School shootings are horrible and tragic. There have been so many in the past few years. The first one I recall hearing about as a youth was the one in Columbine, Colorado. It shocked and grieved the nation, and has not been forgotten. It should not be forgotten. Almost 19 years later today, when I googled the word Columbine in making this post, the first three suggestions that I was given to go with that word were shooter, death toll, and victim.
There have been many measures taken and arguments made since that tragic day to endeavor to oppose, stop, inhibit, and prevent school shootings. Some have been more effective than others. Some have been righteous and reasonable and just. Others have not.
But still shootings have continued to happen. One source claims that there have been some 50 mass murders or attempted mass murders at a schools since Columbine.1
As I pondered this last horrific act in Florida, I was struck with a new innovative way to deal with those committing the crisis. Maybe, just maybe, this would affect the frequency that seems to be escalating with school shootings.
I mean, we know now that these attacks at schools are going to happen. Even though it is illegal, there will always be someone who will want to do it anyway—the danger, the fame, and the thought of defying the law seems to make it that much more appealing to a segment of our culture. So, maybe our society should try another ploy. Maybe we should legalize school shootings.
Some reasoning...
1. The shooter is a victim too. Many only commit this crime because they are confused, feel pressured by the voices in their head, feel rejected by their peers, or are desperate for attention. We don't know what some of these individuals have experienced or the circumstances that would bring them to such a decision, so we really shouldn't judge them. Some have mental issues and nearly all of them have been taught (by their own educational institutions) that there is no real basis for right and wrong—we are all merely evolved animals, simply bi-pedal protoplasm, and there is no purpose in life nor any Judge to face after this life is over. Our society has thus made the case that there is no absolute truth and therefore can not consistently condemn any act as wrong. We have taught our children to do what they feel like doing anyway, therefore, these "deranged" individuals are victims as well, and really shouldn't be prosecuted.
If school shootings become legal*, these shooters can act consistently with what they have been taught, and not be shamed or feel guilty about their actions. They won't have to hide what they are planning to do, and it will give others more chances to talk with them and maybe change their mind without slurring the ethics of their actions. After all, it is a choice they have and we shouldn't keep people from their right to choose.
2. Illegal shootings are dangerous.
Shooters today are doing this at great risk to themselves. Think about what they have to worry about:
—conceal/carry people possibly being nearby.
—the likelihood that someone may call the police.
—the odds that they may be hurt themselves.
The very real fact in school shootings, as in other public square shootings, is that, more often than not, the school shooter ends up dead himself. School shootings need to be made more safe...for the shooter.
If school shootings become legal, these shooters will be so much more likely to survive. They won't have to worry about the police or conceal and carry individuals. And after all safety is our goal, right? I mean, once school shootings become protected, society will not want to go back to when shooters had to take such risks. And think of the money that will be saved when government schools won't have to pay for security systems, guards, etc.
3. The notoriety factor is a thing.
Some people want the fame of being a rebel against authority—of being the subject of news reports, twitter feeds, and conversations—even if they die before getting a chance to read the blazing reports. They feel they left a mark on society. That they got even. They want to have the same flash as other shooters before them, thus the "copycat syndrome" takes effect.
If school shootings become legal, well, there goes the acclaim, the excitement of rebelling, the feeling of exhilaration over taking on the government. It will become a mundane, boring thing to murder the innocent sitting in the lunchroom. It will lose its appeal for many. It will become less common.
4. The power of regulation.
When a thing becomes permitted by the government, it comes somewhat under control of said government. The state has a say in how an act can be committed. And our government has shown a great talent in making rules and restrictions. This will only curb and lessen the amounts of school shootings, and minimize the devastation even further.
If school shootings become legal, it will provide an avenue to regulate and control school shooting in so many ways. I think it very likely that a pro-school safety movement will arise, providing much legislation and work to create a culture of change. They will most likely get support from concerned citizens, including the religious population, to oppose school shootings in this way.
Here are a few of the regulations that could be made that feasibly could be passed without violating the shooter's right to choose (the possibilities are endless):
—A person must apply for a school shooting license and attain certain level of training in order to perform a shooting. If there has to be school shootings, let us ensure that they are done by a licensed professional.
—Enact a school shooting tax, and put it towards government education. If they have to pay to commit the shooting, it will decrease how many will pursue that path.
—Establish a 24 hour waiting period after they have determined to carry out the act. If they have to think about it for a day, some will choose not to do it. How could anyone be against such a bill? It will prevent impulsive shootings. It will give precedent, and maybe in a decade or so, the waiting period would be pushed to a 72 hour wait.
—Require minor shooters to have written parental permission. This should be a no-brainer.
—Create education bills that will be effective to let the shooter know that those they plan to kill are human as well—that they are breathing, heart beating individuals. They will be informed at what ages students are likely to have learned to tie their shoes, to be able to whistle or read, diagram a sentence, or solve a trigonometry problem. This will demonstrate how like themselves they are. This will hopefully establish their compassion toward those they want to get rid of, and may help a shooter to reconsider and turn them away from such a hideous act. After such education, these troubled shooters may even become pro-school safety themselves.
—Establish a bill to ban the shooting of those who will be graduating this year from college or university since they are almost out of school as fully developed members of the government trained society. Then maybe a bill that protects all college students, since we can prove that they are not as dependent as those in high school (well maybe not, but this may encourage more to be independent and self supporting). A win-win in anyone's book. At least those who have graduated are, on the average, more viable members of society than grade-schoolers. And as college students can go to the polls, this will likely have abundant voter support. Some may say that this is not fair to younger students, but hey, if it saves one life it must be good. We will assure any nay-sayers that at a later date those who are younger (and just as valuable, of course) will also be protected by law. Victim age restriction will secure saved lives.
