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"That's critical, because another aspect of social reform that we identified was massive societal denial among people complicit in injustice or complacent in response to the injustice.

I once heard a debate between John Rankin of The Rankin File and Kate Michelman. John asked Kate if she knew when a fetus became a human being. She answered that she did not, and that she did not want to know because she didn't want to be in the business of deciding that for someone else.

She preferred a position in ignorance because she was afraid of knowledge. She was afraid of what the truth would do to her position, so she determined not to ask the question.

It's like Don Quixote making a helmet out of cardboard and tinfoil. After he made the helmet he tested it by striking it with his sword. It fell to pieces. Quixote's solution? He made another just like the first, but didn't strike it with his sword.

John 3:19 (NIV)

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

Shalom.

John 3:19 (NIV) This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

Thanks.....great story and wonderful scripture

I once heard a debate between John Rankin of The Rankin File and Kate Michelman. John asked Kate if she knew when a fetus became a human being. She answered that she did not, and that she did not want to know because she didn't want to be in the business of deciding that for someone else.

Michelman can refuse to think about the timing, but she might as well stick her head in the sand. Her position reminds me of the position taken by a woman who ran a problem-solving column in our local paper.

Someone wrote her and asked how putting larger tires on his car would affect his speedometer. He wondered if his speedometer would show his speed to be slower than it really was, or if his speedometer would show his speed as faster than it really was, or if it would still register the actual speed.

Various people replied with their opinions and explanations. Since the opinions contradicted one another, the woman who wrote the column decided that there was no correct answer.In effect, she made it sound as though believing all answers are equally correct, could make them all equally correct. She didn't bother to investigate further to see which answer was right.

In reality there IS a correct answer for what will happen to that man's speedometer.