Comments on: Massacre of the Innocents http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2013/01/22/massacre-of-the-innocents/ The Christianity Stack Exchange Blog Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: Joseph Weissman http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2013/01/22/massacre-of-the-innocents/#comment-8042 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:35:34 +0000 http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/?p=1797#comment-8042 Really not trying to stir the pot here, by the way! Just my immediate reflections on the post. Thanks for keeping this excellent blog going.

]]> By: Joseph Weissman http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2013/01/22/massacre-of-the-innocents/#comment-8041 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:33:07 +0000 http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/?p=1797#comment-8041 Rachel is certainly weeping.

Just in passing, there’s been a mass shooting every day since Newtown.

I feel a little disconcerted about this post, honestly. I don’t like this game where we pretend to be “above politics” and then make huge sweeping (pious!) equivalencies between:

  • women’s reproductive health and autonomy…
  • and mowing down the innocent in cold blood.

It’s maybe even more disconcerting to me that we’re even having this debate again AT ALL in 2013.

It feels about as odd as the fact that we’re having debates about rape and torture. I, for one, would want to live in a society where rape and torture are “dogmatically” rejected as wrong — where we aren’t asked to “analyze” the “complexity” of these acts.

I think that this sort of “analysis” is vulgar, and tends to obscenely neutralize ethical lapses.

If anything is driving us towards a dangerous ethical vacuum, it’s trying to get us to “think” about oppression, torture, rape, violence, etc., in some “wider” context where they’re rendered sensible and legible. This is a recipe for acceleration into the ethical vacuum.

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