—Procedure rules are a must. Here are a few ideas:
a. A bill that bans the use of bombs since that weapon of choice is much more messy, could endanger the shooter himself, or could kill even neighbors and bystanders in the public square. Bombs will also cause more damage to structures, costing the state more money. Voters will see the virtue in not further affecting their wallets.
b. A bill requiring (or at least be highly recommending) shooters to wear protective body armor. Some students will seek to defend themselves and safety to the shooter should be chief in our concern, for we are compassionate. Of course, as it becomes illegal to shoot in colleges, and then in the high school (maybe 15 years into this kind of legislation), the instance of fighting back will become less common. Come to think of it, the fact that a college student may fight back with more gusto than those who are younger would provide more evidence of their viability, strengthening the case to ban all college shootings.
c. Anesthetization requirements could be a powerful measure. Making it a rule that the students be chloroformed, or numbed in someway before being shot, will further establish the fact that school shootings are painful, and might even turn a shooter away from doing it. If there is going to be a school shooting (and we have established that this is a fact), isn't it better to at least cut down on the pain the students have to undergo while we try to stop it all together?
Finally, someday, there may be a time when school shootings become only a very occasional occurrence, because of the hassle of the red tape required.
The slogan for these measure could be something like:
"School shooting—Safe, Legal, and Rare."
[Note: This post is not to be construed as an actual justified plan, nor is it meant to be disrespectful or unfeeling towards those affected by school shootings. It is only simply applying some of the widely accepted thinking and tactics used by prochoicers and prolifers in the area of abortion—another mass homicide being enacted daily on innocent victims. If we would be horrified at such reasoning and strategy against school shootings, should we not be just as appalled at the use of such reasoning for the murder of the preborn—an even greater epidemic—a more systemic slaughter of fellow human beings? We need to repent of ageism, the failure to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, and the neglect of justice and equity in our opposition of evil.]
Inequity is Iniquity. Let us not be hypocrites.
Consider the words of God to those who fail to justly oppose evil (Psalm 82:2-5)...
"How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah."
"Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy."
"Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked."
"They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course."
*the use of the word "legal" in this post is meant to mean government sanctioned. I do NOT consider school shootings to be lawful, whatever our society deems permissible. Concerning this post, I echo the words of Paul, who said "I speak as a fool" to show the error of this folly.
I am taking the route laid out by God, in Proverbs 26:4-5, the don't answer/answer method.
:4 "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him."
:5 "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit."
I do not accept the compromised thinking of those who oppose the evil in an unjust manner, but I do use the compromised thinking to illustrate the error of that thinking in order to help those who have accepted the compromised position without carefully weighing out the question according to the truth and justice of the God of the Bible.
It should be manifest that...
Abortion is murder of the preborn in the same way that shooting students is murder of the born.
It is not just to regulate murdering humans.
Abortion must be abolished.
1 ABCNews http://abcnews.go.com/US/school-shootings-columbine-numbers/story?id=36833245
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Saturday, February 17, 2018
A Population Parallel - Wake UP, MISSOURI! The Abortion Holocaust is Greater Than We Think.
Do we really understand the extent of the murders by abortion?
Over three thousand babies are murdered EVERY DAY in our nation.
I want to try to hit that number home, by making "Population Parallels", using cities and towns in the "Show Me" State.
Picture the murder of the born population of Buckner (3,076) happening EVERY DAY!
The populations of Peculiar (4,608) and Oregon (857) EVERY 2 DAYS!
And then the populations of
And the murder of the populations of
If the first month was January, that would still leave enough time to kill off the populations of
Independence (116,130),
and Springfield (159,498) could be totally gone BY JULY.
And that is just the number of reported abortions.
And that is just the number of reported abortions.
If this seems horrific to you, imagine the indignation of the all knowing God of heaven,
Leviticus 20:1-5
WAKE UP, MISSOURI! WAKE UP, CHURCH!
Let us NOT hide our eyes!
If this post agitates your conscience, and you desire to do something practical to oppose the evil slaughter done to your preborn neighbors who are murdered at the rate of TWO EVERY MINUTE, please contact me.
Abortion must be abolished.
The citizens of Missouri need to rise up and establish justice and equity, no matter what the rest of the nation does.
(Using a 2010 census as source for population numbers http://www.togetherweteach.com/TWTIC/uscityinfo/25mo/25mo.htm)
Over three thousand babies are murdered EVERY DAY in our nation.
I want to try to hit that number home, by making "Population Parallels", using cities and towns in the "Show Me" State.
Picture the murder of the born population of Buckner (3,076) happening EVERY DAY!
Or more than that of the combined citizens of Amsterdam (242), Truesdale (732), Grant City (859), Mineral Point (351), and Sheldon (543) EVERY DAY.
The populations of Peculiar (4,608) and Oregon (857) EVERY 2 DAYS!
The population of Pleasant Hill (8,113) EVERY 3 DAYS!
The populations of Carl Junction (7,445) and Carthage (14,378) EVERY WEEK!
The population of Jefferson City (43,079) EVERY TWO WEEKS!
The population of Jefferson City (43,079) EVERY TWO WEEKS!
The population of Lee's Summit (91,364) EVERY MONTH!
Think of it---the current amount of children that are brutally sacrificed to the god of Self in our country is like having the populations of
Think of it---the current amount of children that are brutally sacrificed to the god of Self in our country is like having the populations of
Kirkwood (27,540),
Chesterfield (47,484),
Neosho (11,835), and
Concordia (2,450) murdered in ONE MONTH.
And then the populations of
Hannibal (17,916),
Joplin (50,150),
Maryville (11,972), and
Chillicothe (9,515) the NEXT MONTH.
Followed by the murder of the populations of
Blue Springs (52,575),
Grandview (24,475), and
Grain Valley (12,854) the THIRD MONTH.
And the murder of the populations of
Liberty (29,149),
North Kansas City (4,208), and
Gladstone (25,410), with
Belton (23,116) and Harrisonville (10,019) thrown in the the FOURTH MONTH.
If the first month was January, that would still leave enough time to kill off the populations of
Kansas City (459,787),
St. Joseph (76,780),
Raytown (29,526),
Webb City (10,996)
and Columbia (108,500) BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR!
and Columbia (108,500) BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR!
And the NEXT YEAR,
St. Louis (319,204),Independence (116,130),
and Springfield (159,498) could be totally gone BY JULY.
And that is just the number of reported abortions.
If the murders of the preborn across our nation were actually murders of the born in the state of Missouri, the ENTIRE STATE POPULATION (5,988,927 people) would be gone in 6 short years.
