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Christians Supporting Barack Obama’s War on the Unborn

I am used to the Religious Left selling out the unborn. When I say Religious Left, I mean folks who go by the tag of liberal, or I notice now that they like to call themselves Progressive. The tag Liberal does have those negative connotations, so I am sure a new name will help them feel better about themselves. But in the end, Progressivism is just Liberalism progressively worse. It is much more secular, and it’s vision for the future is quite bleak.

Here lies the problem – the controlling elite of the Progressive Movement are the Seculars, who of course hate Christianity. The Seculars will allow religious folks like Jim Wallis as a court jester, as long he can recruit for them, and show Democratic Candidates how to do religious-speak to fool Christians. They will pat the Religious Left on the head and make them feel they really do matter, as long as they tow the party line.

That means if you are pro-life and try to use legislation to protect the unborn – you don’t get to go to the back of the bus, you are thrown out of the bus. Abortion is a Golden Cow in the Secular Pantheon of beliefs. This is why I am unable to understand Bob Casey Jr., who by the way is one of the very few pro-life Democrats in office, and supported Obama during the election. It’s as if he forgot what the elites of the Democratic party did to his pro-life father, by throwing him out of the bus. It was a crying shame, and it should never be forgotten. But I am getting off the subject here.

The Seculars did have a religious problem – pro-life Catholics and Evangelicals. They were instrumental in electing pro-life candidates for President, who just happen to be Republicans. This makes them very angry. Why? You see, the Seculars really believe that we can’t live without them. We need them to tell us how to think, what to do, and solve our problems. Our help must come from them through the State – for without the State we can do nothing. How dare they vote for a Republican instead of an enlightened Democrat!

They knew pro-life people defending the unborn is a conviction of what is right, and that certainty of right and wrong scares them. They also knew it is impossible to change their mind, but they needed their votes. Poor Seculars! What could they do, they could never justify voting for a pro-choice candidate, or could they? They needed a plan to persuade them to sell out the unborn, all the while thinking that they are helping them. Oh, those Seculars, they came up with a plan!

What was their plan? Just how did they persuade folks to sell out the unborn? First, they use the Religious Left to accuse Pro-lifers of being single issue folks, and that we must remember there are other important issues, like care for the poor and global warming. Bad pro-lifer! Silly pro-lifer, you are uniformed of other social issues and you should be ashamed! I find it curious that since they don’t know me and yet judge me so – I really do care about many issues, but that’s another thing.

Then, they tell us the way to reduce abortions is not by legislation, and that it’s not possible to do that anyway. A careful use of untruthful spin. by saying the President doesn’t have anything to do with abortion, and the Republicans didn’t do anything anyway, is sprinkled in quite liberally (no pun intended). And then for extra good measure, it didn’t hurt to tell folks that the abortion rate didn’t go down during the Bush administration, or even better yet – tell them that abortion actually went up during the Bush years! It didn’t matter that the abortion rate actually declined to a thirty tear low, if you are going to sell out the unborn, a little deceit might actually help.

It is explained to us, that every enlightened person knows the way to deal with abortion, is by praying for the end of abortion and to show compassion. If we conquer the social issues that cause abortion, then abortion will be substantially reduced. So be content with passing some government program. Of course you want to say that it is not an either/or thing: we must pray, show compassion by providing education, health care, or counseling – and fight for the end of abortion. Abortion is the killing of a unborn baby, is it not? Can you imagine, if you use the same line of thinking regarding child abuse? How about murder or rape? Do we wait for Utopia and let all hell break lose?

How long will those social programs take to work? Twenty or thirty years? What if the social programs don’t work? The unborn deserve social justice too. So while we wait for some social program to do whatever it’s supposed to do, the unborn continue to die.

But now you have to watch their next step, because they get pretty tricky. They start talking about the other issues, focus entirely on those issues, and by a slight of hand – walk away from the unborn. They now feel very good about themselves, for they are the enlightened ones, and as the Seculars pat them on the head with their approval, they feel themselves a very compassionate folk. And the unborn continue to die.

But it was a couple of comments made by regular people that set me back a little. I guess I was broadsided. Now I think they are regular people, meaning that that they are not ideologues with an agenda. Ideologues get sneaky sometimes, by acting like regular people, and then zap you with their agenda in a back handed way. But I am going to assume that they are regular people.

The first comment came from a woman who said she didn’t see anywhere in the Bible that Christians were supposed to run about changing laws, and we should concern ourselves with preaching the Gospel instead. Christ is coming soon, isn’t He? And anyway, isn’t it a woman’s business whether she chooses an abortion or not? Well, it does come to mind that Christians were deeply involved in the Abolition Movement, Susan B. Anthony happened to be a Christian, and we all know Martin Luther King was a Christian. I guess she meant that we should have turned our heads when it came to slavery, tell women that of course they should not vote, and civil rights legislation wasn’t all that important.

