Pro-Life Wizard
Once upon a time a pious pro-life Wizard
got to thinking; is God pro-life? Or pro-choice? He noticed that the world has
freedom of the will, but not immortality; so the world seems to be more
pro-choice than pro-life. What is God’s role in this?
The Wizard investigated. He called
up an Angel and a Demon. The Angel said, “Foolish mortal, there’s no such thing
as a pro-lifer”. The Demon promised “a new world order of moral clarity and a
free lunch”. So lo and behold, God’s pro-choice. The Wizard wondered; should I rebel?
But the other side offered a different bargain; a world with immortality but no
free will. Would such tyranny, however benevolent, be desirable? Or would it be
better to die?
Meanwhile, a fellow pro-lifer planned
vigilante justice. He told the Wizard, “The women who abort are murderesses,
they must be executed, I have organized and armed a squad, we will take action
at such-and-such a time and such-and-such a place.”
The Wizard heard him out, went home,
and thought it over. Then he called the cops, to warn them. When he hung up the phone, he
noticed that his hand had a tiny little tremor. Wizardly, he intuited the
cause: Parkinson’s. The tremor will slowly worsen over the decades; eventually
it will kill him.
But the wizard smiled. “That’s it?”
he said to the air. “That’s the worst you can do?” And he laughed.
Moral: Live free and die.
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