I had a thought, here's what I thunk:
you know how there are some nasty, small-minded people out there who say stupid things like "if men could become pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament"?
well. it's almost right. what it should be, for accuracy's sake if for no other reason, is "if [the kind of] women [who want women to be priests] could become priests, abortion would be a sacrament."
(inspired by "The Catechism of the Catholic Church is 'a far cry from Nancy Pelosi’s catechism which would make Roe vs. Wade a sacred doctrine,' Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote on National Review Online.")
seriously. the kind of women who go through their little fake ordination ceremonies, and rant 'n' rave about how eeeeeeevil the patriarchal oppressive Church is, and wax on about how the Spirit calls women too but hateful, fearful menfolk won't acknowledge it, and blah blah blah, have a lot of things wrong, which makes that statement scarily true.
the Catholic Church likes sex so much that if random stuff could be made sacraments (as opposed to there being rules and regulations about that kind of thing, like "Jesus Himself must have given solid indication that this action is in actuality an outpouring of God's grace in a unique, visible form"), sex would totally be one. incredibly awkward... but still.
on the other hand, abortion could never be one, and these women (and men too, there are weird people out there) can't understand that because they don't comprehend the framework in which sacraments exist, which is obvious because they fancy women can become priests. for one thing, Jesus instituted the priesthood and we CANNOT deviate from stuff He set up. (which is also why we have what might seem wacko strict rules about EXACTLY what can constitute proper wine and proper bread for consecration.) we can't have women priests because they aren't valid matter for the sacrament of ordination. just like we can't have chocolate chip cookies for the sacrament of the Eucharist. just like we can't baptize people with milk. the STUFF isn't right, and if the STUFF isn't right, then there's no sacrament. (which is why we're so freaking picky about having gluten in the host. it's not that we want people with celiac-sprue disease to die a nasty, ironic death. it's that it's NOT JESUS - and therefore pointless pretension - without at least some teeny little dab of gluten, because then it wouldn't REALLY be wheat, and hosts must be made out of wheat and water no more no less because that is what Jesus used. yes it is, ask any Jewish historian.)
anyhoo, back to what I was saying. abortion can never be one because the three definitions of sacraments are "perceptible signs... [that] make present efficaciously the grace that they signify", "efficacious signs of grace... by which divine life is dispensed to us", and "visible sign[s] of the hidden reality of salvation".
baptism initiates us into the Body of Christ(= the Church).
confession is all about forgiveness and returning.
the Eucharist, which is the source and summit of everything (being Jesus Himself), is glaringly obvious.
confirmation is an outpouring of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the final sacrament of initiation, and fortification as an independent fighter in the Church Militant.
matrimony figures the unity and creativity of the Trinity, and mirrors the relationship between God and man.
holy orders puts a man "in persona Christi" (in the person of Christ), and is Christ's physical representative (but oh so much more) on Earth, so to speak.
extreme unction is all about the afterlife.
abortion is all about death, destruction, violation, and everything contrary to nature and supernature. not so much with the grace and salvation thing. an abortionist is invading what is meant to be the safest place in earth and one way or another brutally slaughtering its inhabitant(s). they take their pick from burning the baby to death with salt, chopping Junior into little pieces and sucking out the bloody bits with a vacuum, scraping out the woman's uterus with what amounts to a sharpened latchhook, OR letting the kid think he's going to be born breech (feet first), but as soon as his body slides out and he's only a head away from breathing air, jabbing a hole in the base of his head with a pair of scissors, opening said scissors, literally sucking out his brain with a syringe, then crushing his unlucky little head with a pair of forceps and dragging it out. by the way, for all of these, his central nervous system is already fully functional. animal rights people howl about providing painkiller for little puppies and kittens which have to be aborted, and in a lot of places that happens, but nowhere does anyone numb the HUMAN baby against such atrocities.
NOT TO MENTION all the hell the woman goes through. and that is a topic which I cannot even BEGIN to do justice to. emotional, physical, mental, spiritual... everything gets screwed up. massive amounts of leftover hormones running around going "what the FUCK just happened??" torched nerve endings answering "ARMA-FUCKING-GEDDON, that's what!" ripped uterus. internal bleeding. punctured colon. saline burns. occasionally, scrambled intestines. infertility. skyrocketing increase of breast cancer risk. depression. promiscuity. cutting and suicide. rage problems. inability to be in a healthy relationship with a man. post-traumatic shock. bitterness towards future children, and/or other people's children. loss of faith. reactions run the gamut of bleeding to black, but all the proponents of abortion will tell you is sunshine and rainbows. their lies are happy as bubbles, fake as astroturf, and heinous as Jeffrey Dahmer. they tell thousands of hurting women, every day, to shut up and get lost, and that what they are feeling isn't real.
yeah. abortion is NOT going to be a sacrament even if men COULD get pregnant, because we'd still know that it can't ever qualify. just because men could become pregnant instead of women doesn't mean we'd all lose our minds. but if we're going to throw the book out the window and have women priests, then there's no book to tell us that abortion can't be a sacrament, and some bizarre crazy bunch of women could conceivably say that it was.
abortion is kinda like... the opposite of sex.
anyhoo deven wants me to get off the computer and go to sleep, so I guess this is the end. for now.
