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August 15, 2004

What would you sacrifice?

If you didn't make it to church today or even if you did, be sure to read the good Rev. Sensing's excellent treatise on sacrificial offerings.

The lives of our children are so precious that it is impossible to imagine offering them up for anything except something of ultimate value, and even for ultimate value we accept only a statistical probability of sacrifice rather than certainty. Combat does not mean certain death: even at Iwo Jima most Marines survived.

But I have a heretical question: is this inability or unwillingness to sacrifice our children with certainty mean that we are morally deficient? Is there anything we treasure so absolutely that we would with certainty part with even our most beloved ones to preserve it?

Posted by Deb at August 15, 2004 08:09 AM