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Maybe we can’t say a man is a man or a woman is a woman Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
I hear it everywhere I go. Our fellow citizens, especially if
they are believers, have a distinct feeling that something is different about the divisions in our nation. We’ve all lived out the battles of Right vs. Left, Conservative vs. Liberal, Democrat vs. Republican, and we are used to that battle.
But what’s happening today feels different. People are not just disagreeing, but de-platforming those who disagree. The government is not simply governing either from the Left or the Right; it is punishing those with particular viewpoints. Opposing ideas are not just being aired on campuses, but those with certain ideas are being attacked on campus.
Something is different, too, about what is being disputed. It used to be that citizens shared a common commitment
to virtue, human life and dignity, freedom, faith, family, and the good of our country. We just debated different ways of advancing those values.
Now the dispute is literally about whether those values are good or bad, and whether they should be preserved at all. Family and gender are redefined; America, her history and her symbols are trashed; and we can’t seem to even agree that the police should keep our streets peaceful.
Indeed, it is a battle between Common sense and Insanity, and more fundamentally, between Good and Evil.
Good and evil have always been in conflict, from the dawn of time, and from the day “the light came into the world, but some preferred darkness to light” (Jn. 3:19)
But it seems that today, evil has taken off its mask and
makes no more pretense to want any “moderate” positions. Recently, the largest-ever gathering of Satanists took place.
The participants in “SatanCon 2023” claimed that they were not worshipping a spiritual being called “Satan,” but rather were simply asserting the value of personal freedom.
But when that means I don’t have to follow any moral
norms outside of what I create as “my own truth” and “my own morality,” that’s exactly what Satan wants. Anything goes, as long as you don’t worship God.
This was the original temptation, “You will be like God,
knowing good and evil” (Gen. 3:5). This is why Isaiah called the King of Babylon “Lucifer,” “because you said in your heart, ‘I will be like the Most High’” (Is. 14:14) This is why, when war broke out in heaven (see Rev. 12), the one who led the battle against the devil was called “Michael” (that is, “Who is like God?”). And this is why the mind of the Holy One, as revealed by Paul in Philippians 2, is that “Though he was in the form of
God, Jesus did not deem equality with God something to be grasped; rather, he emptied himself… becoming obedient … Therefore God highly exalted him.”
It is a denial of creation that is at the heart of the “woke”
culture that embraces “critical theory” (including critical race theory), which denies the very existence of truth.
It is a denial of creation that has created a culture in
which we can’t even say a man is a man or a woman is a woman.
And maybe that’s because for fifty years we’ve been
saying a baby is not a baby. That has been the heart of the abortion culture. Roe
vs. Wade, the decision that legalized abortion in 1973, claimed the Supreme Court was “not competent to speculate as to the answer” of when human life begins.
Maybe that’s why a Supreme Court Justice today said in
her confirmation hearing that she could not define what a woman is.
This is a denial of the truth God has placed in creation.
And that confusion about creation is rooted in a denial of the Creator.
If you forget God, you will never understand his creation. And what’s worse, you’ll think that you can create it
yourself. This divorce of freedom from truth leads back to tyranny.
This was the key concern of our Founding Fathers, who in giving sovereignty to the people warned, in the words of John Adams, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Indeed. How can a people govern themselves if they’ve
forgotten the difference between good and evil? That, in a nutshell, defines the moral, cultural, and political battle of our day.
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Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life and Newsmax Contributor
Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone is one of the most prominent pro-life leaders in the world, leads
EndAbortion.US, and has been named one of the 50 pro-life leaders most responsible for the overturn of Roe vs. Wade.
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