This counts as a quibble, too, I suppose. "Anti-abortionists are not only lacking in compassion, they're violent", is a frequent theme in the
MSM and in Entertainment. One of my favourite shows,
Law and Order, gives a fascinating view into the
world view of the educated,
secular elite that produces so much of our information and entertainment.
The only remotely sympathetic characters that are explicitly religious on these shows are "cool", "hip" priests and nuns, who couldn't inspire religious fervour in
anyone, much less
real Christians. Just the sort of religious people the elite finds tolerable. All other characters with religious convictions are:
1. neurotic,
2. murderous,
3. unpleasantly, even inhumanly, cold,
4. stupid or ignorant, or
5. some combination of the above
Which tells me that the people producing the shows have never met, or at least never recognized, a
well-adjusted,
law-abiding,
compassionate,
intelligent and well-educated Christian. (Muslims generally get a pass from L&O, but that's another story.) From which lack of experience they must conclude that such people don't exist or are very rare.
So, associating anti-abortionism with religious beliefs, they project these characteristics onto the
appropriate characters. And burning, bombings, and murders are the result.
And everybody knows that a) anti-abortionists are
violent and that, b) they burn and bomb abortion
clinics.
Or do they?
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