[Cicero]

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

--Deuteronomy 30:19

God gave the Jews a choice: Obey the Covenant and be blessed, or disobey it and be cursed. When they went astray they were punished with the Babylonian exile. Then because they repented a saving remnant was blessed by their return.

Christians have, essentially, the same choice as the Jews. Choose God and life, or reject God and choose death. It's an individual choice, but it's also a national choice.

Ours has in many ways been a chosen and a blessed land. More recently, however, our leaders and many of our people have fallen away. God has allowed the Culture of Death to prevail for 30 years.

It would be presumptuous to imagine that He will allow it to prevail forever without withdrawing His favor.

[Lexinom]

You could take it back further than 30 years, which marks duration of abortionism in the United States. Look at atheistic cultures - China, the USSR - and pantheistic ones - Nazi Germany. All believed man was merely some sort of animal, and while the former believed (and believe) in the survival of society as man's chief and highest end, the Nazis believed and tried to implement survival of favored races. Both systems are evil and based on a hatred of God, Christianity, and their implications. There is support for the theory that Karl Marx himself was a Satanist.

Marxism is where we're headed, and all of these things - hatred of God, evolutionism, and devaluation of life, are intricately tied together:

* Darwinism (and other evolutionary theories to try to explain our existence without God) are put forth as "science" in our schools though they have not one single iota of scientific proof to support them. Thus they embrace support theories like Lyells' uniformitarianism. These theories are put forth as fact, since the alternative is based on "myth and superstition" from the "dark ages". The real reason: They don't want it to be true because they wish to live as they please without fear of divine retribution.

* Since man is just an animal, sexual promiscuity is portrayed as normal and even healthy. So is perversion - there's no God and therefore no absolute standard on which to judge anything perverse. (Of course, there's also, accordning to a consistent application of that worldview, no basis for transcendent truth, for the laws of logic or even mathematics. Is the number "1" an idea invented by man?)

* Abortionism is man's solution to problems resulting from the foregoing.

* Again, because man is just an animal and there is no God, quality of life supercedes sanctity of life. The elderly, the Terri Schiavos, and the mentally and physically handicapped are next on the chopping block: they are an inconvenience to other, healthier animals and an impediment to "group survival".

* What is most amazing: those opposed to God must borrow from Him the laws of logic to make their case against Him.

Be comforted, because in the end good will triumph over evil. Those who mock will be silenced. Those who kill with impunity will be shown for what they are. Those who call light darkness (the "Dark Ages") and darkness, light (the "Enlightenment), will be revealed as liars. God's Word and man's Divinely imprinted sense of justice all testify to this.

All of us must give an account before God, for every idle word spoken, for every secret deed, for every impure thought. And no, none of us are innocent, and that is the basis for the Gospel of grace.