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Atheism is Alive and Well in Congress

04 Wednesday Oct 2017

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Some atheistic remarks in relation to an abortion law proposed by the House GOP in Congress: “Women across the country deserve better. This law is a continuation of the Republican Party’s assault on women’s reproductive health” (Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Niles). “This bill is a cruel and ruthless attempt to undermine women and attack our rights to govern our bodies” (Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wisconsin).

The Dispatch (A-15, 10.4.2017) speaks of the law having no chance to pass in the Senate, and this may well be the case. If so, then why try? Because the life of children is on the line! “It’s not that bad!” someone might say. The Dispatch cites a 2013 Center for Disease Control stat: “…of the more than 664,000 reported abortions in 2013, 1.3 percent occurred at least 21 weeks into development.” Is there some sort of virtue in this low percentage? That is still over 6,000 murders!

Part of the justification to oppose the legislative effort is in relation to pain suffered. Evidently, according to some, pain in the womb by a child is not felt until “at least 24 weeks of development” occurred.

Thus, the moral standard is “suffering” and “pain,” not the nature of life as given by God. Atheism is strong in the Democrat Party!

 

Sanctioned Immorality

12 Wednesday Sep 2012

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Letter to Editor

It is now official. What so many have noticed long before this the Democrat Party now officially stands for that which is immoral. I am not speaking about taxes, immigration, Medicare, support for Israel, gun control, or things of this sort; I am speaking about two things in particular that are in direct opposition to God: same-sex marriage and abortion. Of course, abortion has been a hallmark for the democrats for a good while (page 52 on 2012 Democrat National Platform), but same-sex marriage is now a plank in the platform (page 53).

The other day I heard a political analyst dismiss the platform plank as insignificant. It is not insignificant when it becomes a plank in the party indicating that which will be promoted and defended. It is not insignificant when the Lord stands in direct opposition to these two platform planks and man, in all his wisdom, thumbs his nose up at His creator. It is not insignificant when people, who call themselves Christians, show more loyalty to a political party that spits in God’s face than they do His standard for decency.

There are a lot of conscientious democrats who call themselves Christian who won’t consider this insignificant at all and, thus, won’t be voting for a political party to whom they otherwise might be loyal.

Printed in the Herald and Review (Decatur, Illinois)

Abortion, Morality, and Civilization

09 Tuesday Nov 2010

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Recently, I wrote a letter to a local editor on the topic of abortion and law. One lady in the expanded area took strong exception to my letter and addressed my sentiments in the newspaper (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, November 8, 2010, p. A-5). I was glad to see this; in my view, there needs to be a public debate about such issues (as there has been) for in this public discussion, persuasion can materialize.

Women have the right to make medical decision, we are told. This is true enough, but what is in view with this remark is that women have the right to kill innocent children. More than that, however, women should be given the right to make life and death choices. Note the following, “As long as a fetus is not viable outside the womb the woman’s rights comes first.” From the “moral” perspective of this one woman, life within the womb is not worth preserving if the woman carrying a child determines it not to be viable. From her letter, we learn that the standard of morality that supports this is called “autonomy.” The word means, self-governing or self-ruling. If each person is autonomous, does the child in the womb have the right to self-government? Not according to those who believe in killing innocent children!

Morality is either subjective (originates with man) or objective (originates in a source outside man). These are the only two possibilities. The former is associated with atheism and agnosticism, the latter with theism. Subjective morality is a standard that changes with time and people and, generally, liberals and progressives will align themselves here. It is this kind of morality that seeks to destroy innocent children, but this is under the guise of “reproductive choices” or “medical decisions.”

What is the difference between a child two months in the womb and a child two months outside the womb? Clearly, both are living – so, what is the difference between the two? If a child is killed outside the womb it is murder, if inside the womb it is choice. That’s a moral standard worth discarding! Some people identify this with a civilized society when, in fact, it is more aligned with barbarity.

Expanded remarks on a letter to the editor I submitted 11/9/2010

Abortion, Murder, and Law

22 Friday Oct 2010

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The lack consistency of liberal policy is manifested in a man guilty of attempted murder. The leading line (paragraph) of the story reads this way: “A father of six pleaded not guilty Wednesday to an attempted murder charge that accuses him of trying to force his girlfriend at gunpoint to have an abortion” (Journal-Gazette, D-1, October 21, 2010). If liberal, progressive ideology holds sway, there is no reason to charge this man with attempted murder. It surely must be the case that, according to liberals and progressives, the child in the womb is not a child (person) at all. The way they dispose of children with their support of a public policy such as abortion testifies to this. If they concede the child in the womb is a child, then perhaps it might be asked how they are any different than men like Adolf Hitler?!

This harsh analysis is the outcome of a disgraceful and even harsher public policy; in fact, let us call it evil. Decent, rational, people with a moral code higher than themselves have come to see the egregious lack of consistency in administering justice, but more than that, they have come to see abortion as a moral problem. Why make laws against that which is not immoral? The last paragraph (sentence) of the story reads, “At least 38 states including Ohio have so-called fetus homicide laws increasing penalties for crimes against pregnant women, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.”

Story prompting letter to editor is titled, “Ohioan pleads not guilty in gunpoint abortion case” (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, D-1, October 21, 2010)