tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post985940727078967929..comments2023-09-11T08:30:08.843-07:00Comments on Life Training Institute Blog: Cecile Richards' Morally Repugnant Belief [Clinton Wilcox]SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01905606527143286458noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-15491608696631154102014-03-01T14:20:45.587-08:002014-03-01T14:20:45.587-08:00It's interesting that the pro-life movement is...It's interesting that the pro-life movement is attempting to rely more on secular arguments than religious ones. If you go back on the Internet and look up some debates from pro-lifers 20 years ago, you'll see that often the arguments employed against abortion were often religious (it's a sin, the relevant Bible verse, etc).<br /><br />Google "secularization in christianitys opposition to pornography/" for interesting take on the same thing that is happening with opposition to pornography:<br />Thomas calls this “outsourcing moral authority”: religious leaders are relying on other authorities to back up their points of view. This suggests that even religion is undergoing secularization. (FTA)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-79038282102607429612014-02-28T17:46:32.040-08:002014-02-28T17:46:32.040-08:00They ridicule science because they completely misu...They ridicule science because they completely misunderstand the meaning of that great attribute, human freedom. As political philosopher Jacques Maritain has written, only those "properly equipped for the exercise of freedom" will not be threatened by "intelligence and science”. An obedience to the authority of truth provides a legitimate boundary around the exercise of human freedom: “One of the gravest lesions afforded us by the experience of life is that, in fact, in the practical conduct of most people, all those things which in themselves are good and very good- science, technological progress, culture... all these things, without love and good will, serve to make men all the more evil and the more unhappy...without love and charity, man turns the best in him into an evil that is yet greater.” (The Social and Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain)Jeffrey Stephaniuknoreply@blogger.com