Renowned late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered yesterday while attending service at his church. You've probably already noted that the pro-abortion crowd is making political hay blaming anti-abortion groups for the actions of the lone, nutcase-anarchist who killed Tiller.
Talking Points Memo is known as a top-shelf liberal blog (liberalism at the top lefty blogs is so complete that it extends to taking liberties even with spelling). The doctor's body had barely hit the ground before Talking Points made the usual idiotic case that you, if you believe abortion is murder and have the temerity to speak about your belief, are responsible for Tiller's death.
No one is fooled Reverend. No one is fooled Father. The time for your dishonet (sic) distancing of yoursevles (sic) from the logical outcome of all your rhetoric is over.
Ultimately, you are guilty of this crime and need to take responsibility for the murder you have caused to be committed in your names and in the name of Jesus. Confess and repent before you kill another innocent man or woman and disgrace yourselves any further and before you bring further disgrace to your churches.
Here we see one of the more blatant problems with liberalism, the idea that the insane machinations and actions of a raving lunatic represent "the logical outcome of all your rhetoric." I'm not quite sure how an ideology that believes that man can be made perfect fits with the idea that lunatic acts are the logical end result of preaching opposition to government policy. But only this particular policy. Perhaps you have to believe that man is only perfectible outside of God to get it. Or perhaps you have to be a nitwit.
The murder of anyone is sad. Loss of life, even when justified - which this was not - is not a happy occasion. Unless you happen to have your Talking Points Memo ready and waiting for the occasion.
The murder of an abortion doctor is news. Big news. Because it almost never happens. The loon that did this should be killed, immediately after a very brief trial finds him guilty. But liberals won't allow any of that, especially not the speedy trial part. Not even for an eee-vil Christian.
But the left is right about one thing. This is an occasion to look at the bigger picture. As far as dangerous political groups go however, abortion opponents and their ideas don't kill anywhere near the number of people that, say, enviro-wackos do. See malaria deaths in Africa thanks to criminalizing the use of DDT for just one example that has killed millions of people.
Likewise, the people who think it's a good idea to promote single motherhood are responsible for far more deaths than anti-abortion activists. So are the people who want to legalize heroin. Trade unions (particularly their bosses) kill more people, as do those who oppose capitalism, like Lenin... Perhaps you get the point.
Once every year or so one of our loons kills someone or a group of someones over abortion. But anti-abortion is not an ideology founded in death, as the other side's is. There is no cause and effect.
A person not acting on the principles of his religion, which in no way allows a person to bring another to justice without the use of law, is not a religion-motivated killing. It is the act of a maniac.
The murder of Doctor Tiller was such an act. And the left uses it to urge more people to not follow the principles of their religion?
Makes sense.
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Anti-religious bigotry is becoming a core liberal value; fairly hypocritical, given how often liberals rail against intolerance. I've read numerous articles in which the left blames the passage of Prop 8 in CA on their favorite whipping boys, "Mormons and Catholics".
If one does the arithmetic, you can see this is fairly ludicrous. The most recent Gallup poll (5/27) shows that support for same-sex marriage has peaked, and that most Americans now oppose it, 57-40%. This shows that a broad consensus--not a narrow band of Christian zealots--supports traditional marriage, a fact liberals can't bear to admit. Instead, they blame their woes on two much-maligned religions, Catholics and Mormons. Needless to say,this is fairly despicable.
The poll has one add'l insight: blacks overwhelmingly oppose gay marriage, with only 30% finding same sex relations morally acceptable. You will NEVER hear liberals mention that; it doesn't fit their narrative. Easier to engage in demonizing religion.
Scott,
Of course religion is responsible for the political assassination of the good doctor. Christian fundamentalism is domestic terrorism. Time to round up all the bible thumpers and put them into reeducation camps.
trailrunner your analysis is way off. Gay marriage is opposed by the un educated and the old. Young educated people support gay marriage in overwhelming numbers. Your mention of race is simply a red herring. It is only a matter of time. The old will die and the uneducated will become enlightened (hopefully).
All good people should oppose the ignorance and bigotry that is religion. Religious superstition must be eradicated if we are to survive as a species.
For we Christians who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, it is a waste of time to argue the abortion issue with anyone Christian, Atheist, etc. who does not believe God creates life. If one believes human life began as a random event in a pool of primorial goo evolving over millions of years into the animal species with us today (including humankind), and if life is meaningless happenstance ending in death and decay without any possiblity of spiritual eternity, then killing a fetus is a logical and necessary event if the fetus is going to be an inconvenience. Abortion debate is pointless, neither side will be convinced otherwise unless God changes the heart of the non-believer. I am grieved that Dr. Tiller was murdered and I feel for both families. One must look however, at the hearts of both the victim and the killer and realize that neither was living out the hope that lies in Jesus Christ and following the precepts of the author of their salvation. What a shame!
Olivia--your comment is breathtaking in its ignorance, mainly because it relies on generalizations. And apparently, elderly people (or as you put it, "the old") are now a target of the left's hate. The liberals' enemies list must be getting a little long.
Again, last week's Gallup poll shows that 57% of the public oppose same sex marriage. That's a pretty broad swath--in political terms, a landslide. To believe that it's comprised only of "the uneducated and the old" shows that you are clueless in the extreme.
But the most chilling part of your little rant against religion is the second sentence:
"Time to round up all the bible thumpers and put them into reeducation camps"
This sounds like something out of Nazi Germany; are you channelling Hitler? Just change two words, and you get Hitler's strategy--he rounded up the Jews, and put them into concentration camps.
Anti-religious hatred and bigotry were monstrous in that time, and they are equally ugly today.
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