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I believe life begins at conception and therefore, abortion is wrong.
But I also believe most wars are wrong.

I believe it's wrong to stand by while half a continent needlessly suffers and dies from AIDS. It's wrong to allow people in this country to die of easily curable illness because they have no health insurance. It's wrong to condemn children to lifelong poverty and waste their minds by denying them even the most basic education. It's wrong to allow corporate greed and influence to take precedence over fairness and generosity in the workplace, in the environment and in how we care for the most vulnerable in our nation and the world.

You can actually make the case that war is wrong. You can launch a searing indictment against America for doing too little about the dreadful death and suffering in Africa. You can chastise her for her greed - which greed permeates almost every aspect of our lives to some degree.

You cannot, cannot, cannot, however, hold these positions with any consistency while looking the other way while the little lives least deserving of death are thoughtlessly snuffed out for no better reason than another person's whim.

You have to subscribe to what I call the "poof" theory: At some arbitrary point along in her development, POOF! the entity suddenly becomes human. That, my friends, is anathema not only to morality, our religious convictions, and science, but to common sense.

I'm in a bit of a hurry to get out the door this morning, so I'll be "paraphrasing" some things... :-)

For the record, war is sanctioned by YHVH. He tells us NOT to "kill" in the 10 Commandments, but gave a direct command to the Israelites to kill ALL the inhabitants of the Land of Cannan. But then, He says that "vengence is Mine".

This is a big reson why the lost try and say that the Scriptures contradict themselves.

This seems confusing, but it's NOT. It's very, very simple. YHVH is SOVREIGN. All things work for the good of those who love Him. If He says do NOT kill...then don't kill. If He says go to war, then GO to war. If He says that vengence belongs to Him, DON'T take it for yourself! This issue is much more fundemental and personal than most people realize. In fact, Paul's letter to the church at Rome (specifically 7, 8 and 6:14) speak about this very matter of Yeshua's (Jesus') saving grace and indwelling of us by Ruach Hakodesh (Holy Spirit) as opposed to the limitedness of Torah (law, or "instruction").

The "poof theory?! That's GOOD! I never quite was able to verbalize it this way before, but that's exactly how a lot of people feel.

I have an analogy that use with people who support the murder of the unborn. It goes like this...

Down here in North Carolina, we're largely an agriculture state. If I plant 500 acres of seed corn, I can go over to the Agriculture office in Burlington, and purchase crop insurance. We've had some bad weather here the past several years, so this might be a wise and prudent thing....JUST in case I lose my crop before it's ready to harvest.

Now, let's say that we have another hurricane, and all 500 acres of my fields are swept away to the point of taking my seed corn with it.

I have suffered a total, and complete loss. All my investment for the seed, wear and tear on my equipment, my time and effort....gone.

Now I ask, should I be able to claim this as a loss for reimbursement from the insurance that I purchased? Of course you say!

But I ask WHY?! It wasn't really corn was it?! It was just seed! You don't mean to say that it was going to become CORN do you?!?

As if it was going to become something else! The idiocy of their thoughts regarding the unborn are very apparent with this story, and I've had more than one person get mad. Godless leftists always get mad when they realize they're wrong. That's a bad sign ya know. :-)

Sometimes, the light comes on, and they realize that unborn kids have less concern given for them than common corn, and I can tell that they are convicted in their hearts. GOOD! Maybe they'll act accordingly, but I usually never find out.

Now...I usually don't tell this to unbelievers, because by this point they're usually so bent out of shape that they want to be away from me, BUT..... I'm pretty sure that it was Jeremiah who quoted the Lord when he said,

"I knew you in your mother's womb before you were formed...".

Our nation is perched precariously. We are guilty as a nation of

1. The denial of Adonai (the Lord).
2. The abominable sin (homosexuality).
3. The murder of the unborn.

These three things have brought a lot of believers to their knees, and I "believe" have brought a reprieve to our nation for a time. But it is coming.