Formerly, Abortion is Murder,
and, before that, skyp (stop the killing of young people)
May, 2012, Vol. 10 No. 1
PO Box 7424, Reading, PA 19603
Phone, 484-706-4375
Web, skyp1.blogspot.com
Circulation, 236
John Dunkle, Editor
“Contraception” is Murder, a weak, pathetic response to baby
murder, is sent out at least once a month.
If the gestapo hasn’t jailed you for defending the innocent
realistically, you either have to tell me you want it or go to the
website. Faxes and emails are free but
snail-mail is free only for PFCs, $800 for others.
Because
I believe we should examine every legitimate means, including force, in our
attempt to protect those being tortured to death, I want to hear from people
who’ve been forceful and from those who defend them. I’d also like to hear from those who oppose
the use of force and call it violence
Prisoners for Christ:
1. Evans, Paul Ross 83230-180,
USP McCreary, P.O. Box 3000, Pine Knot,
KY 42635
2. Gibbons, Linda, Vanier WDC, 655 Martin St., P.O. Box 1040, Milton,
ON, Canada L9T 5E6
3. Grady, Francis Gerald #
040368, Outagamie Co Jail 5HLD03L, P.O. Box 1779, Appleton, WI 54912-1779
4. Griffin, Michael 310249,
5914 Jeff Ates Rd., Milton, FL 32583-0000
5. Jordi,
Stephen 70309-004, FCI P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute IN 47802 6/30
6. Knight,
Peter James, P.O. Box 376, Laverton,
Victoria, Australia
7. Kopp,
James 11761-055, USP Canaan, P.O. Box 300, 3057 Easton Tpk., Waymart, PA
18472
8. Little, David SJRCC, 930
Old Black River Road, Saint John, NB E2J 4T3
9. Moose, Justin 27494-057 FCI Talladega, P.O. Box 1000, Talladega, AL
35160
10. Mower, Donny Eugene 65828-097, FCI Terminal
Island, PO Box 3007, San Pedro, CA 90731
11.. Richardson,
Alonzo Lee 12898-021, CCM, 716 McDonough Blvd. SE, Atlanta, GA 30315
12. Roeder, Scott P. 65192, PO Box 2, Lansing Kansas 66043
13. Rogers, Bobby Joe 0202B, PO Box 17800, Pensacola, Florida 32522
14. Rudolph, Eric 18282-058 US
Pen. Max, Box 8500, Florence CO 81226-8500
15. Shannon, Rachelle 59755-065,
FCI Waseca, Unit A, P.O. Box 1731, Waseca, MN 56093 3/31
16. Waagner, Clayton Lee 17258-039, United
States Penitentiary, P.O. Box 1000, Lewisburg
PA 17837
I changed the name of the newsletter again because at this point even
“pro-choice” folks know abortion is murder but not even prolifers know “contraception”
is too – and causes hundreds of times the number of deaths, and leads directly
to the killing of the older guys.
Embryocide led to feticide, which led to
infanticide (something Obama supports, by the way), which is leading to senicide
(euthanasia), and will soon lead to other forms of legal homicide -- uxoricide,
parricide, modernicide, ambicide, sorocide, etc.
When
the “stronger” are permitted to kill the “weaker” because the latter are females,
or Irish, or Africans, or Jews, or young, or old, or sick, or of a different
religion, then civilians have turned into barbarians. We are now a nation of barbarians.
My favorite pro-death writer, Pat Richards of
the abortion.ws blog, knows this too. Of
course Pat tells himself he can’t figure out why some politicians like Santorum
are concerned about it:
“But the fact that they are even talking
about this issue boggles my mind, especially in light of the fact that 95% of
the Catholics in this country use birth control anyway – the Pope be damned.”
Pat’s right about the 95%. That’s why we Catholics
are mostly to blame for this on-going modern nightmare.
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The Catholic Bishops have formally
responded to the HHS mandate put forth by the Obama administration (see
attachment file). That mandate would seek to force churches, Christian business
owners and parachurch ministries to provide health insurance with free
"birth control" to their employees.
I realize we are not all Catholics and that the media continues to frame this as a "Catholic issue." It is not. It is a matter all Christians need to consider as hormonal "birth control" products do work at least some of the time by causing an early abortion. This occurs when a fertilized egg, an embryo, cannot travel through artificially thickened mucous, as well as when the embryo cannot implant with success because the products produce a hostile, deciduous endometrium.
