The Writing on the Belly (2): And the winner is...
My last post referred to the referendum on abortion held here in Portugal yesterday. As a follow-up to that, here are the results (approx.): 60% in favor of decriminalizing abortion on request in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy vs. 40% opposed. The majority of registered voters didn't even vote, though. Since more than 50% of registered voters had to vote to make the referendum binding, the 56% voter abstention rate was enough to not require that the current law be changed.
BUT...the Socialist government is going to pick up the ball and run with it, anyway. The new rules are expected to be implemented by or in 2008. Which serves to illustrate the point I tried to make in the last posting: our sinful nature leads us to find a way to do what we want to do, no matter how dire the consequences and even when we know better. (Witness the habit of smoking tobacco in the face of medical and government warnings.)
In the same line, an article in yesterday's local newspaper reported on one of the groups that will participate in the Carnival (Mardi Gras) procession this Saturday in Funchal. Their theme: "Let's Have Fun in this Hell". Among the costumed figures in the group will be a transvestite "Devil", and the colors chosen by the group are supposedly the colors of sin: red, purple, and black. On the floats, quotations from the Bible mixed with popular sayings will appear on banners.
"If sin weren't so seductive, tempting and beautiful...it would never be sin and we would never go to Hell," group leaders say. The underlying thought is that "no man, no matter what his age, can resist a pretty woman," and to make the point, there will be at least one topless woman in their presentation, according to the article.
How sad it is to see people willfully marching into the face of destruction. "...because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved, ...for this cause, God shall send them a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie; That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thess. 2:10-12.
BUT...the Socialist government is going to pick up the ball and run with it, anyway. The new rules are expected to be implemented by or in 2008. Which serves to illustrate the point I tried to make in the last posting: our sinful nature leads us to find a way to do what we want to do, no matter how dire the consequences and even when we know better. (Witness the habit of smoking tobacco in the face of medical and government warnings.)
In the same line, an article in yesterday's local newspaper reported on one of the groups that will participate in the Carnival (Mardi Gras) procession this Saturday in Funchal. Their theme: "Let's Have Fun in this Hell". Among the costumed figures in the group will be a transvestite "Devil", and the colors chosen by the group are supposedly the colors of sin: red, purple, and black. On the floats, quotations from the Bible mixed with popular sayings will appear on banners.
"If sin weren't so seductive, tempting and beautiful...it would never be sin and we would never go to Hell," group leaders say. The underlying thought is that "no man, no matter what his age, can resist a pretty woman," and to make the point, there will be at least one topless woman in their presentation, according to the article.
How sad it is to see people willfully marching into the face of destruction. "...because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved, ...for this cause, God shall send them a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie; That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thess. 2:10-12.
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