Do Two Wrongs Make a Right?

The death of abortion practitioner George Tiller has been a very hot topic over the past few days.  Tiller was killed in church by an already apprehended suspect.  Tiller’s family released a statement saying that it was an abomination that Mr. Tiller was killed in a house of worship and that he was a man dedicated to the rights of women everywhere.  The killing has been reminiscent of the abortion clinic bombings in Alabama several years ago, and Mr. Tiller is the eighth abortion clinic employee and fourth doctor killed in the obviously hostile abortion debate.

I find this entire situation reprehensible on a number of levels.  For starters, I find it terribly hypocritical that while Mr. Tiller was a champion of women’s rights and viewed himself as being part of the solution, Mr. Tiller was most ostensibly a part of a huge problem.  The holocaust of abortion has far outpaced the holocaust of WW II, and all signs are that this holocaust will not be ended by any storming of concentration camps by allied troops.  Instead, this bloody stream of death and murder will continue unabated due to new legislation passed by Barack Obama, such as the Freedom of Choice Act, as well as various other actions taken by the newly minted liberal government.  While Mr. Tiller was so very protective of the rights of women (some of whom, arguably, were in the situation because of their own selfishness and lack of accountability), he was doing so at the expense of unborn infants, who, scientifically, are just as human as we are.

The unborn infant is not an organ, like a liver or a pancreas.  Rather, it has it’s own DNA, its own metabolism, its own ability to reproduce cells.  While it is dependent on the nutrition and behavior of the mother, in essence, no child alive can lay claim to any different state.  Whether the child must be properly nursed inside the mother’s womb or outside the womb, it is still entirely dependent on the mother for survival.  Therefore, it can’t stand to reason that the unborn fetus is philosophically or scientifically different from the born infant.  Because of this conviction, I find abortion to be one of the most reprehensible acts a person can commit.  Abortion is the murder of, quite simply put, the least capable of our society to defend themselves.  As a civilized nation, it should be a moral duty of our country to protect those who are least able to protect themselves.  Therefore, I find abortion to simply be deplorable and horrible an a scale incomparable to any crime commited.

With all these things said, I believe that the acts that Mr. Tiller commited as an abortion practitioner were heinous and despicable.  Anyone who can sleep at night after a hard day of murdering innocent children is beyond my comprehension.  I have to wonder how one can sit in a house of God and be okay with knowing that they are ceasing permanently the existence of someone who could potentially be part of the solution.  That being said, however, I believe that it was wrong to the worst extent possible to repay his acts with a grisly shooting in the middle of a house of worship.

I agree entirely that, due to his sin, Mr. Tiller was worthy of death.  Also, I agree that I am worthy of the penalty of death, as is the shooter who killed Mr. Tiller.  You see, there is no problem with the idea that George Tiller commited abominations before the Lord.  The murder of the least capable of defending themselves is an odor before God, a sin that cannot and should not be tolerated by the body of Christ.  My feelings toward the entire situation can best be summed up by the following Bible passage:

Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst  they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”  This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.   And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”   And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.   But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.   Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”   She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more,” (John 8:2-11, ESV).

The woman’s sin was a sin worthy of death in the Hebrew culture.  Mr. Tiller’s sin, though not deemed worthy of death by our culture, is nonetheless the equivalent of sinfulness in the eyes of God.  The problem is that none of us meet the requirements necessary to be ruled worthy of being George Tiller’s executioner.  Was he a murderer?  Without a doubt.  Was he helping to perpetuate a mass murder of ridiculous proportions?  Certainly.  George Tiller was one of many hands dirtied by the blood of our nation’s innocent babes, the unborn souls who have never had the opportunity even to breathe the fresh air outside the womb.  For this, he was worthy of death.  However, consider also the words of Jesus:

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’   But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire, (Matthew 5:21-22).

