You see this all the time in nature. Facts of life that are not argued over. Not because everybody agrees on them, but simply because they exist and simply don1t make sense. Most people pass these facts by. But this is where the basis of the "Bare Naked Thoughts" theory comes in.
Here's an interesting story. Today I was walking home from school, looking at the picture of my ultrasound and a couple of fliers handed to me by some abortion protesters (next chapter), when I saw something flittering on the ground. I couldn't tell what it was at first... most people would have percepted it as a leaf. Upon a closer glance, I saw it was a moth. A moth struggling to get up and fly, probably to get off the hot cement. I first walked by it, thinking nothing of it. I then thought better of it... went back, and helped the poor thing crawl onto the picture of the disfigured baby and gently set it back on some cool grass by the sidewalk.
Was that right? Would most people do this? I simply don't think I could have lived with myself if I left that poor moth to die. I1ve always been a true Christian believer (at least I like to think of myself that way). I stopped killing ants and spiders a while ago because I was violating the commandment "Thou shalt not kill". Of course, if you think about it, people kill God's creatures all the time. If we walk on our carpet or hard wood floor, we're stomping on all the little living dust microbes living there. If we scratch ourselves, we1re killing the skin cells on our body. Sometimes I'm not sure the limits of this commandment. If the Bible happened to say "Thou shalt not kill thy brother or thy sister of thy same flesh", then I'd understand better. But it doesn't. So I don't.
The moral of the story? One more moth will live another day because of me. And that makes me feel pretty darn good about myself.
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