The "Show Me" State COMPLETELY empty.
And that is just the number of reported abortions.
Wake UP, citizens of Missouri!!!
The Abortion Holocaust is Greater Than You Think.
If this seems horrific to you, imagine the indignation of the all knowing God of heaven,
Who is HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!
Who has made these precious babies in His image!
Who declares them to be His heritage and a blessing!
Who sees their slaughter in the secret places!
Who hears the cry of their innocent blood!
Who commands US to open OUR mouths for those who have no voice, for those who are being slaughtered!
Who commands US to warn the wicked and rescue the weak!
Who will bring judgment to a people that allows the shedding of innocent blood to happen in their communities without seeking justice!
Leviticus 20:1-5
:1 "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,"
:2 "Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones."
:3 "And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name."
:4 "And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:"
:5 "Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people."
WAKE UP, MISSOURI! WAKE UP, CHURCH!
Let us NOT hide our eyes!
Let us NOT be silent NOR absent when they are being slain!
Let us plead for justice and call for truth!
May our communities awaken and repent of our apathy toward culture of child sacrifice that is murdering our neighbors!
If this post agitates your conscience, and you desire to do something practical to oppose the evil slaughter done to your preborn neighbors who are murdered at the rate of TWO EVERY MINUTE, please contact me.
Abortion must be abolished.
The citizens of Missouri need to rise up and establish justice and equity, no matter what the rest of the nation does.
(Using a 2010 census as source for population numbers http://www.togetherweteach.com/TWTIC/uscityinfo/25mo/25mo.htm)
Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist
Today marks two hundred and one years since the birth of Frederick Douglass, a runaway slave, who became an abolitionist, orator, author, editor, statesman, and preacher of the Gospel (as well as becoming the most photographed American of the 19th century). This bold Christian man became renowned as the "Lion of Abolition."
The following are some quotes of his, which I believe may be beneficial to those seeking to abolish the evil of child sacrifice in our day. Every age has its evils. Every age has its abolitionists. Let us reflect on his words.
On Prayer & Action - “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
On the REAL Problem, or Question - “There is no
negro problem. The problem is whether
the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough to
live up to their own Constitution.”
On Free Speech - “To suppress
free speech is a double wrong. It
violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
On the effect upon his life after his Salvation - “I loved all mankind, slaveholders included, though I hated slavery more than ever.”
On true Christianity - “I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial
Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women
whipping, cradle plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this
land.”
On Being a Nation's True Friend - “I am one of those who think the best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins – and he, her worst enemy, who, under the specious and popular garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate, and defend them.” April 15, 1846
On Reactions to Shining Light on Wrong - “Men do not love
those who remind them of their sins.”
On National Security - “The life of the
nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
On Justice and Peace in Society - "Where there is no justice, there is no peace."
On Demanding Justice - “If there is no
struggle, there is no progress. Power
concedes nothing without a demand. It
never did and it never will. Without a
struggle, there can be no progress. It
is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the
earthquake.”
On Agitation - “Those who
profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops
without plowing up the ground.”
On the Fear of Man - “I prefer to be
true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather
than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
On Tolerance and Tyranny - “Find out what
any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the
injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
On Standing Alone - “One and God make a majority.”
On his One Political Idea - "I have one great political idea...That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, 'Righteousness exalteth a nation; sin is a reproach to any people' [Proverbs 14:34]...This constitutes my politics -- the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics...I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people."
O, FOR CHRISTIANS TO AWAKEN TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, FIRED WITH ZEAL FROM FAITH IN THE SCRIPTURES, AND CONSTRAINED BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST!
O, FOR HEROES TO RISE TODAY, AND SPEAK WITH THE FACES OF LIONS!
Abortion must be abolished.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
IGNORE ROE - DEFY ROE: The Time to do Justly is Always NOW
LET IT BE UNDERSTOOD...
Roe v Wade was an unrighteous decree, an iniquitous opinion, which perverted justice and equity,
violating the Constitution and the Higher Law of God. It must be DEFIED and IGNORED.
Consider the following illustration:
If the Supreme Court gave an opinion today that since 10 years olds have not gone through puberty, and thus are not fully developed human beings, ESPECIALLY if they are still living inside own's home, dependent upon one, THEY MAY BE ABORTED...
It would be the DUTY of every state, governor, legislator, every lesser magistrate, to defy such an egregious opinion. They would have to say,
"That is murder. That is evil and unjust. The Supreme Court has NO authority to say that murder is okay. We refuse to permit and protect murder in our jurisdiction. Instead, we will provide equal protection for our people here from being murdered. We DEFY that opinion, and will IGNORE it."
It should not have to be said here that
PREBIRTH MURDER IS JUST AS WRONG AS PREPUBERTY MURDER.
But the states failed to do this when Roe was handed down, when the Supreme Court gave THAT arbitrary and egregious opinion. Our magistrates and our society capitulated and allowed murder in our midst.
We suffered child sacrifice to flourish, and over 61 million children have suffered slaughter under "color of law".
We are become ageists. To allow for the murder of someone because they are
-not a certain age yet
-not fully developed
-not as independent as you
-are living in a particular locale
-don't look like you
is WICKEDNESS. That is AGEISM.
And WE allowed it.
Americas allowed it.
Christians in America allowed it.
Churches allowed it.
Blood is on our hands (Isaiah 1,59; Ezekiel 3,33,22)
WE were SILENT when children were butchered.
WE were ABSENT from the battlefield for truth.
WE were NEGLIGENT in our duty as neighbors.
WE were DISOBEDIENT to God.
And even when we fought, even as we thought ourselves the champions of the preborn, WE often did not do so in a wholly JUST manner.
WE became guilty of
COMPROMISE
COMPLICITY
COWARDICE
COMPLACENCY
WE were deceived and believed lies.
WE became culpable with this holocaust before a holy God. And I am speaking of prolifers here.
We didn't bring the TRUTH into full conflict with this work of darkness. We made war with injustice and ageism, using unjust and ageist means.
We called on legislators to make laws that permitted Murder:
IF it happened before the baby was a certain age.
