March 22, 2005
KILL HER, THAT'LL TEACH 'EM:
Whose God Is God? (John P. Avlon, 3/22/05, NY Sun)
‘Whose God is God?” thundered the Reverend Jesse Jackson from a podium placed at the altar of The Riverside Church to an assembled crowd of the left-leaning political and religious faithful on Sunday afternoon.“There is a profound theological debate in our nation tonight about the nature and character of God… . Today the Congress reconvenes to save a woman — Terry Schiavo — from starving to death, but then vote to starve millions everyday. Whose God is God? They fight to save the fetus, and then starve the babies. Whose God is God?”
So this is just revenge on the Left's part? Posted by Orrin Judd at March 22, 2005 6:54 PM
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On topic, I encourage you to visit CodeBlueBlog. Fascinating. Certainly grabbed my attention.
Posted by: ghostcat at March 22, 2005 7:19 PMAh, yes, the "Starve Millions of Babies Act of 2005." How well I remember that... Much as Rev. (cough) Jackson said, Republicans voted for it every day just to rub it in the faces of the benighted Democrats.
Posted by: Timothy at March 22, 2005 7:36 PMNot revenge. Cluelessness:
http://paragraphfarmer.blogspot.com/2005/03/barbershop-story.html
Posted by: Patrick O'Hannigan at March 22, 2005 7:41 PMJackson is the perfect preacher for the left. Irrelevant, scandal-ridden, and morally confused.
Posted by: Pontius at March 22, 2005 8:02 PMHe's not confused - he's mendacious. Charlie Rangel is confused.
Posted by: jim hamlen at March 22, 2005 8:21 PMThe servants of Molech and Baal should probably avoid preaching from 1 Kings ch. 18.
Posted by: Random Lawyer at March 22, 2005 8:44 PMJust another audacious and brilliant Karl Rove maneuver.
Just keep 'em talking.
So this is just revenge on the Left's part?
In part; it's also another opportunity to establish the disposability of the lives of powerless people.
Consider, say, a month ago, before Terri's plight took center stage, if you had asked someone in the abstract: "How would you feel about starving and dehydrating a defenseless, brain-damaged woman?" The answer is easy to imagine: "Outrageous, atrocious -- something that wouldn't be done to an animal and couldn't be done to the worst convicted murderer." But then it actually happens ... slowly. You're powerless to stop it, and ... you find your life goes on. There are kids and jobs and triumphs and tragedies and everyday just-getting-by. An atrocity becomes yet another awful thing going on in the world. After a day, or maybe two, of initial flabbergast, we're talking again about social security reform, China, North Korea, Hezbollah, etc. A woman's snail-like, gradual torture goes from savagery to just one of those sad facts of life. As is the case with other depravities once believed unthinkable, it coarsens us. We slowly, and however reluctantly, accept it. We accept it. The New York Times no doubt soon "progresses" from something like "terminating life by starvation," to "the dignity of death by starvation," to "the medical procedure that opponents refer to as starvation."
--Andrew McCarthy, National Review Online
Posted by: Mike Morley at March 23, 2005 6:19 AM