

In a comment on my recent post about Decadent Old Europe, SamD, of SamuelDouglas.wordpress.com, pointed me towards an article worth quote mining. The piece is from the Journal of Religion and Society. It is cross-national comparison of the more secular vs. the more religious developed democracies. The numbers in square brackets, [], indicate paragraphs as numbered in the original document and numbers inside the sideways carets, <>, indicate footnotes in the original document.

There are arguments against abortion.

And then there is this.

Intellectuals these days often argue that a woman has a right to choose. Our holy spirit says if she knew what was really going on beneath all surface appearances, a woman would not have a question of choice.

Abortion or Birth? Who Believes There is a Choice?

And the anti-intectuals argue what? “Oh look at the cute baby! Such a cutie. Yes you are.”

Some literary examples?

“Izzum’s ickle heart a-beatin’ so floppity! Um’s own mumsy make ums all right, um’s p’eshus Flopit!” — Booth Tarkington.

Poetically speaking, he may be right. Or perhaps, “humans are little balls of goo”? Hmmm….

The current Pope has stepped into the abortion debate and stated that “God sees embryos as “full and complete” humans” and that “The loving eyes of God look on the human being, considered full and complete at its beginning…”

World News Article | Reuters.co.uk

He cites Psalm 139 as evidence.

In Psalm 139, the psalmist says to God: “Thou didst see my limbs unformed in the womb, and in thy book they are all recorded.”