IF the baby had a criminal for a father (as in rape).
IF the baby's teenage mama had parental permission.
IF she had thought about it for 24 hours.
IF she was informed that her baby was alive.
IF it was not done with taxpayer money.
We did this. We were taught to do this. And we did this thinking we were standing for LIFE and TRUTH. But we were doing WRONG.
Now, not everything we did was wrong,
but what was wrong, WAS WRONG, and WE MUST RECOGNIZE AND RECKON WITH IT.
We must humbly REPENT. As individuals, as churches, as communities, as states, as a nation. Let us confess it before the Lord and do RIGHT.
WE NEED to cease to do evil and learn to do well.
WE NEED to stop following the multitude (including the Prolife multitude) to do evil and wrest judgment from the weak and the innocent.
WE NEED to call for justice and plead for truth.
WE NEED to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.
WE NEED prod our leaders to do justly and establish equity. They must be what they didn't at the start. The time to "do justly" is always NOW.
As Wesley Thomas says, "The Supreme Court is not the Supreme Being."
Don't DIEFY the Supreme Court, DEFY Roe v Wade
IGNORE ROE.
DEFY ROE.
Abortion must be ABOLISHED.
Roe v Wade was an unrighteous decree, an iniquitous opinion, which perverted justice and equity,
violating the Constitution and the Higher Law of God. It must be DEFIED and IGNORED.
Consider the following illustration:
If the Supreme Court gave an opinion today that since 10 years olds have not gone through puberty, and thus are not fully developed human beings, ESPECIALLY if they are still living inside own's home, dependent upon one, THEY MAY BE ABORTED...
It would be the DUTY of every state, governor, legislator, every lesser magistrate, to defy such an egregious opinion. They would have to say,
"That is murder. That is evil and unjust. The Supreme Court has NO authority to say that murder is okay. We refuse to permit and protect murder in our jurisdiction. Instead, we will provide equal protection for our people here from being murdered. We DEFY that opinion, and will IGNORE it."
It should not have to be said here that
PREBIRTH MURDER IS JUST AS WRONG AS PREPUBERTY MURDER.
But the states failed to do this when Roe was handed down, when the Supreme Court gave THAT arbitrary and egregious opinion. Our magistrates and our society capitulated and allowed murder in our midst.
We suffered child sacrifice to flourish, and over 61 million children have suffered slaughter under "color of law".
We are become ageists. To allow for the murder of someone because they are
-not a certain age yet
-not fully developed
-not as independent as you
-are living in a particular locale
-don't look like you
is WICKEDNESS. That is AGEISM.
And WE allowed it.
Americas allowed it.
Christians in America allowed it.
Churches allowed it.
Blood is on our hands (Isaiah 1,59; Ezekiel 3,33,22)
WE were SILENT when children were butchered.
WE were ABSENT from the battlefield for truth.
WE were NEGLIGENT in our duty as neighbors.
WE were DISOBEDIENT to God.
And even when we fought, even as we thought ourselves the champions of the preborn, WE often did not do so in a wholly JUST manner.
WE became guilty of
COMPROMISE
COMPLICITY
COWARDICE
COMPLACENCY
WE were deceived and believed lies.
WE became culpable with this holocaust before a holy God. And I am speaking of prolifers here.
We didn't bring the TRUTH into full conflict with this work of darkness. We made war with injustice and ageism, using unjust and ageist means.
We called on legislators to make laws that permitted Murder:
IF it happened before the baby was a certain age.
IF the baby had a criminal for a father (as in rape).
IF the baby's teenage mama had parental permission.
IF she had thought about it for 24 hours.
IF she was informed that her baby was alive.
IF it was not done with taxpayer money.
We did this. We were taught to do this. And we did this thinking we were standing for LIFE and TRUTH. But we were doing WRONG.
Now, not everything we did was wrong,
but what was wrong, WAS WRONG, and WE MUST RECOGNIZE AND RECKON WITH IT.
We must humbly REPENT. As individuals, as churches, as communities, as states, as a nation. Let us confess it before the Lord and do RIGHT.
WE NEED to cease to do evil and learn to do well.
WE NEED to stop following the multitude (including the Prolife multitude) to do evil and wrest judgment from the weak and the innocent.
WE NEED to call for justice and plead for truth.
WE NEED to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.
WE NEED prod our leaders to do justly and establish equity. They must be what they didn't at the start. The time to "do justly" is always NOW.
As Wesley Thomas says, "The Supreme Court is not the Supreme Being."
Don't DIEFY the Supreme Court, DEFY Roe v Wade
IGNORE ROE.
DEFY ROE.
Abortion must be ABOLISHED.
Sunday, January 7, 2018
No Room for Mentioning Abortion When Preaching Through Daniel Nine...Excuse ME?
A friend of mine on Facebook made a post the other day that expressed the opinion that if a pastor really cared for the preborn, he would find a way to talk about abortion in his church every week.
This brought on a whole slough of responses, one of which caught my eye.
The comment stated: "Not if he is an expository preacher. I preached from Daniel 9 today and didn't mention abortion. Don't plan to mention it next week either."
It greatly bothered me that this pastor replied so pathetically (due to the fact that we know at least 3500 preborn babies ARE murdered daily in this nation by the under the color of law but no one's gonna guilt him into bringing it up to his congregation) and flippantly (as if abortion really isn't homicide in the worst degree or that preborn babies have any more value then the toddlers being taught in his Children's Church) to arrogantly state that Daniel 9 did not lend itself in any way to talking about the sin of abortion.
I happen to love the ninth chapter of Daniel (and specifically the prayer of Daniel it contains) with a passion, and I could not help but make the following comment:
"Daniel 9? This Daniel 9?"
3 "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:"
4 "And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;"
5 "We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:"
6 "Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land."
7 "O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee."
8 "O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee."
9 "To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;"
10 "Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets."
11 "Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him." 12 "And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem."
13 "As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth."
14 "Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice."
15 "And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly."
16 "O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us."
17 "Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake."
18 "O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies."
19 "O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name."
