re: #146 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

I think, in a way, that’s how I feel about it all. I don’t hate the concepts themselves so much as the knuckle-draggers who are espousing them. It’s hard to take the “pro-life” arguments seriously when the other guy is holding up a picket sign screaming about how abortion doctors are going to Hell.

That and many of them don’t seem to give a damn about the welfare of mother and child post-birth. I had a secular upbringing but I was sympathetic to the parts of Catholicism that argued for helping out after birth. I was and to a degree still am drawn to the consistency of life ethic. The political pro life movement has always irked me the wrong way going back to the kids in the neighborhood I grew up in bragging about harassing people at abortion clinics. That always bothered me. Plus, their folks looked down on mine since my parents were live and let live when it came to religion. I remember hearing that I was baptized only due to my mom’s parents pressuring my parents. Of course, the weird thing is I have long felt culturally Catholic despite my growing skepticism to religion. I wear a St. Patrick medallion on my neck, think highly of my great uncle who was a priest, and cherish my godparents