Obama vs. the Right to Life

Moloch machine in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927)

A vital essay on Obama vs. the Right to Life comes from the National Catholic Register. In Girardian terms, who are the smallest, weakest, most silent victims in today's world, pray tell? Don't say Palestineans. Don't say gays. Don't say Hamas. Don't say "victims of hate speech." They are the humans trying to be born rather than becoming fodder for the Moloch idolatry industry. From the essay:

Obama once described why he thinks abortion should be legal through all nine months of a woman’s pregnancy.

“Whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the Equal Protection Clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a child, a 9-month old child that was delivered to term,” he said. “That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place.”

How could Obama be so opposed to the right to life? He may have let slip one reason at a March Town Hall meeting in Pennsylvania.

“Look, I’ve got two daughters, 9 years old and 6 years old,” Obama said. “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

This attitude of Mr. Obama is exemplary of the "Enlightened" progressive mind-set obtained by the secularist (read: atheistic) humanism of higher education in the West. It is similar to the down-stream effect of 19th century Romanticism upon the Decadents and, finally, Nihilists.

The problem is, such progressivism brings with it a last-gasp optimism that things can "change", get better, somehow get beyond the realities of Original Sin. It can't. Inevitable disappointment will throw adherents into an even worse state of despair about humanity.

As Barack Hussein Obama shows too clearly, progressivism is only Nietzschean blather after all, and secular messiahs who profess to lead to betterment lead finally yet again for their own will to power. All the PhDs and higher education in the world can't undo the realities taught and vouchsafed by Catholic truth.

Anthropology is our being made imago dei; ontology is remaining in the True Vine, Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh (Jn 1,14); epistemology is aligning one's heart and head with the faith and reason of Christ's one holy Catholic and apostolic Church. Stray from these at your peril.

That which will not accept the Gospel will become one-with pagan myth ipso facto. Enlightened progressivism that does not bow to Christ will inevitably bow to Moloch.

Which leads me to call Mr. Barack Hussein Obama by a new nickname: Lord Feverstone.