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.”
And I missed it where you explained whether the verses I cited were in the part of the Bible you believe or the part you reject.
I didn’t choose to avoid your question, it just got lost in the shuffle. However, your question sits on the premise that God runs a robot factory and that he programmed (for lack of a better word) Mohammed Atta before birth to hate and kill infidels. Since I reject that premise, answering the question is pointless.
***Things do not look good for Mr. Atta.
Do you know for sure this happens?
Absolutely!*** in response to ***So, when Mohammed Atta met God, did he hear God say, “You are a murderer of innocents” or did he hear “Oh good, you fulfilled your part in my plan?”** I said I wasn’t sure ***I do not know for sure, that is why I answered as I did.
I do not know that, but it is a common belief amongst many people that God is all-powerful and knows the past, present and future. I may be wrong, but that’s what I believe***
I’m really not clear on your 2nd para. I’m not familiar with those people.
3rd para - I do not know how or what kind of an answer you are looking for. Since I do not use the bible as a reference, it’s not possible for me to reference my answers to that, is it? I do not know if God actually said any of that.
4th - On the way God created me. I do not know why God does what He does.
5th - the closest thing I could call it is instinct, or my conscience. Put into us at our creation. Could be the soul. Not using the bible as a reference.
6th - could be. I certainly do not claim knowledge or that I am correct, just what I believe.
7th - if God wants me to know, I’m sure I will. A lot about God’s behavior is strange to me. I don’t dwell on it or worry about it.
8th - On this subject, I believe all any of us have, is an opinion.
9th - As I stated many times before, I certainly don’t tell anyone they are right or wrong. For all I know, we could all be right. God could probably pull that off, although to many it wouldn’t be rational or logical...as we know it.
10th - I’m not positing anything. I ask questions, and then we get to this point.
So can I just say answering you is pointless also? Without you saying I’m avoiding answering?
Of course a man’s path is a road to death. We are born, we live, we die. I don’t reject that, because I believe that God gives us each that path. The death it leads to, obviously is what was intended by God.
I’m pretty sure I provided an answer to the heart one.
Anything handled by men is as susceptible to being corrupted (by inaccuracy or otherwise) as is the soul of an individual. But the foundation of Holy Scripture is a different matter.
The information conveyed in the Holy Scriptures is ordered in many ways. One way is degree of significance.
For example, the truth of the existence of Moses or the virgin Birth are far more significant than the various details of the life of Absalom. Among the most significant Scriptural ideas are the Resurrection, and the presence of the Holy Spirit.
The point is that the most significant points of the Bible are the foundation of Christian doctrine, and they are the points most difficult for critics to refute.
A Bible which is both divinely inspired and merely contrived of the imaginings of men is a non-thing.
Like a square circle, or a married bachelor.
Where you stand on the Resurrection could completely eliminate the impact of any doubts regarding other parts of Christian doctrine.
Makes you wonder if God created women just ot piss off men!
I suppose it’ll be concluded this time around with a male human sacrifice.
“It is interesting to me that God did not drive out the woman from the garden, just the man:”
Considering the horror stories about divorce, where the woman gets the home and hte man gets the boot, sounds like Eve had a better lawyer before the ‘Judge” (ie. God) and kept the home! Makes sense to know where it all started, doesn’t it?
How do you know?
I do not believe anyone that has really been dead, has come back to life.
Sometimes, it truly looks that way.
I think it’s because they hate the one True God above all else.
Because I understand that we are subject to reality, and reality is absolute and fixed.
Meaning we can’t define something as other than itself.
Progressives suffer the misfortune of living in a chaotic world of relativism, so that a thing can be called P one day and Q the next.
Clearly, we’re not talking about just anyone.
Christ’s tomb was empty.
If you have a plausible explanation for this excluding Christ’s resurrection from the dead, I’d like to know what it is.
We can’t define something other than itself, but I believe God can. Since we both believe God exists, then His ability to do anything, is reality also. Isn’t it? We men just aren’t suppossed to understand some things..
Judging by a lot of comments on this and others threads, it would appear that a lot of people reference their beliefs on a religious tome of one faith or another. To me, this means that people’s faiths are relative to their reference. Our faiths are the ultimate relativisms.
Clearly
Of course not, no one has.
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