| I was sure that I was going to need professional help.
When I heard about those three young boys tossed into San Francisco Bay by their mother, I couldn't get past the image in my head of these helpless babes struggling in the cold sea water, panicking, flailing, gasping for their last breaths as water filled their lungs. Anguish choked me, and I didn't think I'd be able to stop crying. And I'm not yet ready to stop crying, even though the now almost-common horror of mothers drowning their children (Susan Smith, Andrea Yates, etc.) has probably lost its shock value on some people in this culture of ours that has made casual entertainment out of blood and gore games and movies. But should any of us really be surprised? Mothers have been throwing away their children at a blistering pace since Roe v. Wade: 3000 - 4000 preborn babes have been slaughtered every day since 1973. That is more than the total loss of life on 9/11 repeated every day every day every day for thirty-two years. (Well, maybe not on Sundays: perhaps Planned Parenthood closes its clinics' doors on the Sabbath-I don't know.) It thus seems only a natural sociological extension of abortion that cases of mothers murdering their born children would begin to occur and become increasingly regular. But mothers aren't the only ones to blame. The laws of the land have dehumanized the most innocent human beings, when they permit inconvenient "pregnancies" to be "terminated." The lingo of "choice," which has permeated the advertising industry, has dulled the brains and desensitized the hearts of Americans to the plight of the preborn. It seems that every other TV advertisement and billboard message tries to entice you to buy their product with the sleazy commercial come-on "You Have Choices." The hypocritical (not Hippocratic) medical establishment has used its technology and tools to carve up the bodies of children in (or partially-birthed from) their mothers' wombs in what can only be described as the most fiendish cruelty invented by mankind. These so-called abortion "doctors" know full-well what they're doing. Abortionist organizations that claim to champion "freedom" and "choice" have been corrupted by greed and covered in blood. Planned Parenthood's annual income is over three-quarters of a BILLION dollars, and their annual profit consistently runs in the tens of millions of dollars. Strange for a non-profit organization. They also receive close to a quarter of a BILLION dollars in taxpayer money each year. (These numbers are taken from their 2004 annual report.) On the other end of the spectrum, but no less responsible (for the battle is not against flesh and blood but against the spiritual forces of wickedness) are the churches-even many of the ones that have not abandoned the Gospel. A couple of times per week, we participate in our regular activities of Christianism, struggling to become about three percent more Christ-like, but failing to look much past the end of our noses and engage in regular and constant prayer to end our national sin. And, being a new father myself of a little boy--Joshua (which undoubtedly partially explains the sharp, unrelenting sadness that I feel for the loss of Taronta, Treyshun, and Joshua), I have saved the worst for last. You worthless fathers who fail to protect your preborn and born children, who put so many mothers in terrible financial and emotional positions, are a disease in this country. Let me give you deadbeat dads some advice: take a very heavy rock, tie it around your neck, and throw your OWNself into San Francisco Bay. (Harsh? Read Matthew 18:6.) I should-as my pastor told me when he gave me some helpful suggestions for a sermon that I was writing for a seminary class-end on a positive note. Well, I can't, not here, not today. Those three precious lives who were lost on October 19 in San Francisco Bay, and the thousand times that many who were snuffed out in abortion clinics that same day, are haunting me. Bob: October 22, 2005 |
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