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Some cultures simply devalue all human life, gradually, as theological death cultures like Hinduism and animism are perpetuated over many generations. But even Christian culture can drop into a death spiral when the natural cherishing of family relationships disintegrates, as it did in America with the establishment of age-segregated public school environments in the 1940s, and the fornication/abortion culture of the 1970s.
Siblings lost the foundations of brotherly love. Husbands began to mistreat, abuse or neglect their wives. But the most dreadful symptom of astorgos, the absence of natural affection, is maternal selfishness, leading to radical disregard for the life or health of an unborn child. Infanticide has been a cultural norm in post-Christian America for a half century; and now comes a demand for yet another cultural expression of astorgos.
This is a political demand from the trans world of trans women. They are determined to defy their birth-assigned gender. They want to “identify” as men. But, further, they want to defy God’s Creation by conceiving a child “as a man,” carrying a child “as a man,” and then giving birth and “chest-feeding” the child to prove that “men can get pregnant.”
In order to make this political charade work biologically, a pregnant woman must experiment with high dosages of testosterone to maintain her beard and other superficial traits which make her look like “a pregnant man.”
So what happens to the well-being of a child whose mother is dosing male hormones during pregnancy?
Presently, testosterone is classified as a teratogenic, US FDA pregnancy category X drug, suggesting it can induce birth defects. It is labeled as such because “studies in pregnant women have demonstrated a risk to the fetus, and/or human or animal studies have shown fetal abnormalities; risks of the drug outweigh the potential benefits.”
The attached article is a political diatribe posing as a medical paper. In it the authors make much of the mental health of mothers who insist they look like males to “deal” with life. The authors are putting political pressure on the medical establishment to put the “mental health” of the political women high above the well-being of unborn children. Here is the absence of natural affection.
You can see its Biblical context in Romans_1:31 and 2 Timothy 3:3.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321523000811?via%3Dihub
"In the personal identification documents of subjects of the Russian Empire, there was not a column [for] nationality—there was none. In the Soviet passport there was, but in the Russian one—there was not. But what was there? “Religious faith.” There was a common value, a religious value, association with Eastern Christian religion, with Orthodoxy… There were other values, but this was the defining one: which values do you share?
"That’s why, even today, it doesn't matter to us whether a person is from the east, west, south, or north. If they share our values, they’re one of us."
-- Vladimir Putin
"What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community… Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed…. That jihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa – take over the whole country or most of several countries – is dangerous.
"It's very dangerous for the national security of the United States let alone the security of the poor people who are there – Christians or Muslims or whoever they are… [The goal of these jihadist groups is] eliminating Christian communities… [Muslims are] given a choice: ‘either join us or you too will face killing and annihilation.’ Christians, of course, are not going to be asked to join. Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed."
-- Former U.S. diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez
Charlie was a hard-working and very talented man, but he worked hard at what? He was a campus evangelist and a podcaster. He had thrown himself into the mission of talking about doctrine and comprehensive worldview with nineteen-year-olds. Doing that, he became such a cultural force that he was shot and killed by the darkness we are up against. And at the memorial service for this campus evangelist, you had the president’s cabinet sitting in the front row, the secretary of state declaring the gospel, the vice-president of the United States walking us through the Nicene Creed, numerous faithful Christians pointing the way to Jesus Christ, the president himself present and speaking, a beautiful widow speaking her beautiful words, and with thousands upon thousands in the stadium, and a hundred million people watching around the globe.
-- Doug Wilson