=^.^=
well. it's almost right. what it should be, for accuracy's sake if for no other reason, is "if [the kind of] women [who want women to be priests] could become priests, abortion would be a sacrament."
(inspired by "The Catechism of the Catholic Church is 'a far cry from Nancy Pelosi’s catechism which would make Roe vs. Wade a sacred doctrine,' Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote on National Review Online.")
seriously. the kind of women who go through their little fake ordination ceremonies, and rant 'n' rave about how eeeeeeevil the patriarchal oppressive Church is, and wax on about how the Spirit calls women too but hateful, fearful menfolk won't acknowledge it, and blah blah blah, have a lot of things wrong, which makes that statement scarily true.
the Catholic Church likes sex so much that if random stuff could be made sacraments (as opposed to there being rules and regulations about that kind of thing, like "Jesus Himself must have given solid indication that this action is in actuality an outpouring of God's grace in a unique, visible form"), sex would totally be one. incredibly awkward... but still.
on the other hand, abortion could never be one, and these women (and men too, there are weird people out there) can't understand that because they don't comprehend the framework in which sacraments exist, which is obvious because they fancy women can become priests. for one thing, Jesus instituted the priesthood and we CANNOT deviate from stuff He set up. (which is also why we have what might seem wacko strict rules about EXACTLY what can constitute proper wine and proper bread for consecration.) we can't have women priests because they aren't valid matter for the sacrament of ordination. just like we can't have chocolate chip cookies for the sacrament of the Eucharist. just like we can't baptize people with milk. the STUFF isn't right, and if the STUFF isn't right, then there's no sacrament. (which is why we're so freaking picky about having gluten in the host. it's not that we want people with celiac-sprue disease to die a nasty, ironic death. it's that it's NOT JESUS - and therefore pointless pretension - without at least some teeny little dab of gluten, because then it wouldn't REALLY be wheat, and hosts must be made out of wheat and water no more no less because that is what Jesus used. yes it is, ask any Jewish historian.)
anyhoo, back to what I was saying. abortion can never be one because the three definitions of sacraments are "perceptible signs... [that] make present efficaciously the grace that they signify", "efficacious signs of grace... by which divine life is dispensed to us", and "visible sign[s] of the hidden reality of salvation".
baptism initiates us into the Body of Christ(= the Church).
confession is all about forgiveness and returning.
the Eucharist, which is the source and summit of everything (being Jesus Himself), is glaringly obvious.
confirmation is an outpouring of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the final sacrament of initiation, and fortification as an independent fighter in the Church Militant.
matrimony figures the unity and creativity of the Trinity, and mirrors the relationship between God and man.
holy orders puts a man "in persona Christi" (in the person of Christ), and is Christ's physical representative (but oh so much more) on Earth, so to speak.
extreme unction is all about the afterlife.
abortion is all about death, destruction, violation, and everything contrary to nature and supernature. not so much with the grace and salvation thing. an abortionist is invading what is meant to be the safest place in earth and one way or another brutally slaughtering its inhabitant(s). they take their pick from burning the baby to death with salt, chopping Junior into little pieces and sucking out the bloody bits with a vacuum, scraping out the woman's uterus with what amounts to a sharpened latchhook, OR letting the kid think he's going to be born breech (feet first), but as soon as his body slides out and he's only a head away from breathing air, jabbing a hole in the base of his head with a pair of scissors, opening said scissors, literally sucking out his brain with a syringe, then crushing his unlucky little head with a pair of forceps and dragging it out. by the way, for all of these, his central nervous system is already fully functional. animal rights people howl about providing painkiller for little puppies and kittens which have to be aborted, and in a lot of places that happens, but nowhere does anyone numb the HUMAN baby against such atrocities.
NOT TO MENTION all the hell the woman goes through. and that is a topic which I cannot even BEGIN to do justice to. emotional, physical, mental, spiritual... everything gets screwed up. massive amounts of leftover hormones running around going "what the FUCK just happened??" torched nerve endings answering "ARMA-FUCKING-GEDDON, that's what!" ripped uterus. internal bleeding. punctured colon. saline burns. occasionally, scrambled intestines. infertility. skyrocketing increase of breast cancer risk. depression. promiscuity. cutting and suicide. rage problems. inability to be in a healthy relationship with a man. post-traumatic shock. bitterness towards future children, and/or other people's children. loss of faith. reactions run the gamut of bleeding to black, but all the proponents of abortion will tell you is sunshine and rainbows. their lies are happy as bubbles, fake as astroturf, and heinous as Jeffrey Dahmer. they tell thousands of hurting women, every day, to shut up and get lost, and that what they are feeling isn't real.
yeah. abortion is NOT going to be a sacrament even if men COULD get pregnant, because we'd still know that it can't ever qualify. just because men could become pregnant instead of women doesn't mean we'd all lose our minds. but if we're going to throw the book out the window and have women priests, then there's no book to tell us that abortion can't be a sacrament, and some bizarre crazy bunch of women could conceivably say that it was.
abortion is kinda like... the opposite of sex.
anyhoo deven wants me to get off the computer and go to sleep, so I guess this is the end. for now.
=^.^=