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(02/06/07)
The March for Life was a March for
Truth
Paul Murano
The 34th
annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. on January
22nd, gathering tens of thousands from around the
country, remained under the radar. The mainstream
media, once again, refused to cover it.
Why?
The journalistic arm of the cultural left sees abortion
as the necessary back-up for the fornication culture it
created upon the birth control pill. This march
symbolized blasphemy against the religion of secular
humanism and its four-decades-old culture of death, where
the gods of equality (translated as sameness) and
relativism reign. In this post-Christian religion,
women are masculinized and men feminized. With the
feminization of thought, personal experience and emotion
displace objectivity and reason. Taken to the
extreme, nothing is real unless it is experienced and
felt.
If truth and goodness are purely subjective, we create
our reality rather than discover it. Here is the
crux of our current culture war: Is truth and morality
created by us or is it to be discovered and conformed
to?
The former is the religion of secular humanism, the
latter Christianity. The former has man as its
center and ultimate authority, the latter has God.
This intellectual path away from ethical monotheism and
natural law can look enticing: we can re-create reality
simply by manipulating the language and convincing enough
people. Thats a lot of power. If we dont
like the definition of marriage, redefine it. If
human beings become burdensome, redefine them to give us
room for abortion and euthanasia.
Such self-deception, however, always leads to
death. The biblical principle that lies lead to
death can not be denied for very long. The war in
Iraq is a legitimate concern, but the media and
intelligentsia of this country have refused to recognize
a gruesome war ongoing since January 22, 1973.
The late Mother Teresa once said: If mothers are killing
their own children by abortion, how can we possibly ask
other people to stop killing each other? By making
pre-birth homicide a legal choice we have declared war on
God; and since that declaration 60 million of us, 1.5
million per year, 4400 per day, every single day in this
country, have been sacrificed to the gods of the religion
of the cultural left. I asked a female friend who
is pro-life why, in a world that one-third of us under 34
years old are missing due to abortion, theres so
little alarm or outrage. She mentioned its
because people need a face. She admitted that with
most people unless there is a name and a face, it
doesnt become part of their personal
experience. It isnt real to them.
The irony is that this feminine psyche expressed above is
what makes women beautiful. The focus on personal
experience, relationships, and emotional responses are
what makes them attractive to men as potential wives,
mothers, and glue of the community. However, it is
a two-edged sword. The first woman in Eden needed
to personally experience the forbidden fruit in order to
understand its value. Adam, who should have
utilized his power of reason and objectivity to stop her,
gave in. Theologians call him the first wimp.
The more men rely on personal experience and emotion to
discern truth and define reality, the more we become a
society of wimps. What the annual Walk for Life in
Washington, D.C. showed us on January 22nd was that there
is hope for a non-wimpish future. Experience as
well as reason moved many young people, tens of thousands
of them, on that bitterly cold day, to stand up for truth
despite the gods of egalitarianism, androgyny, and
relativism of the religion of secular humanism.
Many women held up signs stating, I Regret My
Abortion.
They are members of the Silent No More Awareness
Campaign of women who have had abortions.
Young men braved the cold to stand up for those who have
no voice of their own, simply because it was the right
thing to do. And, both young men and women under
34, realizing they are survivors of the abortion-age,
exercised their obligation to speak out.
One third of their peers were not so lucky. It was
a time to show that legalized abortion produces broken
women, missing children, and a weakened nation. It
was a time to celebrate life and mourn all those who lost
theirs before birth. It was a time for men, called
to love and protect women and children by nature, to
speak out against injustice despite how unpopular it
might be. On January 22nd real men stood up with
broken women who had abortions and others who respect the
sanctity of human life, to proclaim proudly and
courageously together: We must be silent no more.
Paul Murano teaches theology and philosophy at
Assumption College and Northshore Community College. He
is also the producer of Paying Attention! Radio Program
on WCAP. You can E-mail Paul at PJDM@aol.com
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The February 2007
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