MEMBER BLOG TAG: august
| Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:54PM | | | | Southern Baptists and Abortion | Tags: Baptists, abortion, fundamentalists, Augustine, Acquinas, Billy Graham, W.A. Criswell, Paul Weyrich, immaculate conception
| | | | In male dominated cultures there has always been birth on demand. A woman’s primary duty was to provide a male heir for her husband. If she did not, her husband was free to use another woman for the purpose. That woman had no will of her own. (Genesis 16) It wasn’t rape because the woman had no rights.
In wars, the victors often killed everyone who wasn’t useful as a slave and Moses ordered Hebrew warriors to do so. Neither pregnant women nor their fetuses were spared. However, warriors could take virgin girls for personal use. (Numbers 31) A woman’s only alternative to birth on demand was abortion or suicide, often the same thing.
Chinese folklore mentions induced abortions in 5000 BC but the earliest recorded... | | | | | | | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:37PM | | | | a midsummer night's dream | Tags: psyche, midsummer, august, 2008, ranson, sadi ranson, PEN, tant mieux, editorial, a word, opinion, dreams, dream
| | | | It is officially Midsummer, which means that I am becoming officially depressed. Or perhaps I will. I can't say yet. It's something I am fighting as I learn that summer does not have to be the "end" of something but that rather, it can be a beginning. Any ending is also likewise a beginning. When we are awake, our waking life, is no less rich than our dream life. In fact, I could argue that my dream life is far more valuable and true than my waking life these days. My waking life is full of fact and work and sometimes hurt (miscommunications, the sort of thing that has you yearning and bending your ear to Glenn Campbell's Wichita Lineman, a song I have always... | | | | | |
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