Thursday, April 29, 2010

A Darwinistic Antithesis to God's Sovriegnity and Providence Over Life and Death

Taken From the Virginian Pilot Editorials on Wednesday, April 28th, 20210




Abortion Option




"With outrage I just read the following in The Pilot:'Gov. Bob McDonnell's effort to restrict government funds from being from being used for abortions.... was sustained by state lawmakers.' My husband and I tutor elementary school children who struggle with reading. My student happens to be one of eight born to an alcoholic mother and suffers from alcohol syndrome. It breaks my heart to look at his physical and mental disfigurement. Shouldn't this woman have been able to obtain an abortion? What are the prospects for this child, and what is /will the state and our illustrious male legislator do for him?"


[I am not disclosing the author's name at this point]




Dear friends and readers, is it really necessary for me to say anything? However, taking the risk of officiousness, I will lay out a few of the many errors that struck me as I read this sad peek into the worldview of a fellow American. Now, I understand that this mindset is common enough, and is a "natural" response of sinful man. Knowing those things though, only spurs me on to push the point farther. Okay, to start here, let me list some of the big errors in this argument coming from this twisted worldview:




1. This viewpoint shows a basic contempt for the sanctity and holiness of life.




2. It rejects the sovereignty of God's Providence that let this child be born into this world [i.e."Shouldn't this mother have been able to obtain an abortion?"].




3. It suggests that a person's worth or value [maybe even right to live] comes from their "potential", or achievements, or physical or mental capabilities. [Instead of a "certain inalienable right" that was directly given by the Jesus Christ to this child.




4. In the repeated cuts on Bob McDonnell and "our illustrious male legislators", the author shows an adherence to feminism and a very socialistic view of government that would elevate the state to the level of Almighty God and would "give" the state the power to determine who should live and who should die. Also, the author basically takes the lawmakers to task for letting a "incompetent drain on society" ever come to life in their state. [Further implying a trust in the State as high priest of this sought-after "utopia".]




So there you have it, an example of the thinking that a nation without the Lord will quickly slide into. This lady was basically saying,"It breaks my heart that this mother let this disgusting child ever be born". She wishes her student was dead! I seem to recall Jesus saying something about the thought of murder being as wrong as the real thing. Once a culture heads down the slippery slope of pride that would allow them to be deceived into thinking that they should be the ones who determine who has the right to live, where will they stop? I shudder to think of who would be next on the "compassionate hit list". Maybe the sick and elderly, maybe "anti-social and reclusive families who refuse to entrust their children to the state". You know, this mindset is not at all new. Hitler would love this article. The truth is, God is the only one who has legitimate authority to decide who lives, and who dies, and when. It it wrong and despicable to attempt to take over His role. I pray that God will turn our nation's heart back to Himself, and that our culture will realize that abortion is murder and murder has always been the easy way out. It's just that in the past, murder is not what Americans have aspired to for their nation.

14 comments:

  1. Very good post. It's sad what our nation has come to. We need to pray that Christians will be revived.

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  2. (And also that others will be saved, but I think the Christians need to be revived as well).

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  3. Sad and scary thought...I propose we revolutionize the country by having families full of children! :)

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  4. Thanks for sharing those thoughts. It certainly is sad to know that there are people who think that way. And you are right, she definitely was saying that she wished her student could have been killed in the womb. Scary!

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  5. Sad. I definitely would not want to be a special needs child being taught by her!

    Graham

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  6. This needs to be a letter to a newspaper, Daniel. More people need to read this. Great job.

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  7. Wow. Very good thoughts. Its crazy, the way that some people think. Sometimes, I wish I could say to people like that "Well how about if your mother had decided to abort you? How would you feel about that?" I don't know that it would go anywhere, but I would still like to say it. . .

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  8. Hey everybody! Thanks for commenting. I was thinking about doing this as an editorial [or something on the same subject], but we'll see. How did everyone like my Doug Phillips-ish title?

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  9. I like it too, except that sovereignty is misspelled ;P

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  10. Hehehe sshe is so caring for that child she feels so compastionate towards it and she wants to help it mmmm let's see maybe she should killl it ????????? What kinda logic is that has she asked the child if it wanted to be killed ??? I mean seriously a childs potential comes from what it is taught and the role modelsin it's life so even if we were judge people by there potential she has the opertunity to change that. All she needs to do is stop being selfish and not wanting to give up her time and effort gett out of the teachers unionand start really helping those kids. There really are slot of stories where teachers have changed kids lives it doesn't look Like this one will turn out that way :-(

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  11. Hey Abigail! He just never uses spel chalk on the compluter! :)

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  12. This is very sad. I had a handicapped sister that died at two and a half. She was one of the biggest blessings my family and I ever had!

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  13. Yeah, the abortion issue is a sad one =[ . The thing about our Nation's heart being turned back to God- it's possible there could be a revival but I think we're getting closer to end times and I think God is letting us go in that direction...It's really time for Christians to start standing up.

    O by the way, you put us far into the future with the date you put at the top ;) [20210]

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