20 "And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;"
"So, you are saying that when Daniel was seeking God's face in prayer,
When he laid out and confessed the sins of his people,
When he acknowledged God's just judgment upon them for their iniquities (the most grievous among them having been child sacrifice and the shedding of innocent blood),
When he beseeched God's mercy,
The horrific act of abortion, our Nation's holocaust of the greatest proportion, did not enter your mind?
There is much parallel to our own society:
Our sin as a people, including the massive slaughter of our children, far outnumbering the bloodshed of King Manasseh, which precipitated the Captivity, and the justice of God and the need for God's people to seek His face in repentance?
This would seem a most opportune moment in the book of Daniel to bring up abortion."
Then I finished up my comment...
"We must also must consider that the brother in Christ who made the original post didn't say that a pastor had to mention abortion IN the sermon. He said "in church". I would assume that he meant during the service somewhere, in the sermon, yes,
OR in announcements...
perhaps inviting the body to join him at the local abortion mill to preach and plead, or to the streets for public engagement, to bring the Gospel into conflict with the culture that tolerates baby murder and engage for truth in that venue,
OR during a testimony time to thank the Lord for the "save last week of a mother who turned from the killing of her child",
OR in prayer for the turning of our nation's leaders to establish justice and equity for the preborn as well as the born, for the parents who are scheduled to murder the children to hear the truth and repent, not only turning from abortion, but turning to the Saviour."
The truth of God must be proclaimed. Abortion must be abolished.
This brought on a whole slough of responses, one of which caught my eye.
The comment stated: "Not if he is an expository preacher. I preached from Daniel 9 today and didn't mention abortion. Don't plan to mention it next week either."
It greatly bothered me that this pastor replied so pathetically (due to the fact that we know at least 3500 preborn babies ARE murdered daily in this nation by the under the color of law but no one's gonna guilt him into bringing it up to his congregation) and flippantly (as if abortion really isn't homicide in the worst degree or that preborn babies have any more value then the toddlers being taught in his Children's Church) to arrogantly state that Daniel 9 did not lend itself in any way to talking about the sin of abortion.
I happen to love the ninth chapter of Daniel (and specifically the prayer of Daniel it contains) with a passion, and I could not help but make the following comment:
"Daniel 9? This Daniel 9?"
3 "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:"
4 "And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;"
5 "We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:"
6 "Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land."
7 "O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee."
8 "O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee."
9 "To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;"
10 "Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets."
11 "Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him." 12 "And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem."
13 "As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth."
14 "Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice."
15 "And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly."
16 "O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us."
17 "Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake."
18 "O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies."
19 "O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name."
20 "And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;"
"So, you are saying that when Daniel was seeking God's face in prayer,
When he laid out and confessed the sins of his people,
When he acknowledged God's just judgment upon them for their iniquities (the most grievous among them having been child sacrifice and the shedding of innocent blood),
When he beseeched God's mercy,
The horrific act of abortion, our Nation's holocaust of the greatest proportion, did not enter your mind?
There is much parallel to our own society:
Our sin as a people, including the massive slaughter of our children, far outnumbering the bloodshed of King Manasseh, which precipitated the Captivity, and the justice of God and the need for God's people to seek His face in repentance?
This would seem a most opportune moment in the book of Daniel to bring up abortion."
Then I finished up my comment...
"We must also must consider that the brother in Christ who made the original post didn't say that a pastor had to mention abortion IN the sermon. He said "in church". I would assume that he meant during the service somewhere, in the sermon, yes,
OR in announcements...
perhaps inviting the body to join him at the local abortion mill to preach and plead, or to the streets for public engagement, to bring the Gospel into conflict with the culture that tolerates baby murder and engage for truth in that venue,
OR during a testimony time to thank the Lord for the "save last week of a mother who turned from the killing of her child",
OR in prayer for the turning of our nation's leaders to establish justice and equity for the preborn as well as the born, for the parents who are scheduled to murder the children to hear the truth and repent, not only turning from abortion, but turning to the Saviour."
The truth of God must be proclaimed. Abortion must be abolished.
Friday, October 6, 2017
20 Reasons Why the 20 Week Abortion Ban is Not Good
I cannot celebrate the 20 week abortion ban because I love my neighbor. The Bible describes true agape love (called charity) in "the Love Chapter", saying, "Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth" (I Corinthians 13:6).
20 REASONS why the ban is bad.
1. It is ageist in nature. Judging an individual, less human, and less worthy of protection based on their age, size, level of development, location, etc. Ageism is judging "according to appearance" violating Christ's command: "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment" (John 7:24). Ageism is evil. It must be repented of and forsaken.
2. It is completely arbitrary, moved by personal whim rather than truth. We know (Biblically, scientifically, medically) that a human's life begins at conception. To say "We will only protect you from murder once you can feel pain" is just as subjectively arbitrary as "once you pass puberty", "once you can vote", or "once you come out of your mother's body". If we should be happy that at least some humans will be protected, then why don't we celebrate Roe v. Wade? Roe protects humans once they're born. Fighting arbitrariness in an arbitrary way is ridiculous.
3. It causes unequal treatment of humans. The law should establish equity, equal just and protection for all. The famous statue "Justice" is pictured with a blindfold, not favoring a side in the case based on who the players are. In the Law (see Exodus 23:1-9 for example), God warned to avoid respect of persons in judgment. The all wise God declared "It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment" (Proverbs 24:23). The prophets decried the lack of equity in their day:
"And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter." (Isaiah 59:14).
"Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity." (Micah 3:9).
Pro-Life leaders should heed this warning. This ban establishes inequity, NOT equity. And inequity IS iniquity.
4. It undermines what we profess to believe. If someone says that they believe that humans begin at conception and that abortion is a wrongful killing of said human, yet says that you can kill that human at any point after conception, they have exposed themselves as inconsistent and hypocritical. And the world sees through it.
5. It is ineffective, and won't save the babies like the Pro-life public thinks it will. Over 90% of abortions are committed before 12 weeks. Only 1.2-1.3% of abortions occur after 20 weeks. This ban, so hailed by the Pro-Life community abandons more than 98% of preborn victims to murder.
