In Control
Johannah Faith Duggar was born at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and weighed 7 pounds, 6.5 ounces.
"Where is... the funky tattooed intellectual poetess who, along with her genius anarchist husband, is popping out 16 funky progressive intellectually curious fashion-forward pagan offspring to answer the Duggar's squad of über-white future Wal-Mart shoppers? Where is the liberal, spiritualized, pro-sex flip side? Verily I say unto thee, it ain't lookin' good."
-Mark Morford, God Does Not Want 16 Kids
Matt Colvin posted a short, nifty response to this heinous, almost desperate sounding, newspaper column.
Matt wrote,
"For all the author's feigned concern for the well-being of the 16 "hungry" children, and for the overpopulation problem, he is actually distressed about Christians having babies because he fears their cultural influence. It angers him that a Christian couple has 16 Christian kids. He is frightened of the prospect of those 16 kids each having more kids. The author frets, "gay couples still can't openly adopt a baby in most states." Which of course, wouldn't be a concern, were it not for the fact that they can't reproduce in any states."
Reading Matt's response (and, indeed, it was Matt's post that made me aware of the hostile article) reminded me of a Doug Wilson post from last year that has stuck with me since I read it.
The irony is that for thirty years, pro-life Christians have been unsuccessfully trying to dissuade secularists from killing their own replacements, the next generation of secularists. We have failed in this, but in that failure we must come to see the severe judgment of a holy God. And because sin never makes sense, when it finally completely dawns on the secularists what they have succeeded in doing, they will become furious with us. Why? Because we have children, we received them from the hand of God, we loved them, we gave them a real education in the ways of the covenant. As the bumper sticker puts it, "I'm pro-life and I vote. And so do all my kids."
Johannah Faith Duggar was born at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and weighed 7 pounds, 6.5 ounces.
"Where is... the funky tattooed intellectual poetess who, along with her genius anarchist husband, is popping out 16 funky progressive intellectually curious fashion-forward pagan offspring to answer the Duggar's squad of über-white future Wal-Mart shoppers? Where is the liberal, spiritualized, pro-sex flip side? Verily I say unto thee, it ain't lookin' good."
-Mark Morford, God Does Not Want 16 Kids
Matt Colvin posted a short, nifty response to this heinous, almost desperate sounding, newspaper column.
Matt wrote,
"For all the author's feigned concern for the well-being of the 16 "hungry" children, and for the overpopulation problem, he is actually distressed about Christians having babies because he fears their cultural influence. It angers him that a Christian couple has 16 Christian kids. He is frightened of the prospect of those 16 kids each having more kids. The author frets, "gay couples still can't openly adopt a baby in most states." Which of course, wouldn't be a concern, were it not for the fact that they can't reproduce in any states."
Reading Matt's response (and, indeed, it was Matt's post that made me aware of the hostile article) reminded me of a Doug Wilson post from last year that has stuck with me since I read it.
The irony is that for thirty years, pro-life Christians have been unsuccessfully trying to dissuade secularists from killing their own replacements, the next generation of secularists. We have failed in this, but in that failure we must come to see the severe judgment of a holy God. And because sin never makes sense, when it finally completely dawns on the secularists what they have succeeded in doing, they will become furious with us. Why? Because we have children, we received them from the hand of God, we loved them, we gave them a real education in the ways of the covenant. As the bumper sticker puts it, "I'm pro-life and I vote. And so do all my kids."
posted by trawlerman at 5:05 PM
1 Comments:
Until Christians abandon their contraceptive mindset, they can not be considered "pro-life".
Abortion did not spring out of a vacuum. It was preceded by decades of a strengthening anti-life acceptance among vast portions of Christians in the West.
Almost without fail, one can note the legalization of abortion following on the heels of the legalization and promotion of contraceptives from country to country.
I find it hard to find a silver lining in Doug Wilsons comments. For just as the secularists are preventing their offspring through abortion, most Christians are preventing their offspring via contraception. Unless a critical mass of Christians abandon contraception, I don't see a demographic triumph of Christianity over secularism.
And how are Chistians to abandon a mindset of contraception unless thorough and persuasive arguments are made by Christian leaders from Scripture and Tradition, as well as philosophy etc? And this is where I would ask Doug Wilson how many articles he has written on the intrinsic disorder and immorality of contraceptive acts?
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