8 thoughts on “Abortion”

  3. Speaking of babylon, I sent you an email, in case you havent seen it.

    The biggest obstacle to evangelizing about abortion is that the truth is horrifying. At risk of running afoul of Godwins Law, imagine a well intended German joining the Nazi party because they believe in wealth redistribution, and then you try and explain to them that the holocaust is happening also. The consequences of that truth are so dire that its understandable that they would go to great lengths to deny that reality. Sometimes the redpill goes down easy, but on this topic its very bitter indeed.

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  4. Scoot, I hadn’t seen it. My tech ignorance abides 🙂 This comment of yours is spot on, and it seems to me to correspond to your prior excellent comment about distraction.

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  5. The latest Matrix film release has me thinking on pills. The colors have multiplied beyond all reason, but the final forms they seem to have taken is the blackpill and whitepill, along with the originals. Scoot’s excellent recent piece on cynicism has me thinking on how best to deal with these tragic dichotomies.

    The redpill is what people’s idea of purgatory is, the blackpill is people’s idea of hell and the whitepill is their idea of heaven. What is clarified to me is no-one can even conceive of heaven without being able to conceive of hell and purgatory, but not vice versa. It is far more common now to deny salvation because original and actual sin are denied, rather than the antique pagans who conceived of hell but denied salvation because of man’s weakness.

    That is the ultimate “bluepill.” These people deny evil by pretending that it doesn’t exist, that frees them from the logical conclusion that evil will be punished but also that good will be rewarded.

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  6. David,

    That’s such an interesting comment. I’ve thought a lot about all “the pills” as well and sometimes I wonder if the whole phenomena has been more bad than good?

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  7. Hello Wood,

    Zippy’s “infrared pill” article lead me to think of the “redpill” as purgatory, though it’s not a perfect analogy because the “redpilled” could go on to recognize ever more of what he doesn’t know, or just get stuck. The basic problem with the “pills” is our knowledge is always incomplete or not totally correct, and also that no one is ever really totally wrong, on everything.

    Far worse is what it has become with whitepills and blackpills. Those mostly now refer to either the latest political news being good or bad, respectively, or just general delusional optimism/pessimism.

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