I recommend reading Randy Alcorn's booklet, "Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortion?" You will find it online at http://www.epm.org/resources/2010/Feb/16/longer-condensation-does-birth-control-pill-cause-/ .
Please take the time to resist this mandate. If we do not resist at this stage, many will make sinful compromises in order to comply with the government. Others will be punished as they refuse to comply. Christians who choose to honor God and resist the mandate will face fines, loss of business licenses, even imprisonment somewhere down the road if they choose to maintain a business without government licensing in order to feed their families. We need to resist, both for those weak in the faith, as well as for those who will resist no matter that the government commands this.
I realize we are not all Catholics and that the media continues to frame this as a "Catholic issue." It is not. It is a matter all Christians need to consider as hormonal "birth control" products do work at least some of the time by causing an early abortion. This occurs when a fertilized egg, an embryo, cannot travel through artificially thickened mucous, as well as when the embryo cannot implant with success because the products produce a hostile, deciduous endometrium.
I recommend reading Randy Alcorn's booklet, "Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortion?" You will find it online at http://www.epm.org/resources/2010/Feb/16/longer-condensation-does-birth-control-pill-cause-/ .
Please take the time to resist this mandate. If we do not resist at this stage, many will make sinful compromises in order to comply with the government. Others will be punished as they refuse to comply. Christians who choose to honor God and resist the mandate will face fines, loss of business licenses, even imprisonment somewhere down the road if they choose to maintain a business without government licensing in order to feed their families. We need to resist, both for those weak in the faith, as well as for those who will resist no matter that the government commands this.
Catherine Ramey, M.Div.
Here
are Al’s comments on passages from the last newsletter, April 2.
I’ve bracketed the passages:
You
wrote:
[I got kicked out of “Pro-Life Berks” for
advocating self-defense. So I went off on my own.]
That's because they do not believe the unborn
child has a right to defend herself.
They condemn the "Silent Scream"
victim for struggling against the suction tube. . . .
The inhumanity that issues from baronies
within the right-to-life movement is well known: the craziness of a crusade
against birth control; the view of women as second-class citizens; even the
descent into bomb-throwing madness. The insistence that an unborn child must
always be saved, no matter the cost, isn't compassion but a compassionate mask,
and it obscures a face of cruelty.
The "craziness of a crusade against
birth control" was the standard position of almost all of Christendom
until 1853 when the Catholic Church first approved birth control: scheduled
abstinence or the rhythm method. Most more enlightened non-Christian religions
are opposed at least to some degree to abortion. Hinduism: "bad
karma." Mohammedanism forbids abortion after 120 days gestation.
As "birth control" takes in all
methods from abstinence to abortion, what is so "crazy"?
How does trying to protect women from being
pressured into killing their children make them "second-class
citizens"? A number of the early suffragettes were vehemently opposed to
abortion as they saw it not only as murdering the child but victimizing the
mother: Susan B. Anthony for one.
Find ONE pro-lifer/anti-abortionist who has
ever thrown a bomb.
Out of millions of pro-life/anti-abortion
activists only a tiny number have ever even so much as physically attacked an
abortuary. A few have set fires but none of them with firebombs. I can recall
only one explosive bomb ever used against an abortuary.
I have never encountered a single
pro-lifer/anti-abortionist who "insist[s] that an unborn child must always
be saved, no matter the cost."
[I’ve never heard of our almost hero, Daniel
Ware, and googling him didn‘t answer much.]
I know Daniel. He has visited and stayed with
us. I haven't seen or heard from or of him in 15 years. We met him at the Paul
Hill railroading in Pensacola in 1994.
[“If someone is raped by her father and
becomes pregnant (etc.), is Scott going to foot the bill for the child’s
upbringing and care?”]
No. The rapist is responsible. Rent him out
as a slave and force him to work to pay.
That aside, there are many organizations that
will help or entirely provide for the mother and child in such circumstances.
I saved a young woman from a further
pistol-whipping, robbery and rape in 1980. As I saved her from further abuse,
and perhaps saved her life, am I responsible for taking care of her?
[The device, a bottle containing gasoline,
was the source of a fire, which extinguished itself before emergency personnel
arrived. The fire reportedly caused minimal damage.]
He didn't know how to make a Molotov
cocktail. . . .