6. Even the babies it claims to protect (those after 20 weeks) are not safe. It has exceptions of rape, incest, and life of the mother. None of these exceptions are just reasons to murder an innocent person (I have dealt with these in other posts, which can be found and read). The awful truth is that nearly all Pro-Life politicians, including President Donald Trump, will make exceptions for murder. So if a woman is past 20 weeks, and wants an abortion, she can just claim she was raped, or get a physician to say it could endanger her life, and the baby can still be slain.
7. It educates the public erroneously. Laws inform the public. People will just murder their child earlier, believing that it is okay because the children can't feel pain yet. I have heard it from the lips of aborting parents. "The government says it is okay." "My baby can't feel pain yet." Where do they gain such a pompous arrogance as they walk inside to kill their baby? From the Pro-life movement and their educational bills. The same is true with heartbeat legislation.
By the way, is murder wrong because it is painful? Should we make it legal to kill your wife while she's asleep so she doesn't feel the pain? Should the Mafia get away with killing as long as they use chloroform first? GOD FORBID. Let's teach the right thing by our laws.
8. It entrenches the lie that abortion is a constitutional right. The ban does not contradict the declaration of the Supreme Court about the idea that abortion being constitutional. They are in effect telling the public, "Your right to abortion is recognized. You can still end your baby's life, just do it sooner. However, the FACT is that the right to murder human beings is NOT in the U.S. Constitution. Our founding documents actually proclaim that life is an inalienable right, given by God. The Constitution was made to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity". That posterity is talking about our children. Murdering babies is not a right - It is a wrong.
9. It acts as though Roe v. Wade is legitimate law. Courts do not make laws. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. When a court gives an opinion that violates the Constitution (and the Higher Law of God), they are outside of their authority and it is the duty of the other branches of government and lesser magistrates to defy them, not capitulate to them and work within their parameters. If they said that children under 10 years of age, who had not gone through puberty to fully developed humans, are not protected under law and can be aborted, the executive branch, the legislative branch, and every state would have the duty to defy that opinion and not permit the murder of children in their jurisdiction. If we would defy the Supreme Court to protect 9 year olds, and not 19 weekers in the womb, it is only because we are become ageist, and must repent (see Reason #1).
10. It snatches justice from the afflicted. The most vulnerable are denied protection.
"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:" (Exodus 23:2).
"Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous" (Deuteronomy 16:19).
"Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause" (Exodus 23:6). Those who follow the crowd in this 20 week ban, neglecting the protection of those being slain, are violating Exodus 23:2 outright. Let us consider our ways.
11. It protects the murderers as long as they kill sooner. An abortionist can still murder, as long as his victims are younger, more vulnerable. Remember, over 98% are already being murdered before 20 weeks. This is assuming that murderers who have forsaken the Hypocratic Oath for the Hypocritic Oath can be trusted to not lie about how old the baby was in records. Moreover, don't forget the exceptions.
12. It does NOT allow for prosecution of those who would hire the assassin.
This is folly. Parents who procure an abortion are protagonists in the crime. If someone instigates a murder by seeking out and paying a hitman to slay an innocent person, they are also guilty. This idea of letting the one who buys the hit off would not be countenanced anywhere else BUT in the case of abortion. It is the fruit of the Pro-life practice of making women out to be a victim in the situation. The victim is the child. This again is INEQUITY.
13. It doesn't call abortion "Murder", nor treat it as such. It follows the pattern of every one of the hundreds of other federal and state Pro-life bills that have passed in these United States that neglected this truth.
14. It treats even the murder of the children past 20 weeks as NOT MURDER. The abortionist who kills a preborn child after that point, could face a fine, or up to five years in prison, or both. That is far less than the average sentence for homicide in the first degree of born persons.
15. It is a smokescreen, distracting from the fact that they are not doing their duty. They have the authority and obligation to establish equity for those under their jurisdiction by law, to punish evildoers and protect the innocent. "Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place" (Jeremiah 22:3). This bill does not accomplish their duty before God and man, but it does make it look like that they are doing something.
16. It paints the pro-life legislators as champions, while they are actually treacherous. Cheers go up for the heroes who faced the dragon. But what if the heroes just went up and made a deal with the dragon to only slay some girls from the village? Or only a few at a time? At least it won't eat all the children, as far as we know, right? They are champions, right? Wrong. The champions are the ones going who actually are taking up the cause of the ones they say they are representing. Heroes go to take the dragon DOWN.
NOW, I hasten to say that there is no doubt in my mind that many legislators, many workers in Pro-life organizations, many supporters of this ban BELIEVE they are doing right. They have been taught to do it this way, and have not really examined this endeavor in the light of Truth. But it is still wrong to do wrong! And we all must be confronted with the error. We all need to hear the truth, be exposed to the horror of this, search the Scriptures, consider our ways, and repent. We need to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God. Opposing injustice unjustly is not just. We need to be shown where we're wrong and how to oppose this evil in the right way.
We need to recognize that in spite of our Pro-life stickers and high sounding religious and political zeal, and prayers to God to bless our efforts, our hands are "full of blood". We need to hearken to the LORD: "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil, Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow..." (Isaiah 1).
We need to forsake the foolish and live! Let us exhort each other and our leaders to be true champions of the weakest among us! Pro-life congressmen and senators are putting bills out that they are told the people are demanding. Let them hear the demand for total and immediate abolition of abortion!
17. It gives voters and supporters a false sense of peace and hope. Millions of Pro-lifers, including multitudes of Christians hear of this ban and rejoice, not realizing all the ramifications. They think, "Wow! We're doing something! We're winning!" and they keeping supporting unrighteous decrees and voting for those who compromise and collaborate with the holocaust of their neighbors, all the while, thinking they are opposing this evil the right way. It is a perfect example of the verse, "For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace" (Jeremiah 8:11). It lulls us to continue the trend of trimming the tree, rather than wake up to the truth and take the axe to the root. It keeps us from unfeigned love, from righteous action, from actual victory.
18. It fails to acknowledge the abortion holocaust and our guilt. Far from humbly confessing the slaughter of over 60 million American children, it perpetuates the ghastly killing under color of law, under the guise of being caring and compassionate about the pain of victims.
