Abortion is a sacrament for the leftist antireligion -- ritualistic child-sacrifice on the altar consecrated to the human will. So says Joseph at Arimathea (h/t Kristor):
Last month before the March for Life, I was thinking about an idea that I have encountered in recent years that abortion is a sacrament for the Left. Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life notes that Ginette Paris published the book, The Sacrament of Abortion, in A.D. 1992, wherein she supports abortion as a pagan affirmation of life. I was surprised that the idea has its origin on the Left, but I should get used to the perversity of this world. Although the prophet Isaiah proclaims, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!,” one must not forget that the wicked delight in wickedness.
Upon reflection, however, I think that the Left’s position is remarkably consistent given human nature. Consider sacrifice and its place in human society. Sacrifice is pretty much a universal human phenomenon. Man gives up something dear to his gods. Crudely, this act is seen as a transaction wherein the sacrificer seeks to appease divine anger or curry divine favor. The more philosophical understanding is that by sacrifice man makes clear to himself and to everyone the proper order of being, where lesser goods are given up for greater ones. The act of sacrifice to the gods demonstrates vividly to the human soul and to the human community the appropriate hierarchy of the world; it is an impressive (as in impression making) act that proclaims the community’s ranking of values.
As Joseph notes, the idea of abortion as a sacrament actually originates on the left.
The true nature of the Leftist Religion is kept hidden from all but its most devout practitioners (and its most heretical apostates), and thus the great unthinking and uninterested middle remains steadfastly in its grip, only by believing, usually against reason, its pious platitudes and refusing to even entertain that there is such a thing as the Leftist Religion... much less one that would fully own their souls.
Imagine trying to communicate this idea (viz., abortion as sacrament) to the average garden variety leftist. In the unlikely event he were open-minded enough and had sufficient attention span to discover your true meaning, he would still, in the end, while acknowledging some leftists might think this way, deny that *he* believes that: NALALT.
But *of course* not all leftists are like that. If they were, then leftists would have all gone long ago to the fiery deaths they deserve, and truly there would today be no leftists. And yet, Garden Variety Leftist, the one who is surely "not like that," the mainstream moves ever and increasingly leftward, ever increasingly against reason, and yet more popular even than Jesus now. And just how is that possible, hmmm?
Posted by: Steve Nicoloso | February 15, 2012 at 12:43 PM