Some things must be said for posterity’s sake. It’s not because
you are hoping to change anyone’s mind on a given subject, or make them see the
situation from a different angle. Let’s face it; for the most part, people have
cemented themselves so thoroughly to a position that nothing save a bulldozer will
move them from it. They know what they know, and no amount of evidence to the
contrary will change their minds.
Healthy debate is dead and buried, and the level of
polarization is such even among believers, that if you dare point out the holes
in their hypothesis, well, then you’re just an agent of darkness, working hand
in hand with Beelzebub himself, having pretended at being a Christian for the
last three decades so that you can muddy the waters.
We will no longer allow for the possibility that someone’s
views or position on a certain topic have changed over the years, even though
we boast about belonging to the faith that is all about a transformational
experience wherein we no longer think as we once thought, among other things. Nope,
once a cur always a cur, even though all evidence points to the contrary. We
know what we know, and will not let pesky things like facts detour us from our
stated position.
Recently this current president spoke at the march for life
rally in Washington D.C., live and in person, something no other president before
him has done. Even though we’ve had staunch pro-life supporters in the white
house before, they usually recorded a message and played it for the crowds, but
none had shown up in person thus far.
The speech itself was an ode to the beauty and preciousness
of life, insisting that each life was a gift from God and must be treated as
such.
The more cynical among us would be quick to insist that this
was nothing more than a political stunt; red meat for the base, something to
pacify a certain demographic. If this were the case, he could have easily
recorded a message, as have all other presidents before him, and more likely
than not, the demographic would have been just as pacified.
Understand that from a purely political standpoint, making a
personal appearance at something as polarizing as the march for life, is not in
this president’s best interest. His base isn’t going anywhere, and between any
of the candidates running on the other side and their insistence that it’s
perfectly fine to kill a baby while it’s crowning, and the stance this
administration has taken, the choice is a no-brainer.
The fact that he made an appearance at the march for life,
will likely be used as a cudgel by those whose biggest fear is that that the supreme
court will overturn Roe V Wade if he wins another term, and his advisers are
politically savvy enough to have pointed this out, yet he showed up anyway.
With love in Christ,
Michael Boldea Jr.
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