Various & Sundry
November 16, 2005
Our new Books editor has sent me notice of his latest “puff piece” at some kind of hep neo-sub-post-YAF/John Bircher website. I can’t relate, personally, but it is a good piece of writing. Young Dougherty also notified me of this item on sex and death from the healthfully reactionary right-wing radicals at Chronicles:
Christianity, though some of the early fathers were too skeptical about marriage and sex, has represented an affirmation and elevation and transfiguration of marital relations. When the churches turned first to contraception and then to abortion, they became the church of Antichrist. (I understand that ELCA Lutherans pay for their pastorettes’ abortions.) The deeper meaning of this revolution I glimpsed yesterday, reading about a bizarre Gnostic sect whose members devoted 365 different copulations to 365 different supernatural forces. Contraception was the rule, but where contraception failed, they had recourse to abortions carried out in combination with grotesque rituals. This worship of sex and death, I submit to you in all seriousness, is the diabolical religion of mainstream “Christianity” today.
The parenthetical item on the ELCA is interesting, but my guess is this is a tendentious claim based on the mere fact that the ELCA provides its pastors with health insurance, and many providers cover abortion. I do not know if alternative and acceptable providers without such coverage exist. More importantly, I do not know how the ELCA would handle the case of a female minister who procured an abortion, with or without it being paid for by the church.
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