I’m omitting the four paragraphs where Al tells us how to make one.
The preceding is only for your entertainment.
"Don't attempt this at home." It's OK, righteous even, for government
to drop or pour this stuff on "The Enemy" but if you use it on the
facilities of mass murderers who have murdered more Americans than have been
killed (both Americans and "The Enemy") by US war actions, you are an
Enemy of the People, and probably, in Flippo Benham's opinion, even an
"Enemy of the Cross."
Former Sen. Rick Santorum said in a
statement, “While we can and should work to defund Planned Parenthood and push
back against government mandates that force Americans and religious institution
to violate their faith, violence against our fellow citizens has no place in a
freedom-loving America.”
And just how does he think abortionists and
their accomplices will be stopped? Just send them letters in the mail asking
them pwetty pwease to stop killing babies?
Oh - it's OK for "gummint" to use
force against criminals but self-defense and defense of the innocent isn't if
you don't have a badge?
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Uh oh,
looks as if Planned Parenthood has
entrapped Ricky as well as Chris. This PP
memo, sent to mill managers a while after Paul Hill’s execution, turned up
recently:
Please note the following:
1. Have no interaction whatsoever with
protesters at your clinics. If you have
to pass by them as you arrive or leave, act as if they are not there.
2. We must stop other anti-choicers from imitating
Hill. If the numbers are accurate about
the medical professionals who have left or are now avoiding our branch of
medicine, we are being seriously threatened.
Remember, persuading doctors to enter the field has always been our most
difficult task.
3. To accomplish this we must repeat again and
again that what Hill did was violent and violence has no place in the
“pro-life” movement, and we must work hard to get the antis to embrace this
belief.
Well-known anti-choicers should be targeted. We have already persuaded a popular
politician, Chris Smith from New Jersey, and a popular leader, Jack Wilke from
Washington, to focus their ire more on
the “Paul Hill Types” than on us. Persuading
other “prolifers” to join them is a top priority (see #5).
4. Another difficult task we have is to keep our
clinics “insurance viable.” If the
insurance companies decide that we are too risky to insure, we will be out of
business. We must try to keep hidden our
vulnerability here, and we must tie in clinic vandalism with Hill-type murder. When fires are set, stink-bombs exploded,
windows broken, paint splattered, and so on, we must “scream bloody murder,”
and we must persuade anti-choicers to join us in our outrage. We must help those antis who have adopted the
“loving, peaceful, lawful” mantra to grow even stronger and maintain their
leadership positions among the anti-choicers.
5. An excellent way of controlling the
anti-choice movement and weakening its ability to damage us is to use
spies. A good spy is able to gain the
confidence of the anti-choicers, get into a leadership position, and stop them
from being effective. For one thing,
the spy can determine who among the anti-choicers are the most threatening to
our business; then she can usually get rid of them by attacking them
publicly. Another way the spy can help
is by leading her followers away from an area where they might hurt us into an
area where they are less of a threat. A
third way is to cause division – concentrate on the Catholic rosary whenever
Protestants are around; persuade the “peaceful, prayerful, loving” antis to avoid those who think defensive
action is permissible; “stir the pot” to discourage mild anti-choicers from
joining a group where emotions run high; and do anything else to keep the group
from expanding.
A fourth way the spy is invaluable is with
her behavior towards our patients. We
want these women to experience comfort, relief, and satisfaction rather than
fear, anger, and regret. (Remember,
their experience shared, determines in large part the success of our business.)
The spy can best accomplish this by talking softly and encouragingly to our
customers and discouraging those who would upset them.
Spies do not come cheap but they are worth
their weight in gold. We now have
eighteen and we need seventeen more. If
you are interested, get back to us right away and we can talk strategy and
cost.
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Keeping
you up to date on my favorite pro-death blog, abortion.ws:
Me -- Reactionary Kate Ranieri’s
unreadable diatribe on the 4/25 abortion.ws blog attacks Joe, one of the
toughest guys I ever met. Unreadable or not, the illiterates over there will
love it as they love all hate-filled, pro-baby-killing posts. (The three literates
will probably say nothing.)
What I can’t figure out, though, is why Kate
is not afraid of tough guys but is scared to death of weak old me. Last Saturday she and two of her followers
were hurling insults at Joe until I walked around to that side of the building.
