If the Grand Inquisitor were alive today, he too would be puzzled that abortion is still an issue. After all of his hard work in vanquishing the freedom that Jesus brought in favor of the “freedom” on offer from the “elect,” why should we want to go back?

“Thou hast burdened man’s soul with anxieties hitherto unknown to him. Thirsting for human love freely given, seeking to enable man, seduced and charmed by Thee, to follow Thy path of his own free-will, instead of the old and wise law which held him in subjection, Thou hast given him the right henceforth to choose and freely decide what is good and bad for him, guided but by Thine image in his heart. But hast Thou never dreamt of the probability, nay, of the certainty, of that same man one day
rejected finally, and controverting even Thine image and Thy truth, once he would find himself laden with such a terrible
burden as freedom of choice? That a time would surely come when men would exclaim that Truth and Light cannot be in Thee, for no one could have left them in a greater perplexity and mental suffering than Thou has done, lading them with so many cares and insoluble problems. Thus, it is Thyself who hast laid the foundation for the destruction of Thine own kingdom and no one but Thou is to be blamed for it.”

The truth shall make you free, but it is also hard to accept. Real hard.

The reason abortion remains a flashpoint (and will remain so for another generation) is that it is built upon a lie: a fetus is not a human. If we deny the truth, we ultimately lose our freedom. Abortion and democracy, then, cannot peacefully co-exist.

The Grand Inquisitor understood this. As did Jesus.

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