Posted on 08/10/2007 10:34:35 AM PDT by wagglebee
the issue, if you want to address the seeming sleepiness of the movement, is more of a "spiritual leprosy" termed by Bob Sorge. it is when people, believers, become 'numb' to the pain of others and unable to act on what they see, in order to stop the problem. they are not asleep, as can they see it. they are awake but numb to the pain of the post-abortive. numb to the pain of killing an innocent baby. numb to the issue. these pictures will not remove that numbness and unify the movement, if that is the real motivation behind them. (I do not believe that IS the motivation.) from those who have this leprosy you will get these excuses for inactivity:
*My voice doesn't make a difference.
*This has been going on for 34 years, nothing will change it.
*I pray at home.
*We won't ever get a Pro-Life Supreme Court, so what is the point?
*Washington DC is so full of Dem's, we can't change a thing.
I am sure the list could go on and on. these pictures won't change those people. only a spiritual change will move them. prayers for revival going up! prayers for educating the Pro-Life movement through the TRUTH PROJECT so they understand what a REAL World-Life View is and means for their lives!
Awwwww! That’s great! With an “I’m not a Choice” caption.
If people knew it was wrong, then how come a million babies are murdered every year in this country?
What this all comes down to is that even people who pay lip-service to the pro-life cause haven’t really internalized the abject horror that is this holocaust, they may know it’s wrong, but they have neither grasped the magnitude nor the gruesome nature of it. That’s the only way I can explain the attitude of people who are more outraged by the fact certain pictures are displayed than they are by the horrors depicted in those pictures.
You want to really stop the display of these traumatizing pictures, how about stopping the gruesome acts that produced those horrific images? Then nobody would have to display them or be traumatized by them ever again.
Thanks so much for the advice.
That was about the size of my son.
I'm not sure why you would have drawn this conclusion from what I had written. I did not see a film in school that was "age appropriate for me".
We, at the time, lived next door to a family of Austrian Jewish people.
I saw the films of the bodies being bulldozed at one of the Nazi death camps on TV -- it was in connection with the arrest of Adolph Eichmann.
It affected me very greatly. Like your nephew, I had nightmares -- nightmare involving the family that lived next door to me. Nightmare involving the children in that family -- my playmates.
I asked my parents about those terrible pictures, and I remember one of the questions I asked -- "Why would anyone do that to people just because they were Jewish"?
I thought that what happened to the people in that terrible (and, for me, non-"age appropriate") film I had seen could happen to the nice Jewish family -- that lived next door.
As I said, though, I came through the horror that gripped me as a small child. Those films showed me the reality of evil, and convinced me that people should not be killed just because they are Jewish.
Perhaps your nephwe will grow out of his own horror, and ask why people would do such evil things "just because the baby hasn't been born yet".
How about post #8.
“To: wagglebee
I am against abortion.
I am horrified by it altogether.
I teach my children the horrors of it.”
It’s a miracle. :)
Your neighbors showed an eight year old child films of bodies being bulldozed?
I’m sorry you lost your childhood to them.
What an angel!!!!
Why not? They use scare tactics to keep kids off drugs. They use horrible pictures of sex disease to get kids to use condoms. Why should this be any different?
MEGoody: And you don't have the right to tell someone what they can paint on their own truck.
Actually, we do. Unless you want to allow xxx rated web sites to plaster trucks with graphic images of sex.
They are supposed to be offensive. But the pictures are reality and it does no good to bury your head in the sand and pretend that the reality of abortion is something esoteric and sterile.
These pictures would not be necessary if the MSM and the government told the truth about abortion. They portray it as something beautiful, a woman's right to control her future and her body. It is murder and what these trucks show is the evidence of the crime.
What isn't fair is the fact that the baby in that picture will never get an opportunity at life and the murderer will go free. Your Nephew will get over it. The baby in that picture never will.
Gotta say I tend to agree with you. Not every message is appropriate for every age. I have a problem with people shoving pictures of bloody dead bodies in the face of my 4 year old daughter.
>>If the images force a few callous pro-abortion types to have a change of heart, I’ll take the bad name. The German people didn’t become anti-Nazi until they were forced to tour the death camps and dig graves.<<
And if it causes a post abort mother to commit suicide, that’s okay too?
If it’s just “removing a clump of cells” than it should be offensive.
It explains a lot.
>>Why not? They use scare tactics to keep kids off drugs. They use horrible pictures of sex disease to get kids to use condoms. Why should this be any different?<<
Preschoolers? Hmmmmm. Like sex education for Kindergarteners?
They know they are killing a life! They try to ignore it, excuse it, etc. IF they didn't know it was wrong then why would we have so many post-abortives that struggle with it, with shame and guilt, and many who try to run from it for the rest of their lives through promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, self-mutilation, etc (unless they find forgiveness in Christ).
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