Now the second comment was much more penetrating, and pierced to the very core of our daily lives – he simply said, – there are much more important things than abortion. That did take courage, it’s what a lot of people feel, but would never have the courage to say. I applaud him for his honesty.

This cuts to the quick, doesn’t it? I mean, this really is the reason. This is why the unborn are still threatened by abortion for 35 years – because everything else is more important. I do want to point to Nazi Germany, and their concentration camps killing millions of Jews, Catholics and other Christians. I’m sure there were regular folks going to work each morning, drinking their coffee, watching the smoke raising from the camps, and tending to much more important things.

Maybe we have the other important things, such as the crisis in our economy. It was the number one issue for those who voted in this past election. We just think there are more important things than protecting the unborn. Most folks agree that America will be judged for the killing of the unborn, and I wonder how long we can go on like this. Maybe Someone is trying to tell us something.

But I will consider that I should just preach the Gospel, Jesus will come back soon (probably tomorrow), and leave the issue of having an abortion up to the mother. I will tend to the more important things. It’s surely easier to walk away. I get worn down and fatigued in the fight, I’m tired of facing the hatred of folks who disagree with you, and tired of arguing with folks who should know better. And the lukewarm – well, you know how Jesus feels about them.

OK, this is what I am going to do – I am going to walk away. Why not just leave the heaps of aborted babies in the trash – who cares? They are just body parts and babies burned with a saline solution. A friend sent me an article, it was about how the abortion industry makes money from selling parts of aborted babies. Maybe it’s good for the economy – and it may create some jobs. There are the more important things – oh, well, hell with them!

You know, the next step is pretty interesting. If I don’t care about a defenseless unborn baby, why should I care about his/her mother? Remember, the decision was hers to take the life within her and destroy it. She was the one who felt that spark of life within her, knowing that she was a different person, a mother. There was a new person in her life, her child. If she threw it away, and her body is damaged by the procedure, and her heart is broken by the emptiness, why should I care? Hell with her!

I can see the progression here. If it’s OK to preach the Gospel without caring about killing unborn babies who are defenseless, then why should I be concerned helping folks, who should be helping themselves? This means I can also walk away from the hungry and homeless, I am sure it was their fault anyway. I can turn my head away from the widow and the orphan, they are not my widow and orphan. Forget about those in prison, it’s not my fault they’re in there. To hell with them too.

You know, it’s almost a relief. I don’t have to care anymore. I don’t have to fight anymore. I don’t have to debate about stupid stuff. I can do what I want to do. I can tend to the more important things.

It’s amazing when you get to tend to the more important things. You get to pick the things that are more important to you. I get to be the center of it all, doing what I want to do. It is interesting preaching the Gospel this way. You kinda know where those health, wealth and prosperity folks come from. It is a different way of looking at things.

Before you know it, your life begins to change. You find that you have made yourself the most important thing. And, it is as if, the other things I have chosen have become bigger than life, bigger than me, and have become gods. The people that I hang with now, seem to have the same gods too.

But as I sit here, I find myself alone. It’s pretty hard to be in the quiet – I find it harder to look at myself. And I really find it hard to describe the feeling of knowing, that God is also looking at me.

It gets harder to listen to that still small voice, and yet I do hear something:

Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
“For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

And then I realized – that I could not walk away from the unborn, for I began to see Jesus with them. And if Jesus was with them, then I needed to be there too. I can’t limit my reach just to providing education, health care, or counseling, just because a political party wants me to – trying to pacify me, and get my support in this War on the Unborn. If I want to change laws to achieve social justice for everyone, then I must not discriminate – I must also include the unborn.

I will not bow to a political party, the Seculars, or to a rabidly pro-abortion President – I will speak for those who are unable to speak for themselves, and I will stand for those who are unable to stand for themselves. I will stand with, and for the unborn.

And I pray that you will stop supporting Barack Obama’s War on the Unborn. You already have innocent blood on your hands – you will also bear responsibility of every baby that will be aborted abroad, because of Obama’s actions in reversing the Mexico City Policy.

What will you do when the President and the Democratic congress:

1) Fail to renew the Hyde Amendment? The pro-choice lobby has been wailing about how many babies have not been aborted, because of withholding federal funds from paying for abortion. Do you want tax dollars pay for abortions in this country?

2) Reverse the Bush’s policy of withholding funds from the U.N., that provides monies for China’s one child policy? Do you want to fund forced abortions in China? Are you kidding me?

3) Pass the Freedom of Choice Act? Do you want every restriction removed, and make abortion a fundamental right in this country? Do you want killing an unborn baby a “fundamental right?”

I ask you, please, don’t close your eyes to the senseless slaughter of the innocents, continue to spin and deceive, and recite talking points like a mindless puppet. Please, open your eyes, your mind, and your heart – and speak for those who are unable to speak for themselves, and stand for those who are unable to stand for themselves.

What are you going to do? Will you stand with Jesus, who stands with each and every baby – who is born or not? Or, will you stand with the man who is waging his war against them?

May our hearts beat with the heart of Jesus.

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