I’d hardly opened my mouth before Kate fled, pulling the acolytes with her.
Now I love illiterates. I spent my life
trying to make them literate, and sometimes succeeding. Maybe a couple of the abortion.ws ones can
visit the Allentown Women’s Center Saturday mornings to observe Kate’s strange
behavior and to learn from me. Nothing
but good could come of that and it might even make Kate liberal.
Pat
Richards -- Let’s clarify, John. Are you saying Kate was there and you
showed up and she saw you and she FLED? As if she saw you, was frightened and
ran away? C’mon, Johnny boy, is that what really happened?
Me – That’s
exactly what I’m saying, Pat. Kate might
use a different participle (repelled?); I’d love to hear her side of the story. But that is exactly what happened.
(These days I respond only to the featured post over at
abortion.ws. My other responses kept
getting erased. From now on I’ll use the newsletter here to
comment on comments.)
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I love
what Terry Hughes says here in this passage Mike Bray sent. The connection with baby killing is that all
these global warmists ultimately fall back on the argument that we have to
kill people to keep the earth from
getting overcrowded.
The following
is an excerpt from some ongoing casual email commentary from my friend, Terry
Hughes, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences and Climate Change, University of
Maine. Enjoy the perspective you don't hear from the scientists with an
ideology to grind.
Dear All:
Every time I comment on "man-caused" global warming, I include my rebuttal to those who insist it would be a catastrophe. So I will repeat my rebuttal once more. Global warming, man-caused or otherwise, would be a BLESSING. The population-control racists, almost always Liberal Progressives who embrace Darwin's view and the view of the 1902 Encyclopedia Britannica that Black people are subhuman compared to White people, but will no longer state that openly, insist that carbon dioxide is a "toxic" gas. Plants LOVE carbon dioxide. To plants it's what oxygen is to us. And WE depend on plants to survive. Plants don't depend on us. Agricultural production would SOAR with more atmospheric carbon dioxide. The climate warming it would facilitate would open the Arctic sea ice back from Arctic coastlines, opening the Northeast and Northwest Passages to the Orient, cutting shipping costs (distances) in half. Arctic permafrost would thaw, opening one-seventh of Earth's surface to petroleum, natural gas, coal, mineral, and agricultural development, with vast lands open for expansion of the human population and the cities, farms, and seaports they would build. And let's not forget the human potential for creativity that would be released. Liberal Progressives see people, especially non-White people, as mouths to feed not as minds to nurture. In Arctic and sub-Arctic latitudes, there could be TWO harvests per summer because of 18 to 24 hours of sunlight per day (photosynthesis for plants). Land opened by warming would be ten times land lost by rising sea level in the worst-case scenario of sea-level rise. And we don't even know if and how much sea level might rise.
The Liberal Progressive fear mongers have NO ANSWER to these points. That's why they brand us as troglodytes at best and hate-mongers at worst, when it is THEY who hurl these invectives at those who disagree with them. Two can play that game. I would like to read a sober SCIENTIFIC objection to the points I've made above.
Dear All:
Every time I comment on "man-caused" global warming, I include my rebuttal to those who insist it would be a catastrophe. So I will repeat my rebuttal once more. Global warming, man-caused or otherwise, would be a BLESSING. The population-control racists, almost always Liberal Progressives who embrace Darwin's view and the view of the 1902 Encyclopedia Britannica that Black people are subhuman compared to White people, but will no longer state that openly, insist that carbon dioxide is a "toxic" gas. Plants LOVE carbon dioxide. To plants it's what oxygen is to us. And WE depend on plants to survive. Plants don't depend on us. Agricultural production would SOAR with more atmospheric carbon dioxide. The climate warming it would facilitate would open the Arctic sea ice back from Arctic coastlines, opening the Northeast and Northwest Passages to the Orient, cutting shipping costs (distances) in half. Arctic permafrost would thaw, opening one-seventh of Earth's surface to petroleum, natural gas, coal, mineral, and agricultural development, with vast lands open for expansion of the human population and the cities, farms, and seaports they would build. And let's not forget the human potential for creativity that would be released. Liberal Progressives see people, especially non-White people, as mouths to feed not as minds to nurture. In Arctic and sub-Arctic latitudes, there could be TWO harvests per summer because of 18 to 24 hours of sunlight per day (photosynthesis for plants). Land opened by warming would be ten times land lost by rising sea level in the worst-case scenario of sea-level rise. And we don't even know if and how much sea level might rise.
