Posted on 07/23/2015 5:48:58 AM PDT by Gamecock
Oddly enough, it’s sometimes progressives who are most eager to move the culture backward.
As we reflect in horror at the utter callousness with which some persons and organizations speak of (not to mention crush) the tiniest humans, it’s worth remembering that the ancient world was unabashedly open to the killing of children. For starters, they had almost none of the sentimentality we have towards kids. There was no Disney, no summer camps, no play dates. Family life–even if there was such a thing–certainly did not revolve around children. In general, children, were useful at best, burdens at worst, and almost never coddled.
If there was one dominant fact regarding children in the ancient world it was their high mortality rates, especially among infants. Many newborns were stillborn or died in labor. Those who made it safely out of the womb often went hungry. There were too many mouths to feed and too little food. As a result, children were often abandoned, exposed to the elements, literally left on trash heaps to die. From 230 B.C. onward, the most common family in Greece was a one-child family. Families of four or five were rare. Some families might want two sons, but rarely would they want two daughters.
Unwanted children were disposed of, often sold into slavery. Others were aborted in the womb. Many more were simply killed as infants. Newborns were not considered part of the family until the father officially acknowledged them and received them into the house by religious ceremony. Consequently, ancient Greeks and Romans thought little of little babies and did not hesitate to get rid of them.
In the ancient world, it was uniquely the Jewish people who prohibited abortion and infanticide, the latter of which was not outlawed until Christianity took on a privileged place in the empire. Christians have always opposed killing children, whether infants outside the womb or infants inside the womb. The two were one and the same crime. “You shall not abort a child or commit infanticide,” commanded the Didache, a late first century church constitution of sorts. Despite the muddled arguments of progressive Christian groups and denominations (whose obfuscation with language is positively Orwellian), opposition to abortion and infanticide is not simply one position for Christians, it is the Christian position.
Jesus welcomed children when others wanted to push them away (Mark 10:13-16). He said the measure of our love for him would be measured by our love for children (Mark 9:36-37). He took the children in his arms as if to say, “Honor these little ones, and you honor me. Send them away because they are weak, socially insignificant, and bothersome, and you’ve demonstrated you don’t understand the values of the kingdom.”
As abortion is again in the public eye (though willfully ignored by major media outlets), let’s pray for our society to change its mind regarding the smallest and most helpless of its citizens. Let’s pray for the church to lead the way in protecting, honoring, and caring for children–not matter how unborn or unwanted. Let’s pray that every judge, politician, and doctor becomes convinced of the sanctity of unborn life and acts accordingly. Let’s pray for the flourishing of pregnancy centers and women’s clinics that provide an alternative to abortion. Let’s pray for the women contemplating such a tragic choice, and for the family members encouraging them in the wrong direction. Let’s pray for men to be men, to stop fooling around and to stop fleeing when they have. Let’s pray that hundreds of politicians, thousands of pastors, millions of would-be moms and dads, and 300 million hearts are gripped by a Jesus-inspired view of children.
Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world. Even the ones with an umbilical cord.
That right there is enough to mull over for a while.
Depends entirely on your definition of the words “progressive” and “backwards.”
Excellent.
I'm going to remember that one and use it.
When I was growing up, "play dates"--arranged appointments for children to get together and play--were unheard of. I thank God that I'm not a child growing up today.
I call them regressives.
The blood of the slaughtered innocents in our country cries out to God just as Abel’s blood did. God is slow to anger and has great forebearance, but a reckoning is coming due. We rightly emphasize the love and mercy of God, but we sometimes forget His wrath that Christ bore on our behalf. Those not covered by the Blood of Christ will soon experience that wrath. It will be terrible.
Progressives want us to go back to the days of warring race tribes, too. Progressives, mostly are dim witted tools of serious cultural marxists.
They have been working to undo our American culture where we love our country, children (especially our babies), families and faith for decades. They name good, evil and evil, good.
They could not turn us against capitalism in exchange for global economic Marxism because we had strong families as our safety net, knew right from wrong, and understood and enjoyed our constitutional freedoms and the government it established.
So they became termites, invading the arts, our legal system, our educational institutions and power structure; working to eat away at our culture so we would be miserable and isolated, sick and poor...in need of economic marxism.
Good article.
I believe when I used to listen to the song it was every where rather than of the world but other parts has also been changed for political correctness reasons.
The music comes from Tramp, Tramp, Tromp, the boys are marching which was published by George F. Root in 1864 about the hopes of the union prisoners.
There were also other songs which came from this song which includes “Damn, Damn, Damn the Filipinos”. and God Save Ireland,
Since you were interested I thought this also might be of interest..
Consequently, Western nations have regressed to their pagan roots.
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