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Words matter, especially names. For instance, the ability to call a person's name is evidence the person is actually known. The same holds true with legalized abortion. If we want to show people we actually know legalized abortion, we must call it by its proper name. But today we don't do that. Some call abortion murder, others say we shouldn't call it with such a harsh name, while others won't say anything about it at all.
People are clearly confused. Much of the confusion around legalized abortion can be traced to the fact that those who call legalized abortion murder have not been calling it by its proper name. The most accurate name for legalized abortion is War.
This is why War is more accurate than murder: Murder normally refers to homicides that have been declared illegal by the government. Speaking from the point of view of legal technicalities, murder cannot occur when a government gives its people permission to commit those particular homicides. Such government approved homicides are called either (1) war or (2) execution. Since execution is a homicide carried out after the person being executed has been granted an extended trial by law, execution does not fit the reality of legalized abortion. Therefore we are left with war.
War fits legalized abortion perfectly. A war occurs when a government gives its citizens permission to kill, slay, terminate, etc. , a specific person or group of people without offering those people the benefit of legal due process--trial by Jury, etc. The government of the United States of America has given the mothers of unborn children permission to kill their unborn babies at any moment the whim so moves the mother. Such a permission by government is exactly equivalent to the government declaring war on the unborn babies who are slaughtered.
If that is what has happened, then it must be reported to have happened. I so report: War has been declared by the government of the United States of America on unborn babies in every city and town in this nation. Since, as the Declaration of Independence clearly states, the government of the United States of America derives its authority from the consent of the governed, every citizen of this nation who is not presently in prison for resisting this war is giving his/her consent to the war and thereby actively collaborating with the prosecution of said war.
To deny the foregoing is to give evidence of what psychiatrists call "Denial," a mental illness carrying with it the gravest consequences for individuals and for societies. Since today the great majority denies the war being waged against unborn people by the government of the USA, future historians will look back on this period in history as a time of the "Great Insanity," or perhaps they will call it the "Time of Denial." In either case, we will be seen to have created a textbook example of mass social psychosis created by mass self-indulgence.
I am not opposed to people who call abortion murder; I understand why people do so, even though legalized abortion is actually war. When I call myself a murderer (as I do in another article), I base my word choice on a use of the word "murder" that presumes to view the event from God's point of view.
Some people are shocked that a human being would presume to speak as if a mere mortal can glimpse reality from God's point of view. Pople who have no firm access to God's point of view demonstrate they have no insight into the miracle of revelation, that gift whereby God reveals His point of view to mere mortals. But that's another subject. The point here is that in light of God's Special Revelation in Holy Scripture, I am fairly certain that God views abortion as murder because He knows the government of the USA has no right to declare war on unborn babies, no right to sanction their destruction under the circumstances presently facing the USA.
God knows the unborn babies have not declared war on the USA, nor do they pose a clear and present danger to the security of the USA. For people who know there is a person being slaughtered in legalized abortion, there is no valid reason they should not be called a murderer. If the trials and precedents of Nuremberg have a point, surely that is it: namely, even when a nation is at war, unjustified homicides can still be called murder.
Since I am a citizen of the USA and can claim no reason for my continuing collaboration with legalized abortion other than my desire to provide for myself and my family, I see no way to avoid calling myself a murderer, even though the government of this nation has declared war on unborn babies.
Certainly I do not want to be a murderer, but still I continue to collaborate with that which I must call either murder or war.
Why do I collaborate? Because I value my life, my freedom, and the lives and welfare of my family more than I do the lives of those children being slaughtered today, that's why. My conscience finds solace in the Bible's admonition to "provide for my own" but deep in my heart I suspect I am using God's Word to justify my personal cowardice. Given the present political context in this nation, the only way I could actually guarantee to stop the slaughter, even momentarily, would require violent interdiction of some variety, interdiction that would land me either in prison or dead.
Looking clearly at the meaning of my actions, I realize I am demonstrating a definition of "love" that is totally different from the definition of "love" revealed by my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I realize I am revealing a definition of "neighbor" that is diametrically opposed to the definition revealed in Christ Jesus. He loves people so much that He would value their lives above His own--He would die for them; He would cleanse the Temple for them. I understand that unless I confess this difference between my "love" and Jesus' "love", my life becomes a living lie and I am afraid I would lose access to my reason for continuing to live. Without this ability to confess the utter failure of my "love" to fulfill the Will of God, I would be utterly devoid of truthful witness, utterly without a valid ministry in this sin enslaved condition I presently find myself because I am a citizen of the USA. But because I can confess my sin--my collaboration with murder--I can still claim all the promises that God has extended to those who are in Christ Jesus and who confess their sins. I know that God knows I am doing everything I can think of to be delivered from this bondage to sin. Paramount among the things I can do is speak the truth in love. And this is the truth: if we the people of the United States of America are not murderers, it at least must be said that we have declared war on the least of God's children in the USA. In either case, God help us confess it and in repentance do whatever is required to...
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