Now, I would love to take the opportunity to analyze the 13
points that make up the “culture of life,” and how this is relevant to both
contemporary Christianity and
contemporary feminism, but that would result in a post so long, that neither of
us would want to read it in the end. If
you want to read into all 13 points, be my guest. Instead, I will do my best to paraphrase.
Human beings are creators.
I honestly believe this is an inescapable fact, something so deep in our
DNA that we could not change it if we tried.
When God breathed life into us so that we became part of Him, that instinctual
creative force that He gave us is what we mean when we say we are made in the
likeness of our Creator.
Women, unlike men, were not only given the instinct to
create, but the equipment as well. Our
ability to not only create life, but to sustain it simultaneously with our own
until it is to the point of self-sustaining (aka birth), makes us uniquely
capable of nurturing the creative instinct.
Birth-control and abortion, and the recent movement toward “fertility
rights” severely cheapen this ability. It
likens our ultimate creative ability to a nuisance, an ordinary bodily function.
The other forces of the “culture of death” such as
infidelity, murder, unjust war, are also destructive forces, and therefore, attempts
to incapacitate our attempts at creation.
Now, it is something to ponder that in order to create, we
must destroy. However, when the
destructiveness does not end in creativity, nor does it have the goal of
creation in mind, we should be dead against it.
As thinking human beings, as Christians, as women, we should be dead-set
against it. Otherwise, we are mere cogs
in the machine that churn out more life-ending destructiveness.
1 comment:
Good points and nicely written!
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