The Liberal Progressive fear mongers have NO ANSWER to these points. That's why they brand us as troglodytes at best and hate-mongers at worst, when it is THEY who hurl these invectives at those who disagree with them. Two can play that game. I would like to read a sober SCIENTIFIC objection to the points I've made above.
I'm
waiting,
I’ll
just add that I’m old enough to have lived through the “evolution” excuse to
kill others as I am now living through “global warming” excuse. The argument then, endlessly repeated as now,
was “we’re just apes anyway, and animals kill other animals all the time.” But being simply animals, if true, might
benefit us, as Terry says global warming would, because most people love
animals.
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How Liberals Distort The English Language to Deceive and
Manipulate
by David L. Goetsch
Because they convey meaning, words can
powerful tools. Hence, they should be used with care. Like most tools, words
can be dangerous if used improperly. In fact, they can become weapons.
Depending on the intentions of the speaker, words can either inform and communicate
or deceive and manipulate. For two decades, liberal wordsmiths have been
distorting the English language to deceive and manipulate Americans. So why do
liberals find it necessary to distort the English language to deceive and
manipulate? The answer is simple: because many liberal beliefs, practices, and
policies are reprehensible to the American public. If these beliefs, practices,
and policies were called what they really are, Americans would rise up and
reject them.
One of the best
examples of how liberals distort the English language to deceive can be found
in what they call themselves: “progressives.” If the American
left is progressive, then what is progress? Is bankrupting the American economy
progress? Is using government entitlements to garner political support
progress? Is encouraging an entitlement mentality progress? Is promoting a
victim mentality progress? Is perpetuating racial strife progress? Is
transforming America’s public schools and colleges into leftist indoctrination
centers progress? If these things are considered progress, then the left is
certainly progressive. But if these are seen for what they really are, the left
should stop calling itself progressive and start calling itself destructive.
For another
example of how the left distorts the English language to deceive and manipulate
Americans, consider the term abortion. Abortion conjures up images that
liberals want to avoid at all costs, images of unborn children being brutally
torn apart in their mothers’ wombs. Not an image most people, including
liberals, would want to be associated with. Consequently, liberal wordsmiths
went looking for a different term, a term that would conjure up positive
images.
In the process,
abortion became choice, a term that not only distorts what actually
happens during an abortion, but turns the discussion away from killing babies
to supporting women’s rights. The new term was well chosen, particularly if
your purpose is to deceive. After all most people want to be in control of
their lives, to be able to make choices. Liberals want abortion to be about a
woman’s right to choose, but they don’t want to talk about what that choice
really means, nor do they want to admit that the unborn child has no say in the
choice.
Another example
of how liberals distort the English language to deceive and manipulate can be
seen in their use of the term gay instead of homosexual. The word
homosexual conjures up an image of sodomy, not a pleasant image. But the term
gay is different. It is synonymous with pleasant sounding terms such as happy,
joyful, cheerful, and glad. The fact that homosexuality is sodomy is not
changed by giving it a nicer sounding name. But liberals understand that if you
tell a lie often enough for long enough, people will come to accept it. This is
exactly what is happening in America
today with regard to homosexuality.
A practice that
was once considered so reprehensible to American society that its proponents
had to stay in the closet is now widely accepted. In fact, homosexuals have
made substantial inroads during the Obama administration. They may now openly
display their sexual preferences while serving in the military and, in a
growing number of instances, may even marry.
To see just how
successful the left has been in distorting the English language to manipulate
public opinion on this issue, just ask yourself this question: When was the
last time you heard a journalist use the term “homosexual”? In fact, when was
the last time you heard anyone use the term? Rather, the term “gay” has gained
almost universal acceptance. Even those who oppose homosexuality typically use
the term “gay.”
Adopting the very
terms used to manipulate you, is a sure sign that the other side is winning the
battle. In other words, when conservatives allow liberals to dictate the words
that will be used to describe controversial socio-cultural practices such as
homosexuality, they are ceding ground on an important battlefield in America’s
culture war. Words have meaning. As such they can be either useful tools or
powerful weapons. The left has chosen to use them as weapons, and they are wielding
these weapons with great effect.
