Posted on 12/01/2010 8:25:32 AM PST by markomalley
November 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Every once in a while, one stumbles upon a terrifying level of honesty among abortion supporters. Normally, the truth is something that refreshes us when we come upon it - not so in this realm.
Such is the nomenclature of what appears to be a moderately successful group dedicated solely to providing low-income women with abortion money, called the Lilith Fund.
The Texas-based group explains its name on its website as follows: “Lilith was the first woman created by God, as Adam’s wife and equal. Because Lilith refused to be subservient or submissive, she was sent away from Eden.”
This is a somewhat accurate presentation of Lilith’s bio; however, it’s certainly not the whole story. Here’s how the Hebrew legend, as first described in the Alphabet of Ben Sira of the 8th-10th century, ends: after Lilith flew away (and was not sent) from Eden, God punished her by dictating that one hundred of her own demon children would be killed each day. She responds by asserting her perpetual desire to sicken and kill newborn infants.
The abortion industry’s poster girl if ever there was one.
In fact, the primordial population control expert bears a significance far beyond Hebrew culture. The recognition of Lilith, Lilit, or Lilitu as a demoness of night or wind traces an etymological path through the earliest civilizations, believed first to appear as early as 4000 BC in Sumer. “Lilith” may even be mentioned in the Bible, Isaiah 34:14: after God has reduced Edom to an uninhabitable waste, “the lilith … find[s] for herself a place to rest” there. In Assyrian, Babylonian, and Greek mythology, Lilith emerged as a strong symbol of perverse barrenness, a desert-dwelling monster with breasts devoid of milk, that terrified nearby mothers by strangling and devouring their children.
Unsurprisingly, as Adam’s supposed original wife, Lilith is touted in Wiccan and occult circles to this day as the “first Eve” or “first mother” over and above Eve herself and the New Eve, Mary, whose selfless openness to life represents Lilith’s pure inverse.
In her Greco-Roman incarnation, Lilith (Lamia in Latin) was an even more fascinating - and insightful - symbol of the total corruption of female fertility. There we learn the child-eating Lamia actually suffers unbearable grief from the sight of her own dead babies, a grief made eternal because Zeus had forced her eyes to remain open permanently. In a gesture of pity, Zeus allowed Lamia occasionally to find relief by pulling her eyeballs out of their sockets. (Well, that was nice.)
The bizarre myth, an uncanny portrait of post-abortive grief, echoes in testimonies from the women of Silent No More Awareness depicting decades of being torn with obsessive anguish over their lost little ones.
One might wonder what would possess the Lilith Fund to follow through with such a cheery mascot. On its Facebook page earlier this year, the group eerily invited fans to express their devotion to abortion by posting the phrase “I am meeting Lilith” as their status, “if you have had an abortion or know someone who’s had an abortion.”
The Fund notes that old Lil is today “the feminist icon of the free-spirited strong woman” - and in fact, the revoltingly barren, sex-crazed, child-killing monster has found favor in modern “feminist theology” as a symbol of rebellion against patriarchal repression. Other pro-abortion feminist organizations have snapped up the name as well. (One of several such blogs, The Lilith Plan, helps women self-abort and even provides gruesome instructions for an illegal do-it-yourself D&C abortion.)
It seems some abortioneers are at least honest enough to openly associate with the child-killing demon who is even more well-fed in our modern world than she was 6000 years ago. Even if relatively few, it’s a good reminder that some know exactly what it means to be “pro-choice.”
Actually...
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Dude was there the whole time.
Having to leave a soft existence is also a punishment, along with the curses...but I have known women that had no pain in childbirth, but that is not the norm...A friend told her husband she was going into labor and go next door to get the neighbor to assist...a few minutes later when he came back with the neighbor, she already had the baby...It was her fifth. She said she only felt a little pressure....
The curse of pain in childbirth does not always happen....just a little factoid...
This is certainly shocking (sarc/off)
I also know a woman who had little pain with half her kids. Seems to be a special blessing God gives some women.
Tell me, was it the upper half or the lower half of the kids that caused little pain?
Isaiah 34:14 (English Standard Version)
14 And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird[a] settles
and finds for herself a resting place.
Is a belief that is held to be self-evident to an individual, rational?
If the ‘kicking out’ of Adam and Eve was due to ‘growing up’, there’s be no original SIN, and thus, no need for Jesus.
I’d have to say that the view you put forth in post 16 is incorrect.
God is omnipotent to the point that He cannot violate His own nature.
He cannot lie, and He cannot create a contradiction or a logically false condition.
He cannot create square circles.
This is why free will cannot be consistent with totally obedient creatures.
You have posed this sophomoric question many times,
and never seem to understand (ie, accept) the answer.
Attempts to “allegorize” Genesis invariably lead to a denial of the need for Jesus’ atoning sacrifice. I think those behind perpetuating these attempts knows full well that that is the result and goal.
Then there is me that yelled give me the drugs. LOL :O)
Ba-dum-bum!
It was the last four of her eight children. And properly I should have said "little discomfort" because she had no pain and just felt pressure...enough pressure to know when to push.
When discussing this matter, I always think of Bill Cosby saying, "Then she reached out, grabbed my bottom lip and cried out, 'I...WANT...MORPHINE!!!" LOL!
It could have been worse. James McDonald mentioned in a radio sermon that one of his church members was passing a kidney stone when she went into labor. She reported that the pain from the stione was so bad that she barely noticed the pain of childbirth!
While you may believe she didn’t exist, I really don’t know if she existed or not.
I don’t recognize the version you referred to, but it does match the KJV, too. It is more vague in the Amplified, “...she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate.” That one dances around a bit. Not good that all the times I’ve read that passage, that I couldn’t remember it correctly!
Nope, Adam, you can’t pass the buck if you were standing right there, allowing the serpent to chit chat with your wife! Must’ve been a tad curious himself.
Those are just names, concepts that we humans use to understand things and communicate. Can He make something that is square round? Why not? All He has to do is move the sides of the square. He made water turn into wine didn’t He?
You say God must obey the rules He made? Can He change the rules, like having someone come back from the dead or ascend into heaven in bodily form? If He can do it once, why not twice, or why not something else that we believe are controlled by these rules, but just haven’t experienced yet?
Doesn’t the Declaration of Independence mention self-evidence? Is that not rational?
Self-evident based on the assumption of biblical principals, and therefor rational.
That’s because I don’t believe you.
You have no way of proving that God can or cannot do any of the things you mention, neither can I...that’s why it’s called belief and requires a leap of faith for some. You seem to think it’s knowledge, I don’t.
Not all people base their assumptions on biblical principals.
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