Even those who have even reached the point of being angry at others are just as guilty of murder as someone who kills someone in cold blood.  In this truth is both the judgment and the relief of the gospel.  The judgment is that this standard is impossibly high for us to keep.  One is not capable of being this perfect.  The relief is that we don’t have to, because the finished work is on the shoulders of Jesus Christ.  Therefore, let no men be judge and jury, for that is the job of Christ Jesus alone.  It is the message Jesus gave to us both in the Sermon on the Mount and in the passage in John.  It is a hallmark of Jesus’ message that our sins have made us worthy of death, but that judgment belongs to the One who stands without sin, which is Christ the Lord alone.  Therefore, while Mr. Tiller’s works and deeds were an abomination worthy of death before the Lord, his killer likewise will answer to the Holy One of Israel.

It is my prayer for America that rather than debating the two sides of this issue, we would instead figure out a way to end the holocaust of abortion so that the blood of those who ARE truly innocent on our society are given a chance to be born and develop, possibly to change the world for the better.  For Mr. Tiller’s family, I offer my condolences that they lost a husband and a father.  To the would-be parents who enlisted the services of George Tiller to end their pregnancies, I pray for them to receive the mercy and love of God, to repent from their sins, and perhaps reconcile themselves to God with the realization that they will again see their lost little ones on the other side of the Eastern Gate.  For Mr. Tiller, I pray that his transition to the afterlife came with a reconciliation to the Lord his God, and that he is now experiencing the joy divine of living out eternity in the presence of both our Loving Father and those whom he took their lives.  There is no more expression of God’s love and reconciliation than that all wrongs will be righted and that all men who bow the knee to the Lord our God will experience reunion even with those that they potentially harmed.

A Six-O’Clock News Tragedy

This is a very difficult post to read.  If you do read, please keep in mind that I am only trying to place the reader in the frame of mind to understand the severity of the subject matter.  It is very graphic in nature, and was written to help people really understand the depth of how awful this practice is.

Today in suburban Charlotte, a seven-month old child was dragged from inside her home, stabbed in the back of the head, and when the killer finally was satisfied with their grisly handiwork, unceremoniously tossed the tiny, lifeless body in the trash can.

That didn’t get mentioned on today’s news.  It won’t get mentioned on today’s news in any city in America.  Sadly enough, the lack of news coverage does not mean that it did not happen.  This tragic event has happened 40 million times in America alone in the past 36 years.  It is performed by doctors and physicians who have taken oaths to “Do no one harm.”  This procedure, if you have yet to figure it out, is abortion.

While the abortion argument is that the fetus is not a human being, the very fact that the fetus has its own genetic makeup entirely different from either parent and in reality has the same basic needs as any human being- namely sustenance, shelter, and nurturing should expose that argument for the egregious lie that it is.  The only difference between the six month old fetus and the three day old newborn, aside from developmental differences, is the fact that the fetus draws all sustenance and oxygen from its umbilical cord.  However, the three day old newborn is just as helpless, so to create an imaginary line of demarcation between the previously nonhuman fetus and the human newborn is merely semantics to protect one’s right to not be accountable for one’s poor decisions.

Only in a truly barbaric society that has long since lost any last vestiges of morality could the decision to abort a baby be a “decision of choice.”  Anyone with any cognizance of the horrors of abortion could not, would not, should not, be okay with the concept of the brutal murder of an innocent life.  If the citizenry of America were fully familiar with the procedures that are undertaken in an abortion, there probably would be far fewer people who were in support of it.

I have an idea.  Maybe we should call the two sides “Pro-Life” and “Pro-Using a Saline solution inserted into the amniotic sac to burn the flesh right off of a fetus so that it is forcibly expelled in a bloody heap.”  If that does not work, maybe we should go with “Pro-Stabbing a fetus in the back of the head with scissors, sucking their brains out with a shop vac and tossing the lifeless carcass in a garbage can like an old sandwich.”

I don’t think that anyone who really thinks the process of abortion through from beginning to horrid conclusion could rationally support abortion.  How could it possibly be right to take a human child, with all inherent hopes and dreams possible in a young life, and dash them to the ground because of our own selfishness and conceit.  Shame on Americans who feel that this is an argument of semantics and choice and not the sanctity of life and the benefits of a civilized community.  This is not about freedom of a choice.  This is about whether or not Americans are barbaric, sickening creatures who are unable to look beyond their own selfishness and own desires for lack of accountability.

The Christian Right has a responsiblity to enforce the horrors of abortion, if for no other reason than to make sure that those who claim support for abortion solely out of lack of information are informed.