19. It fails to be repentant. Deciding to only kill younger babies is not humbly confessing our sin, and turning to God in repentance, seeking mercy for ourselves and healing for our land. "Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?" (Psalm 94:20). Should we expect God to bless us while we continue to cast His law behind our backs? Let us humble ourselves, and pray, and seek His face, and TURN FROM OUR WICKED WAYS, including the way of perverting the justice of the most innocent and most vulnerable in our land--the preborn, whose murders after this ban, if it ever is signed into law, will continue to be the number one cause of death in America.
20. It keeps abortion safe---from ABOLITION. This does not secure the safety of the innocent. It secures the prolonging of the bloodshed.
The things this 20 week ban does do effectively is:
A. Give Pro-life organizations something to cheer over and garner support for more like actions.
B. Give Pro-life government leaders a 100% Pro-Life voting record and future votes.
C. Give Pro-life people the illusion that the fight is being won and keep them content to continue giving and voting for the same. We need to repent and abolish abortion.
I know many will say, "You are just not happy because it isn't doing enough".
That is not the issue. It is not about doing enough. It is about doing what is RIGHT.
Others will make a plea towards pragmatism. But, we need to choose to be found OBEDIENT to our King Jesus. "Duty is ours. Results are God's." Why should God bless wicked measures and iniquitous decrees? Let us trust the Lord. God's work done God's way will work.
Finally, someone will say, "But if we didn't have these bills, if we didn't regulate abortion, there would be no protection at all for babies in the womb. What would we have if we didn't have the Pro-life organizations, lobbyists, and lawmakers pushing for such bills?"
One answer the above argument? We MIGHT have what France, Germany, Russia, and many other nations have. Those secular humanist governments only allow abortion up to 12 weeks. What fools we are, to think that we are so conservative in this! The preborn have more "protection" under those God hating governments than in the most Pro-life states in our land.
OR...
We MIGHT have Christians actually repenting of their apathy and compromise and rising up to love their preborn neighbors themselves instead of trusting and paying someone else to do it for them. We might have Christians going to the gates of death in droves, to stand and plead for lives and warning the wicked and rescuing the weak. We might have Christians engaging with our society, in the church assembly, in the public square, and on social media bringing the Gospel into conflict with the culture of child sacrifice. We might have God's people spreading the truth, seeding the land with literature, etc. about the holocaust and the need for abolition. We might have a flood of voters swelling with a voice as strong as thunder demanding the END OF ABORTION, the ABOLITION OF HUMAN ABORTION. The Lord knows.
Again, "Duty is ours. Results are God's."
Abortion MUST be ABOLISHED.
20 REASONS why the ban is bad.
1. It is ageist in nature. Judging an individual, less human, and less worthy of protection based on their age, size, level of development, location, etc. Ageism is judging "according to appearance" violating Christ's command: "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment" (John 7:24). Ageism is evil. It must be repented of and forsaken.
2. It is completely arbitrary, moved by personal whim rather than truth. We know (Biblically, scientifically, medically) that a human's life begins at conception. To say "We will only protect you from murder once you can feel pain" is just as subjectively arbitrary as "once you pass puberty", "once you can vote", or "once you come out of your mother's body". If we should be happy that at least some humans will be protected, then why don't we celebrate Roe v. Wade? Roe protects humans once they're born. Fighting arbitrariness in an arbitrary way is ridiculous.
3. It causes unequal treatment of humans. The law should establish equity, equal just and protection for all. The famous statue "Justice" is pictured with a blindfold, not favoring a side in the case based on who the players are. In the Law (see Exodus 23:1-9 for example), God warned to avoid respect of persons in judgment. The all wise God declared "It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment" (Proverbs 24:23). The prophets decried the lack of equity in their day:
"And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter." (Isaiah 59:14).
"Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity." (Micah 3:9).
Pro-Life leaders should heed this warning. This ban establishes inequity, NOT equity. And inequity IS iniquity.
4. It undermines what we profess to believe. If someone says that they believe that humans begin at conception and that abortion is a wrongful killing of said human, yet says that you can kill that human at any point after conception, they have exposed themselves as inconsistent and hypocritical. And the world sees through it.
5. It is ineffective, and won't save the babies like the Pro-life public thinks it will. Over 90% of abortions are committed before 12 weeks. Only 1.2-1.3% of abortions occur after 20 weeks. This ban, so hailed by the Pro-Life community abandons more than 98% of preborn victims to murder.
By the way, is murder wrong because it is painful? Should we make it legal to kill your wife while she's asleep so she doesn't feel the pain? Should the Mafia get away with killing as long as they use chloroform first? GOD FORBID. Let's teach the right thing by our laws.
8. It entrenches the lie that abortion is a constitutional right. The ban does not contradict the declaration of the Supreme Court about the idea that abortion being constitutional. They are in effect telling the public, "Your right to abortion is recognized. You can still end your baby's life, just do it sooner. However, the FACT is that the right to murder human beings is NOT in the U.S. Constitution. Our founding documents actually proclaim that life is an inalienable right, given by God. The Constitution was made to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity". That posterity is talking about our children. Murdering babies is not a right - It is a wrong.
9. It acts as though Roe v. Wade is legitimate law. Courts do not make laws. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. When a court gives an opinion that violates the Constitution (and the Higher Law of God), they are outside of their authority and it is the duty of the other branches of government and lesser magistrates to defy them, not capitulate to them and work within their parameters. If they said that children under 10 years of age, who had not gone through puberty to fully developed humans, are not protected under law and can be aborted, the executive branch, the legislative branch, and every state would have the duty to defy that opinion and not permit the murder of children in their jurisdiction. If we would defy the Supreme Court to protect 9 year olds, and not 19 weekers in the womb, it is only because we are become ageist, and must repent (see Reason #1).
10. It snatches justice from the afflicted. The most vulnerable are denied protection.
"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:" (Exodus 23:2).
"Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous" (Deuteronomy 16:19).
"Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause" (Exodus 23:6). Those who follow the crowd in this 20 week ban, neglecting the protection of those being slain, are violating Exodus 23:2 outright. Let us consider our ways.
