tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1017397708633883699.post9144357928195315312..comments2023-06-17T07:55:40.112-04:00Comments on Early Morning Musings: Amazing GraceChristiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14864160931635627468noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1017397708633883699.post-8703424713727876232007-12-04T07:34:00.000-05:002007-12-04T07:34:00.000-05:00I loved that movie too. I often wonder about the ...I loved that movie too. I often wonder about the relationship between individuals like William Wilberforce vs. the historical conditions that allowed abolition to happen. As long as Britain's economy was dependent on slavery, moral persuasion wasn't going to work - but the reverse isn't necessarily true: if it were not for Wilberforce, Britain might have continued to be a slave-owning nation Beahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15957626443087438904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1017397708633883699.post-81808566341632136842007-12-01T21:23:00.000-05:002007-12-01T21:23:00.000-05:00Amazing Grace is a terrific story. The comparison ...Amazing Grace is a terrific story. The comparison with abortion is a good one, and I think we already see attitudes about abortion shifting because of the advances in what we know, and the years of work the pro-life forces have put into encouraging women not to abort their babies.<BR/><BR/>I'm not very hopeful about changing the laws. But we are changing attitudes, and that's even more important.Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10198310770203906742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1017397708633883699.post-87468117154410020122007-11-30T06:58:00.000-05:002007-11-30T06:58:00.000-05:00Sounds like a great movie. Yeah, I wonder if we'd...Sounds like a great movie. Yeah, I wonder if we'd had the medical technology we have today back in the Roe v. Wade days, if abortion would have been legalized.<BR/>My son used to love 24, and went through a long spell of never missing an episode. I watched it a few times, but it's way too intense for me. I was on edge the entire time I watched :)Ninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468768728036792454noreply@blogger.com