But there remains one inescapable fact the left cannot overcome in
waging a culture war against conservative and Christian principles. If liberals
cannot call the practices they favor by their real names, they are making a
tacit admission that these practices are wrong. If these practices were right,
liberals would be proud of them and would call them what they really are.
Neal Horsley and his enemies are on the
warpath again. The topic here is the
prolife use of force. I’ve selected a
few of their exchanges you might find interesting:
Neal,
The babies need to be defended from being murdered. The message of the
gospel is irrelevant to their defense, exactly as it would be if I saw your
child being abducted by a child molester and I responded by quoting John 3:16.
Many Christians in antebellum South likewise responded to the "niggers'" need for political action that would abolish slavery by idiotically reiterating the message of the Gospel; instead of giving them what they NEEDED: equal legal status with non-niggers. The babies are in this way the new niggers. Their cruel slaveholders need to be FORCED TO LET THEM go, whether they voluntarily yield to the gospel or not.
Jonathon, This is why Neal reasonably referred to you as a moron. Only a fool would suggest that evil people killing innocent people need only be responded to with the Gospel message to the exclusion of political and defensive force. You don't apply this standard to your own sweet ass or the needs of those you love. This calloused, sanctimonious moronic response is why the babies continue dying legally. Satan would've loved to've pulled this scenario off centuries of Christian history ago, but he had to patiently wait for this moronic generation to grace the scene. Unless you repent, you won't like Jesus when you meet Him.
Many Christians in antebellum South likewise responded to the "niggers'" need for political action that would abolish slavery by idiotically reiterating the message of the Gospel; instead of giving them what they NEEDED: equal legal status with non-niggers. The babies are in this way the new niggers. Their cruel slaveholders need to be FORCED TO LET THEM go, whether they voluntarily yield to the gospel or not.
Jonathon, This is why Neal reasonably referred to you as a moron. Only a fool would suggest that evil people killing innocent people need only be responded to with the Gospel message to the exclusion of political and defensive force. You don't apply this standard to your own sweet ass or the needs of those you love. This calloused, sanctimonious moronic response is why the babies continue dying legally. Satan would've loved to've pulled this scenario off centuries of Christian history ago, but he had to patiently wait for this moronic generation to grace the scene. Unless you repent, you won't like Jesus when you meet Him.
Enemy,
Do you suggest that the savage killing of 620,000 men in the civil war
was right and justified? On what grounds in the Gospel do we kill hundreds of
thousands of people to force slavery to end? Talk about unclear on the concept.
In your email, you say, "Only a fool would suggest that evil people killing innocent people need only be responded to with the Gospel message to the exclusion of political and defensive force." The North invaded the south, so the defenders of slavery were also the defenders of their land and homes against that aggression. Your analogy completely breaks down.
We do need better defensive action, but not violence. What if a thousand persons were densely packed around the baby butcher's premises. They could not do business, and there are not enough cops and jails to haul them all off to.
Jonathon, The failure is not our unwillingness to use violence, but our thin numbers inadequate to do effective non-violent action. If thousands were packed around the killing center, that would be defensive action, not the Gospel message. If Christians had given the black people defensive action, God wouldn't have turned the whole nation over to the punitive slaughter that was the war between the states. There is a sense in which everything true Christians do, including service in the ministry of the law, is an organic outgrowth of the gospel message. But the ministry of the law, whether performed by a Christian or not, applies equally to all people who are lawbreakers whether or not they reject the gospel. And yes, when necessary, it involves violence.
In your email, you say, "Only a fool would suggest that evil people killing innocent people need only be responded to with the Gospel message to the exclusion of political and defensive force." The North invaded the south, so the defenders of slavery were also the defenders of their land and homes against that aggression. Your analogy completely breaks down.
We do need better defensive action, but not violence. What if a thousand persons were densely packed around the baby butcher's premises. They could not do business, and there are not enough cops and jails to haul them all off to.
Jonathon, The failure is not our unwillingness to use violence, but our thin numbers inadequate to do effective non-violent action. If thousands were packed around the killing center, that would be defensive action, not the Gospel message. If Christians had given the black people defensive action, God wouldn't have turned the whole nation over to the punitive slaughter that was the war between the states. There is a sense in which everything true Christians do, including service in the ministry of the law, is an organic outgrowth of the gospel message. But the ministry of the law, whether performed by a Christian or not, applies equally to all people who are lawbreakers whether or not they reject the gospel. And yes, when necessary, it involves violence.
