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Entry: Arm the Unborn Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/arm_the_unborn#414 Post contents: J. Ball, Point well taken. The term, "social conservative", in current usage inspires more the thought of a God and Country, more a purely cultural, Evangelical vision of the phenomenon you cite than anything else. And it is in fact driven largely by popular perceptions. It seems to me that properly understood cultural conservatism is more an effect than a cause, more derived than conjured-up. It is the consequence of a lived faith and therefore never reducible to an ideology or a kind of activism. I feel as I do about citizenship and act as I do as a citizen because I am before everything a Catholic, that always and nothing less. I now resist the thought of myself as a social conservative. It presupposes a anachronistic vision of the division of nature and grace that simply does not exist. And here, of course, we find the vulnerability of neo-con, ReichsChurch Christianity. John Lowell Sent at: 2008 12 02