Comments on: Silent Night, Deadly Night

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:24:52 +0000

Another thing that's striking to me about some of my "2-kids then get vasectomized" friends and co-workers is their lack of desire to have a son. Don't get me wrong. I love my daughter dearly and would be a happy man if God had given me all girls. But isn't it normal for a man to want the things that accompany a son. Sharing of boyhood and later manhood, the joy of helping them grow into it, the continuity of a man's patriline, etc. Those things don't seem to mean much to them.

By: Jeff Anderson

Jeff Anderson — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:42:49 +0000

I'm often asked why my wife and I have five children. My response is simply, "We started too late."

Hindsight.

I wonder if paradise is filled with the souls of children, eyes on fire, crying out to the Lord "How long?" Reckoning is a concept many of us have forgotten.

I believe we will be reminded.

By: Etienne Gervaise

Etienne Gervaise — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:52:43 +0000

@28

"and not be blinded by prosperity."

I love this guy! Why am I only hearing about him now? Oh yes, Luxembourg. I'll be sure to include his duchy in my next European tour.

By: J. Meng

J. Meng — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:04:03 +0000

From the other end of the Cult of Death spectrum, check out this bit of ugly news from Europe.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14534

By: Etienne Gervaise

Etienne Gervaise — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:25:24 +0000

And the good news just keeps pouring in for PPIN!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/05/video-captures-abortion-coaching/

The video is also on YouTube

By: Aaron D. Wolf

Aaron D. Wolf — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:55:10 +0000

Bruce @24: I think you're onto something. Math aside, doesn't it indicate that a society has the sickness unto death if it despises children? Folks have one or two and then say, "That's enough!" Are diapers really that difficult? Bruce @25: Glad you got the reference and the point of the reference. Sometimes my titles are too clever by half. I'd originally called it "Santa Claus: Killer," but then I remembered that awful movie.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:27:35 +0000

For anyone who didn't get the reference the article title is also the name of series of tasteless 80's slasher flicks where Kris Kringle is a serial killer.

Axe-murders are scary but baby-murderers aren't.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:23:25 +0000

Taken literally, doesn't the commandment (blessing?) to be fruitful and multiply (increase your numbers) mean at least three children?

By: Etienne Gervaise

Etienne Gervaise — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:00:23 +0000

Why is it that good must "tolerate" evil, but evil must stick it to the good at every turn?

Anyway, we can still proclaim families with only one or two kids as barren wombs which fail to be fruitful and multiply by meeting the 2.3 children required for a population's replacement rate.

By: Mark Higdon

Mark Higdon — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:54:09 +0000

What is the one glimmer of hope in this apocalyptic narrative and commentary? It is that the Culture of Death is self-exterminating. Much has been made by the co-opted and politicized MSPLM (Mainstream Pro-Life Movement) of how abortion stats are down. The Movement is inclined to credit this phenomenon to its constituents' political "victories," which consist mostly of "restrictions" on abortion. Which "legal" restrictions merely serve to validate and reinforce the lethal "logic" of Roe. Giving credit where it is due, I allow that pro-life sidewalk counselors (who are not dependent on politics to ply their trade; and often face arrest, incarceration and torture as they do so) are capable of dissuading a few women from killing their pre-born in-utero. However, my theory is that abortions are down mainly for one simple reason: A significant number of a generation likely to abort their own was never born because--you guessed it--they themselves were aborted or contracepted. Comments? Bring them on!