11. It protects the murderers as long as they kill sooner. An abortionist can still murder, as long as his victims are younger, more vulnerable. Remember, over 98% are already being murdered before 20 weeks. This is assuming that murderers who have forsaken the Hypocratic Oath for the Hypocritic Oath can be trusted to not lie about how old the baby was in records. Moreover, don't forget the exceptions.
12. It does NOT allow for prosecution of those who would hire the assassin.
This is folly. Parents who procure an abortion are protagonists in the crime. If someone instigates a murder by seeking out and paying a hitman to slay an innocent person, they are also guilty. This idea of letting the one who buys the hit off would not be countenanced anywhere else BUT in the case of abortion. It is the fruit of the Pro-life practice of making women out to be a victim in the situation. The victim is the child. This again is INEQUITY.
13. It doesn't call abortion "Murder", nor treat it as such. It follows the pattern of every one of the hundreds of other federal and state Pro-life bills that have passed in these United States that neglected this truth.
14. It treats even the murder of the children past 20 weeks as NOT MURDER. The abortionist who kills a preborn child after that point, could face a fine, or up to five years in prison, or both. That is far less than the average sentence for homicide in the first degree of born persons.
15. It is a smokescreen, distracting from the fact that they are not doing their duty. They have the authority and obligation to establish equity for those under their jurisdiction by law, to punish evildoers and protect the innocent. "Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place" (Jeremiah 22:3). This bill does not accomplish their duty before God and man, but it does make it look like that they are doing something.
16. It paints the pro-life legislators as champions, while they are actually treacherous. Cheers go up for the heroes who faced the dragon. But what if the heroes just went up and made a deal with the dragon to only slay some girls from the village? Or only a few at a time? At least it won't eat all the children, as far as we know, right? They are champions, right? Wrong. The champions are the ones going who actually are taking up the cause of the ones they say they are representing. Heroes go to take the dragon DOWN.
NOW, I hasten to say that there is no doubt in my mind that many legislators, many workers in Pro-life organizations, many supporters of this ban BELIEVE they are doing right. They have been taught to do it this way, and have not really examined this endeavor in the light of Truth. But it is still wrong to do wrong! And we all must be confronted with the error. We all need to hear the truth, be exposed to the horror of this, search the Scriptures, consider our ways, and repent. We need to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God. Opposing injustice unjustly is not just. We need to be shown where we're wrong and how to oppose this evil in the right way.
We need to recognize that in spite of our Pro-life stickers and high sounding religious and political zeal, and prayers to God to bless our efforts, our hands are "full of blood". We need to hearken to the LORD: "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil, Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow..." (Isaiah 1).
We need to forsake the foolish and live! Let us exhort each other and our leaders to be true champions of the weakest among us! Pro-life congressmen and senators are putting bills out that they are told the people are demanding. Let them hear the demand for total and immediate abolition of abortion!
17. It gives voters and supporters a false sense of peace and hope. Millions of Pro-lifers, including multitudes of Christians hear of this ban and rejoice, not realizing all the ramifications. They think, "Wow! We're doing something! We're winning!" and they keeping supporting unrighteous decrees and voting for those who compromise and collaborate with the holocaust of their neighbors, all the while, thinking they are opposing this evil the right way. It is a perfect example of the verse, "For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace" (Jeremiah 8:11). It lulls us to continue the trend of trimming the tree, rather than wake up to the truth and take the axe to the root. It keeps us from unfeigned love, from righteous action, from actual victory.
18. It fails to acknowledge the abortion holocaust and our guilt. Far from humbly confessing the slaughter of over 60 million American children, it perpetuates the ghastly killing under color of law, under the guise of being caring and compassionate about the pain of victims.
19. It fails to be repentant. Deciding to only kill younger babies is not humbly confessing our sin, and turning to God in repentance, seeking mercy for ourselves and healing for our land. "Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?" (Psalm 94:20). Should we expect God to bless us while we continue to cast His law behind our backs? Let us humble ourselves, and pray, and seek His face, and TURN FROM OUR WICKED WAYS, including the way of perverting the justice of the most innocent and most vulnerable in our land--the preborn, whose murders after this ban, if it ever is signed into law, will continue to be the number one cause of death in America.
20. It keeps abortion safe---from ABOLITION. This does not secure the safety of the innocent. It secures the prolonging of the bloodshed.
The things this 20 week ban does do effectively is:
A. Give Pro-life organizations something to cheer over and garner support for more like actions.
B. Give Pro-life government leaders a 100% Pro-Life voting record and future votes.
C. Give Pro-life people the illusion that the fight is being won and keep them content to continue giving and voting for the same. We need to repent and abolish abortion.
I know many will say, "You are just not happy because it isn't doing enough".
That is not the issue. It is not about doing enough. It is about doing what is RIGHT.
Others will make a plea towards pragmatism. But, we need to choose to be found OBEDIENT to our King Jesus. "Duty is ours. Results are God's." Why should God bless wicked measures and iniquitous decrees? Let us trust the Lord. God's work done God's way will work.
Finally, someone will say, "But if we didn't have these bills, if we didn't regulate abortion, there would be no protection at all for babies in the womb. What would we have if we didn't have the Pro-life organizations, lobbyists, and lawmakers pushing for such bills?"
One answer the above argument? We MIGHT have what France, Germany, Russia, and many other nations have. Those secular humanist governments only allow abortion up to 12 weeks. What fools we are, to think that we are so conservative in this! The preborn have more "protection" under those God hating governments than in the most Pro-life states in our land.
OR...
We MIGHT have Christians actually repenting of their apathy and compromise and rising up to love their preborn neighbors themselves instead of trusting and paying someone else to do it for them. We might have Christians going to the gates of death in droves, to stand and plead for lives and warning the wicked and rescuing the weak. We might have Christians engaging with our society, in the church assembly, in the public square, and on social media bringing the Gospel into conflict with the culture of child sacrifice. We might have God's people spreading the truth, seeding the land with literature, etc. about the holocaust and the need for abolition. We might have a flood of voters swelling with a voice as strong as thunder demanding the END OF ABORTION, the ABOLITION OF HUMAN ABORTION. The Lord knows.
Again, "Duty is ours. Results are God's."
Abortion MUST be ABOLISHED.
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