Reflections on March 12, 1980

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If you have any doubt that male and female are physically different and meant to be different, you have to go no further than witnessing very closely the stages and finality of child bearing. What a woman’s body goes through in this process in miraculous and amazing and is completely and utterly impossible in man. Yet, women in this day and age want to throw that away and want to be exactly like men, treated and looked upon exactly like men. (Although we know that isn’t entirely true. The world is very schizophrenic in this regard. Equal everything like men but use the sexuality of our bodies to sell us anything. They want to use the difference when convenient, but say there is no difference when it suits them.) But they are not the same. Women are made for child bearing, as degrading as some might think that sounds, it is said with the upmost respect and awe. Child bearing is such a beautiful thing that is unique to the female. It is no small surprise that a culture in which women want to be seen as exactly like males in all aspects of life would look upon the most important uniqueness (child bearing) as a disease to be avoided or removed when it occurs.

The idea of objective and “pure” subjectivity as witnessed in the consummation of marriage is much easier to grasp when we have a clearer understanding from before on authentic subjectivity. Male and female discover each other in a unique physical way, thus getting a sense of the objective meaning, how God made them. When the gift is fully accepted and given, they also get an understanding of what they mean to each other, what they give to each other, what the learn about themselves through each other. This experience gives them a “pure” subjectivity. As we stated early, the closer these two are to the same view, the more authentic, the closer to God’s divine and original meaning.

It is something to reflect on, the gift from God that a child is. The conjugal act can take place without anything happening, and sometimes no one can explain why there is no child. There are many times the act happens and despite attempts to stop a child, there is one created. If you believe in a loving God, if you believe He is in control, if you believe that He graces loving couples with children as a gift, then you must stand firm in the cases when a child comes into the world through actions that are not loving. You simply cannot choose when to believe God is loving and all powerful and when you think God has made some mistake. I completely understand how those that do not believe in God can turn their mind to biology and human motives and convince themselves that abortion is always a choice. I cannot understand how a believing Christian can disregard the will of God in bringing a child into the world because the method that child came in. The entire argument that such an evil act cannot bring about any good or is too traumatic has to only look at the cross. If you truly believe God is in control, then you must take what you determine is good with what you see as the bad and realize God’s gifts are all good and He can bring His goodness out of the worst of all evils. Abortion should never be allowed because that child is a gift from God, regardless of how or why that gift was given. God’s plan in for the good, trust in that.

Words I looked up.

Archetype - the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.