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I’ve been visiting the homes of the baby
killers with my A KILLER LIVES HERE
sign since 1970. The latest, whom I plan to visit on May 20, is Jimmy Anasti. Jimmy’s been killing people for about a half
year now at the Planned Parenthood mill here in Reading. Occasionally I get
nasty phone calls and vile, anonymous letters and emails. A few, though, are like this:
Dear John, Several of my neighbors received a copy of
your letter expressing your concern about a neighbor of ours who is in the
medical profession and in his field performs legal abortions. I shared your
letter with members of our prayer and Bible study group last evening at our
church. We included you and our neighbor in our prayers.
Jesus tells us
"we are to love our neighbor as ourselves." He does not specify
anything about what that neighbor does. Can we show our Christian faith and
love for this doctor by harassing him and his family in their private residence
on a Sunday afternoon? In practicing what you suggest we would also be
harassing the neighbors who live next door.
Every member of
our group strongly oppose the killing of anyone - not only unborn babies. Can
we not find positive ways to express our concerns which may serve to convince
those who participate in the taking of human life? We can certainly pray for them and it does not
have to be in a public arena outside their place of operation or private home.
We can pray for the young women who are desperate enough to seek this answer to
an unwanted pregnancy. We can commit to working with Crisis Pregnancy Centers
to help young women choose to give unwanted children up for adoption and then
find good homes for these little ones. We can support young women who choose to
keep and raise this "formerly unwanted" child.
We would strongly
encourage you to reconsider your decision to invade our neighborhood on Sunday
afternoons seeking to embarrass or shame one of our neighbors by creating a
public scene in the guise of saving lives. We are a bit curious as to why you
chose this particular doctor and our neighborhood as a place to vent your zeal.
Sincerely,
____________
I emailed back:
Hi _________, Thanks so much for you May 3 letter about my
planned May 20 prayer vigil outside of Jimmy Anasti’s home on Powder Way. I didn’t open it till a minute ago because I
thought it was a dues request from a Mennonite Church around here that I
support.
You’ve offered a number of reasons why I
should not carry out the planned vigil.
I’ll respond to just one here; otherwise, we’d get bogged down: “Jesus
tells us ‘we are to love our neighbor as ourselves’. He does not specify anything about what that
neighbor does.”
Oh, but ________, he does! Some of his neighbors were desecrating the Temple
and he grabbed a weapon and attacked them (tough love)! Pulling the arms and legs off young people is
a lot worse than desecrating the Temple.
If he were walking around today, I wonder what Jesus would do to people like
Jimmy?
But thanks again for writing and, especially,
not anonymously. I’ve been doing this
for years and it’s very rare for an opponent to stand on her or his own two
feet.
I sent
this email the next day:
Now ____, let’s
look at paragraph 3 where you say that every member of your group strongly
opposes the killing of anyone - not only unborn babies.
Let’s assume,
then, that it again becomes legal to kill Jews.
You would, of course, oppose that.
You would pray for those who participate in killing them (but not near
their private homes nor places of operation). You would pray for those so desperate to get
rid of the unwanted that they have to resort to killing them. You would commit to working with Jewish Help
Centers to try to convince the potential killers to deport rather than
kill; you’d even go so far as to try to
get the Jews deported to nice places.
And, finally, you’d support those who find out that can live with Jews,
who don’t have to resort to killing them or deporting them.
Your heart, then,
____, would be in the right place. But
what about others who feel the same way you do but decide they should do other
things as well? Some like me decide that they should make their opposition
public. Others decide that the new
little Auschwitzes where the murders take place should be damaged, demolished
if possible. Still others decide that
the most effective way to save Jews is to stop their killers in their tracks
(see Paul Hill).
You might not
agree with any of these methods of opposing this new “German Holocaust,” ____,
but don’t you think you should let other prolifers have the freedom of
choice? Must you spend time opposing
their choices when the killers out there are still running wild?
Now here’s the
kicker: Jews are not legally being murdered again, unborn babies are. And make no mistake, if we continue to allow
the killers to have their way, Jews, or old folks, or Catholics, or the
disabled, or Mennonites, or some other group will be next on their list.
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Receipt
of this excellent missive notwithstanding, if you wish to be excluded from such
blessings in the future, simply advise me.
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