Barack Obama and abortion

Well, we are in a brand new presidential era, the Barack Obama era.  I have to admit that I find myself at least wanting to like him.  I want to believe in him, and I want to see him succeed.  I see in him a lot of promise as a leader, and so far, he has even been fearless in pummeling the Wall Street Weiners who got us in the financial quandary we are in.  I really want to like him.

In the end, though, I can’t.  I can’t for a couple of reasons.  The biggest reason is my feeling on abortion.  I realize that those who support abortion feel that the pro-life position is uneducated and unenlightened.  I have to ask you a question:  Which is more enlightened, encouraging a young mother who does not want to be pregnant to continue through until the child is born and then give the child a loving adopted home, or stabbing the child in the back of the head with an ice pick, sucking its brains out with a shop-vac, then tossing the tiny, lifeless body in a trash can like an empty bag of Cheetos?  You don’t actually think you can hide behind the whole “women’s rights” thing after that, do you?

Yes, women have rights.  They have rights over their bodies in the concept that no one has a right to hurt their bodies.  However, to argue that abortion should be allowable based on women’s rights is laughable.  A zygote is genetically different from the mother upon conception.  The zygote needs exactly what every other organism needs to grow and develop: food, water, and oxygen.  How then can you really claim that it is just part of woman’s body?

The deal is this:  when you have unprotected sex, you can and probably will eventually have a child.  That’s the way God designed us.  You don’t wanna have a baby?  THEN STOP HAVING UNPROTECTED SEX.  Be responsible.

What does this have to do with Mr. Obama?  Well, Obama has said over and over that he wants to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, that will allow for far less control over abortion than we have now.  There is nothing more barbaric in this culture than the practice of abortion, yet the “Enlightened One” feels that, rather than making a morally responsible choice, he should enable more to devalue life, then attempt to “educate” the masses on the seriousness of abortion, so that they are “safe” and “rare.”  We have casually stood by as more than 40 million innocent souls have been scattered to the wind by abortion and the irresponsibility of those who should be making sane decisions regarding the future of the growing lives inside of them.

Mr. Obama has some very strong traits that have made him someone who is a capable motivator and a charismatic speaker and leader.  However, without proper moral constraint, and without the ability to truly decipher what is morally correct, Mr. Obama is dooming America to sliding down an ever slippery slope of moral decay.  We can no longer continue to sit idly by while children are being brutally murdered in ways that would be censored from most movies.  Unless everyday Americans decide to act, we will only plunge further into this barbaric darkness that the latest in human thought and philosophy promises to lead us.  It is sad when those who are least capable of defending themselves are the least legally defended entities.  Shame on us as a society.  The gas chambers and ovens of Nazi Germany have been surpassed sevenfold by our own moral decay and lack of responsiblity toward sexuality.  That alone should be enough for those like Barack Obama and other Pro-Choice leaders in our country to stop and reconsider their actions and opinions.  I only pray that someday, someone will sound the alarm loud enough for those in power to listen.

Capital Punishment

For those who read the story of Noah, one cannot help but read the passage at the end of the story where God demands an accounting for the life of his fellow man.  Reading the passage, you see that in essence, God was deeming capital punishment not just permissible, but expected.  Why would a loving, kind God, who is our Beloved Father, not just allow, not just condone, but demand the life of a murderer?

The simple answer is this:  We are made in the image of God Himself.  To allow someone to take the life of another person, who was made in God’s image would be tantamount to defiling Himself.  Humanity is special in God’s eyes, and to allow people to wantonly take another person’s life would be to treat God with disdain.

If you read through the bible, you will notice that murderers and criminals were condemned to die, and the elderly and infant (the least capable of defending themselves) were to be protected at all costs.  In today’s world, the liberalist agenda has reversed those orders.  Criminals and murderers are receiving more and more protection from the system.  In contrast, men like Jack Kevorkian are taking lives and promoting “euthanasia.”  Our president-elect has made it very clear that he is supportive of abortion and would work to further abortion rights in America.  If there is any more telling evidence that our nation and our world is heading in the wrong direction from that desired by Holy GOD, I would be shocked.

I realize that God’s way is not the most popular way.  It just happens to be the right way.