You can see how my mind wanders down paths by reading my posts on a day like today.
I don't wake up with a plan; I write what occurs to me at any given moment, because that is the freedom being a blogger gives me. I am super grateful that Ed gives me that opportunity, and twice as grateful to my readers for supporting our work.
Well, I began the day writing about the DSA and its candidates, and now I have turned to ruminating on the Culture of Death that has taken over the West.
The Culture of Death has its intellectual roots in the rejection of God, which is why the most murderous regimes in world history have been communist, being explicitly atheistic.
That's not to say that atheists are by definition amoral; rather, the rejection of the Divine in at least some form, whether Christian or another religious tradition, unmoors us from outside moral standards almost inevitably leads to defining the Good in terms of desire, and often, though not always, physical comfort and pleasure. There are variations, where there is a God-substitute such as The State or the Volk, but even there materialism usually dominates, and when it doesn't, some celebration of Death is involved. (Think Mussolini, who combined the State, the united community, and War as spiritual substitutes for God.)
In most Western countries, the rejection of God means that pleasure and comfort become moral substitutes. The DINK movement is about celebrating consumption; alphabet ideology is about reworking nature to gain self-realization; and the Culture of Death, in abortion and MAiD, is about celebrating pleasure and avoiding struggle.
Life itself becomes a commodity, to be manipulated, traded, enjoyed until it is no longer enjoyable, and when it is no longer cherished or enjoyed, disposed of.
This is the moment for Texas authorities to stand their ground.
— Eithan Haim MD (@EithanDHaimMD) August 11, 2026
A California couple demanded the surrogate mother abort the baby, Gabriel, after he was diagnosed with a treatable heart condition, HLHS.
The surrogate mother refused - she offered to adopt and raise the baby.… https://t.co/EriYHUO92g
This is the moment for Texas authorities to stand their ground.
A California couple demanded the surrogate mother abort the baby, Gabriel, after he was diagnosed with a treatable heart condition, HLHS.
The surrogate mother refused - she offered to adopt and raise the baby. They are now at UTSW in Dallas, which has a near 100% success rate for treating this type of heart condition.
Despite this, the parents are demanding the surrogate give the baby to them in California after Gabriel is born.
What will they do with that baby? "Palliative care."
This is just a euphemism for murder, infanticide - because they see baby Gabriel as material product they bought and incubated in a peasant woman, there is no problem for them to throw it out in the garbage.
But the Texas AG's Office cannot let that happen because Gabriel is not a piece of trash but a baby boy. Now is the moment for them to stand stand their ground - ignore anything a California Judge mandates, resist any internal resistance from Texas liberals, compel the cowards at UTSW to act against the rot that has overcome their souls.
Send the Texas Rangers, call up the local police, gather the citizens. Anything to prevent Gabriel from being stolen by the baby killers in California.
This can be seen easily enough in the commodification of babies, who are bought, sold, treated as chattel, or adopted out to perverted freaks to prove an ideological point.
The children are nothing but objects to be used and enjoyed — or not enjoyed, and therefore disposed of. The Biden policy of handing unaccompanied minors to be trafficked for sex or labor was a variation of this same attitude, but there are few examples so stark as the surrogacy industry.
Like so many things found on a slippery slope, the original justification for surrogacy was the rare instances of people who had the ability to fertilize eggs with sperm, each of which came from a couple, but for some reason the woman could not carry the fetus to term.
We all, quite naturally, feel empathy for such couples, and surrogacy seems a reasonable solution with few downsides, but of course that is an illusion, as so often humanistic ideas are. Playing God appears to be addictive, and now we have this: disposable babies.
Is your baby not to your liking? Kill it. It is the natural endpoint. If you can buy and sell people as an accessory to your lives, why should you be saddled with a product you are unhappy with?
When God is dead, everything is permitted.
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