Slaughter of
the Innocents
By
Herod, the Rome appointed king of Judea, feeling
threatened by the news of the birth of the king of the Jews in Bethlehem, took
measures to eliminate this possible opponent to the throne. Knowing the
approximate time of the birth he ordered the slaughter of all the children under
the age of two in Bethlehem and “in all the coasts thereof.” This was probably
carried out by war-ready, experienced Roman soldiers, accustomed to battling
equally fierce adversaries with shields and swords. This horror was almost
certainly witnessed by weeping, pleading mothers whose children were torn from
their loving arms – but they wept in vain for “In Ramah was there a voice heard,
lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children,
and would not be comforted, because they are not.”
The
United States is a republic. Can this country, in any way, be compared to Herod?
No, our denial is loud and clear, we are completely, drastically different. Our
people are enlightened, fairly well educated and we have civil rights and
freedoms. Women in America have equal rights - it is the discordantly blaring
mothers who actually, unbelievably demand the right to slaughter their own
pre-born children. Their passionate demands are met by a Marxist, activist
specially selected supreme court and allowed by a morally corrupt congress –
both of which completely ignore the very constitution they have sworn to uphold.
What happened to the three branches of government designed with checks and
balances to protect the citizens? What about the guarantee of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness for everyone including pre-born children?
Are
the pre-born children considered unfit? The socialist agenda apparently targets
the pre-born but womanhood and motherhood are the real targets. Congressional
and Supreme Court misdeeds are applauded by those who are persuaded that they
own their bodies and can therefore do whatever they want with it. Somehow, they
see absolutely no correlation between doing whatever they want with their own
body and doing whatever they want to someone else’s body. The socialist
philosophy persuades women that their body has more value than the infant they
carry. They feel perfectly justified to have their children torn from them, not
from their loving arms by a heartless enemy but literally torn piece by piece
from their wombs. Obviously, legal permission, according to the all powerful
state, has been granted but does that make it permissible?
The
defining difference between a Marxist and a Christian is that the Marxist does
not acknowledge a difference between right and wrong. Whatever is expedient is
right - whether it is a lie to cover guilt for the supposed good of the country,
infanticide for convenience, euthanasia to cover guilt, power for the sake of
self aggrandizement or compliance for the sake of a vote. The state can permit
sin but not without eventual accountability. Politics without principles are
destructive to humanity starting with the most vulnerable. The Marxists can spin
and endorse new terminology but one cannot change the consequences by calling it
termination of pregnancy or abortion. The results are still the same. One cannot
alter the sanctity of life by changing the word from baby to fetus.
Children are viewed as a blessing in a God-fearing society but as an
inconvenient cursing in a selfish, godless materialistic world. In our
throw-away society we have thrown away about 44 million individuals – 44 million
lives, people who could have contributed their talents to the country. They
might have been teachers, doctors, engineers, friends, neighbors, mothers and
fathers.
As of 2002 approximately 82% of adult United States citizens claimed to be Christian. Christianity does not promote infanticide for He said let the little children come unto me. Further He stated that whosoever would offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Yet one in five of those who have abortions are professed Christians. How can this be? Adherence to the state over adherence to our higher authority?
We must speak with their votes, as well as our voices, so as to be heard above the Herods and others who have ignorantly or knowingly embraced the Marxist agenda. They often utilize verbal volume when they lack truth and substance. Their lies sound beneficial and benign but are deceptive and destructive. They entrap the desperate and the selfish who are looking for an easy way out. Accepting responsibility for personal actions is not a part of their personal strategy. We must take a stand for those who cannot stand for themselves. Stand up for the 44 million and be counted. When people accept and tolerate everything, including infanticide, they end up believing in nothing, not even their own posterity.
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