Radical idea
I have to admit
it: the idea of a pro-life tax strike is not catching on like wildfire.
This is no surprise. 5 months ago, shortly after launchingProLifeStrike
.org, I offered
my opinion that it would be a small but committed few who
would dare to cross such a cultural and legal line. For most folks, it
just sounds too risky, too radical. There's much more company and much
more comfort in the middle of the road.
It has ever been thus. The Lord of Hosts seems to be OK with this. In fact, He seems to prefer a ragtag remnant, a small motley collection of unqualified and poorly equipped fools. See Judges 7:2-7 for just one example.
Yet I remain puzzled that the idea should be thought so unusual. All we desire is to refrain from paying for the abortion holocaust, to abstain from the slaughter of the innocents. We desire to avoid murdering the helpless with our pocketbooks. This makes us odd?
Labels: abortion, boycott, idea, middle of the road, pro-life, radical, strike, tax
posted by Jerry at
9:14 AM
2 Comments:
"Radical" is an interesting word. From the Latin radix which means root. For example, radicate means to root, or plant deeply. So, while "radical" is often used to mean "extreme", it can also mean "fundamental", or pertaining to the root of the matter.
Thank you for this insight. I am aware of this etymology, but failed to make mention of it in the post. Perhaps I ought to have done so, as it is an important point.
I find your use of the word "fundamental" similarly interesting. "Fundamentalism" has also now come to connote "extremism", rather than its original sense of simply getting back to basics. Let us embrace the original meaning of both "radical" and "fundamental", and so be unashamed to wear either moniker. Let us embrace extremism only when our fundamental, root principles demand it.
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