Posted on 12/10/2009 2:19:28 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
I am a witness. I was there.
I was a college student in 1970 – 1974, when the professors, politicians, and protestors told me that our planet was running out of water and other natural resources, that the planet couldn’t sustain so many humans, and that within thirty years we would face a global hard freeze that would end life on earth.
I remember.
I was a college student in 1973, when Roe vs. Wade was passed, making abortion legal. The reasoning fit with the dire prediction of our imminent end. Since there were already too many inhabitants of earth, since humans were depleting all of earth’s resources, then reducing the population by getting rid of unwanted children via abortion made sense, and practicing artificial birth control to prevent pregnancy made even more sense, according to the professors, politicians and protestors.
Today, thirty-nine years later, I am a witness to the same dire prediction of our imminent end, but now we are told that we will burn instead of freeze. We haven’t run out of natural resources, but we have a huge hole in the population because we think we are doing somebody a favor by preventing or aborting the next generation. Pity the tens of millions of women who live with the consequence of their choice.
The professors, politicians and protestors have spoken with false authority. Their message has proven to be untrue, unreliable, unwise, and catastrophic for our planet and her family.
It’s my turn to predict.
I speak with authority. My message is true, reliable and wise. You do not know what will happen today, much less what will happen thirty years from now. You are alive today, and one day your earthly life will end. At that moment you will face the One who begins and ends life, and you will give account for every Today that you have lived. Don’t allow professors, politicians and protestors to derail you from the truth that you know in your core.
Do the right thing today,
Be wise in everything you think, do and say,
Every visible and invisible thing will pass away,
Only Truth will remain.
Linda Miller
Pauline, SC
She and I both would be pleased to receive any comments or reactions, and even more pleased if anybody would see fit to give it further circulation in any venue: Church or community publications social-network sites or your own family and friends.
And go ahead and include her name. She says, "My word is who I am."
Very true. More people need to know they will die someday.
Please thank Melinda for a well written and thoughtful essay.
Her wonderful homily at the end is inspiring.
God bless.
Here is exhibit A:
The Population Bomb was a best-selling book written by Paul R. Ehrlich in 1968. It warned of the mass starvation of humans in 1970's and 1980s due to overpopulation and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. The book also popularized the previously coined term, population bomb.
Early editions of The Population Bomb began with the statement:
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.
Unintended consequence....I don't think so.
Global warming bump...
one time off topic use of Honduras list - My sister wrote this.
one time ping from old Mrs Don-o ping list. My sister wrote this.
Yes, I never read The Population Bomb when it was published, because I didn’t want to give it the time of day, let alone add to the author’s royalties.
But you didn’t have to. The News Media were all over it for years, trying to make everyone feel bad for being human and simply living, let alone having children.
What a sad business that was.
And the snake oil salesmen who pushed it have a lot to answer for. A hundred pornographic novels would do less harm than a book like that. Going out with a gun and committing mass murder would do less harm than that.
What you said is the truth, Cicero. The grim truth.
I agree with these comments. I would also like to mention one more thing.
Over the last thirty years, we have seen something in the neighborhood of 40 million little human lives snuffed out. The vast majority of these children, would have been born black.
Why is it that I, an older white male, seem to be more concerned about this than any Black person I have ever heard address the issue of abortion on demand?
Slavery is decried constantly. Those specifically against the Black related genocidal aspects of abortion have a very small voice, myself and yes a few others I have seen address it over the decades.
Blacks have been overcome by Hispanics as the largest segment of minorities in our nation. Do we hear Jessie, Al, Harry, Nancy, and the other libtards lament this? No. Why not?
One’s mind can be forgiven for looking back to the 40s and 50s, and who stood in the way of civil rights for Blacks. It wasn’t Republicans. Is this a carry over of the same antics against Blacks back then?
It’s a question I don’t have an answer for. The possibility does trouble me considerably.
Republicans want the genocide to stop. They will be lucky to get 5% of the Black vote in the next general election.
Food for thought?
But it's "everybody." Girls and young women of all races, even in good Christian families, seek abortions because they're in college or in an entry-level job and don't want their accomplishments to get off-track or their lives to veer into unknown detours because of untimely childbearing. Or they abort because they don't want to bring shame to their godly, respectable parents via an unmarried pregnancy: a pastor's daughter once told me that.
And the global-crisis-population-is-bad crowd always has in the back of their minds that baby-rejection of the most cruel and bloody-handed sort is virtuous. It's "for the planet."
It's all based on lies.
God save us, God restore our souls!
BTTT
The leftish propensity to magnify or invent ecological problems, is a manifestation of the rebellion against God and His moral laws. By doing so one may ignore or justify personal iniquity (and we can do so likewise), as in making discarding a flip top criminal, while traditional personal morality is minimized or justified.
In addition, the liberal sees everyone who is incarcerated or poor as victims (unless of course they are conservative political prisoners) who are to be given wealth so as to be made equally rich as those are who have material wealth due to hard work, unless of course, said poor ppl insist upon working their way up by honest. These are marginalized, as are true commie type tyrants who oppress the poor (Kim Jung 2, Mugabe, etc.)
This “victims mentality” is fostered (and which began in Gen. 3:1-5), and such are encouraged to rebel against moral authority, while ecological issues become a religious cause, all in order to justify and build an alternative world in which Biblical morality does not exist, an Eden without God, a “workers paradise”. But which ends up being more like Hell than Heaven, as it is built upon resentment and envy, and anger against God and truth (which truth builds happy societies), and lust for power, pleasure, possessions - lusts which are implacable for long - and so they become more oppressive and harmful than even wrong landowners they once rebelled against were.
And even worse, having been deceived by the devil, who is the original envious rebel against moral authority, they miss (and could not enjoy anyway) the paradise which was benevolently purchased by Someone else, that of the Son of the God, thru His sinless shed blood!
He who needs nothing (Acts 17:25), but “spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” (Rom 8:32) May I give Him glory, now and forever.
I saw it coming in the ‘anti war’ protests and I saw it coming in the Berkley riots and now these animals are teaching our children and grand children from preschool through post grad school this anti God blather.
We continue to Pray every Sunday for your Ben and his military comrades...
BTTT
Good essay!
Spot on and eloquent. Considering the timeframe, she also witnessed the first earth day celebration of Lenin’s birthday.
I’d like to put that on my profile page.
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“I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.” — Maxine Waters |
I’m sure my sister would be pleased about that.
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