Posted on 08/06/2003 9:09:09 AM PDT by cpforlife.org
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:06:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I assume most people will say the leading cause of death in the African-American community is violent crime, cancer, AIDS or heart disease. The correct answer is abortion. The fact is that more African-American babies have been killed by abortion during the past 27 years than the total number of African-American deaths from all other causes combined.
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In 100 years the black leaders will probably blame whites and demand reparations for the abortions of blacks.
In reality most blacks are all for what wicked planned parenthood is doing.
The single most important thing we all can do is to teach our children about the sanctity of life, and of the personhood of the unborn citizen waiting to be born. Related to the first is for each of us to try to get the schools (Christian & private) in our particular areas to start teaching the truth about the unborn (that life begins at conception, your heart starts beating at about 20 days, etc.) It must be TAUGHT like any other subject REGULARLY from k-12 (appropriately, not mentioning abortion till after 5 grade or so)
If anyone here has tried changing the mind of an adult on this subject you know it is tough to impossible. With children that problem simply does not exist. Until Christian and private schools teach LIFE in a comprehensive way there simply will not be the numbers needed in the voting booth to change this culture of death, it is that simple. Without this, all other efforts, have for THIRTY YEARS, come up short.
Here are some excerpts from THE MISSING KEY OF THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT
THE POWER OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
We must start with being mindful that young children are naturally pro-life. Ask a young child who has a pregnant mother what is inside his mother's tummy, and he will likely respond that it is his baby brother or sister. It is so simple to a child. Truth usually is simple. Christian educators must work with this incredible advantage: That they have a captive audience of school students whose minds are open vessels for learning about the sanctity of life-from conception to natural death.
Among the current students who are in kindergarten through twelfth grade in the United States, over twelve million are in Protestant schools or Bible study, 6.8 million are in Catholic schools or Confraternity of Christian of Doctrine (CCD), and over one million are being home schooled. Imagine how different our culture would be if all of these children were to receive a Pro-Life education. These are monumental numbers that can no longer be ignored. The impact of these additional Pro-Life voters would be so tremendous, that the shift in our culture would be of historical proportions.
The spirit in the schools of one generation,
is the spirit in the Government of the next.
--Since the decision of Roe v. Wade, tens of millions of Christian school students could have received a Pro-Life education. This group would today constitute a huge voting block; and with them, the culture of death might have already been defeated.
The Pro-Life movement has worked tirelessly, attempting to change the hearts and minds of adults in the voting booth and in government. However, this is addressing the problem after the damage has been done. Simultaneously, children's hearts and minds are not being properly cultivated in the truth of the sanctity of life while in Christian school. The result is that Christian schools continue graduating more voters and future government leaders whose record of defending life is no better than the national average. This sad reality is made evident with every election (see below) and with every legislative session. This self-defeating cycle must stop, as it is one of the main underlying reasons why we have not yet ended the scourge of abortion and the growing tolerance of euthanasia.
Few would argue that it is much harder to change the minds of adults than it is to properly form the minds of children, especially in matters of morality. Only by finally addressing this problem and moving to correct it can we begin to change our culture and our laws. The very soul of our country is at stake. If the people of our nation remain uneducated, then change cannot occur.
Implementation of a comprehensive Pro-Life education program from kindergarten through twelfth grade will steadily increase the momentum of the Culture of Life. After receiving a Pro-Life education, Christians will place life as the preeminent factor in their vote. In turn, this will lead to the defeat of the culture of death. This program has nothing to do with sex education. Rather, it teaches about the sanctity of life at all stages of the human continuum, with particular emphasis on the time from conception to birth. This simple and easily implemented curriculum is truly a missing key in our movement, perhaps the most important missing component in our battle for the unborn-and the culture at large. Other strategies do not have this powerful capacity to effect such a change. We believe that this plan could substantially transform our culture to one that reveres all life and simultaneously advance the return of a Christian nation.
After 30 years of political battles, we have a culture sinking into deeper darkness and 42+ million dead by abortion. The sad reality is that the duration of the abortion holocaust is prolonged by Christians who vote for pro-abortion candidates. This can only end with a new generation of Christians fully educated on the sanctity of Life before birth. Politics alone has not succeeded. Education of school students is the key.
I love that quote.
The real problem or mistake that is the cause of not only the abortion tragedy, but many other ills we see is this:
Mistaken identity. Being bereft of understanding the nature of the soul, people identify only with the temporary shell - vehicle - body. They think life is an accidental, meaningless occurance, isolated in a vast accidental purposeless universe, that life is a chemical by product, with no meaining, purpose, no God in control. No one is the witness of their actions, no one hears prayers or sees their hearts, there are no reactions to anything they do. Heaven and hell are antiquated theories (fairy stories), "as you sow, so shall you reap" - the immutable law of karma - is fiction to most people. Therefore, in the few years a person thinks they will be alive, not seeing eternity stretching before them, they see immediate personal gratification and sensual and mental pleasure as the only goal in life.
Therefore, why not break all the old rules, if they are not based on Darwin's law of the fittest? Grab pleasure when you can, and if someone - a tiny unborn someone - gets in the way of enjoyment, there's no harm in getting rid of the obstacle. After all, humans - and animals - are just machines made of meat.
I don't see any hope unless people have spiritual renewal, individually and enough enough indidviduals that society is affected.
And I am not seeing this in a sectarian manner; some of you have read my posts on Vedic understanding of God.
As long as people are ignorant of the reality that the real self is an eternally existing soul, (jivatma in Sanskrit), and that we all have an eternal forgotten relationship of kinship and loving service with the Supreme Lord, not only will such evils as abortion and sodomy continue, I believe they will get worse, as they have been doing.
One more - orphanages. Newt was pilloried for saying it a few years ago. A well run orphanage would be millions of times better than abortion if adoptive parents can't be found. And with all the classified ads I see everywhere, with sad would-be parents unable to find a baby to adopt, I think adoption is a big answer, until society straightens itself out and premarital and meaningless sex is considered shameful again.
Black girls are less likely to be married, are more likely to be teenagers, and more likely to despair over not having the financial means to care for the child. All the counseling services in the inner city are provided by government funding, and these will all steer them to an abortion clinic.
Oh absolutely, this is one of the pro-abort type's standard arguments. But when you actually suggest to them these alternative solutions, that gets you the R label, too -- somehow, expecting people (minorities in particular) to conduct themselves above the level of copulating animals is "racist."
In true California fashion we wouldn't call it a tax at all, simply a 'users fee'. Gotta vote on taxes, fees can be enacted at the whim of the governor.
It's sad, and really quite bazarre, but the left wing side of the African American community keeps voting for these people who want them minimized each election day anyway! Their logic is hard to understand.
Well said. VERY well said.
But it's ok to support thousands of illegals that cross the border? I'd say save the babies, close the boarders.
"All children born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room is made for them by the deaths of grown persons. We should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavoring to impede, the operations of nature in producing this mortality.
Malthus' disciples believed if Western civilization were to survive, the physically unfit, the materially poor, the spiritually diseased, the racially inferior, and the mentally incompetent had to be suppressed and isolatedor even, perhaps, eliminated. His disciples felt the subtler and more scientific approaches of education, contraception, sterilization and abortion were more practical and acceptable ways to ease the pressures of the alleged overpopulation.
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