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Christians Have an Obligation to Reject Abortion, Vote Pro-Life
Life News ^ | November 1, 2024 | Brad Mattes

Posted on 11/01/2024 11:29:35 AM PDT by Morgana

We’re down to the final days of the presidential election. I can hear your whoops and hollers of joy from my keyboard! No doubt you’ve grown weary of non-stop campaign ads. We all have.

But this suffering is worth it if it would move every Christian to vote pro-life up and down the ballot. I often say I wouldn’t vote a dogcatcher into office unless he or she was pro-life. People usually snicker and roll their eyes, but my point is every politician climbs their own personal ladder to political success. That may be the school board, a member of the state legislature, or congress. Even the White House.

Look how fast Barack Obama rocketed into the Oval Office. He went from a community organizer to state Senate, to US Senate, to President of the United States.

In a majority of elections, voters will be met with a clear choice between good and evil. The evil of supporting unrestrained abortion until birth versus a candidate who will stand for life.

The tragic news is it’s estimated that 32 million Christians will not be voting and that is inexcusable.

If you have or will be voting, thank you! Please share this with any Christian friends, family members, coworkers, church family, or neighbors who plan to sit out this election. Your vote is a matter of life and death.

It is not possible to be a Christian and vote for evil. It is not possible to be a Christian and turn your back on millions of innocent preborn babies who depend upon us to elect candidates who will help us end this modern-day holocaust. If you don’t vote, that’s a vote for death to prevail.

Abortion should be the number one issue for voters. Without the right to life there are no rights. None.

God expects us to be good stewards of our vote and speaking for myself, I don’t want to stand before Him some day and say I took a pass when He gave me the opportunity to deliver children from slaughter and spare their parents from the often-inflicted physical and emotional horrors of abortion.

To those who say they can’t vote for the “lesser of two evils” remember that Jesus Christ is the only one capable of being the perfect candidate. I checked my sample ballot and He’s not on it.

Of course, candidates can be better human beings, but so can you. So can I.

Remember it was God himself who put King David into his royal robes. David was an adulterer and a murderer but God did mighty things through this sinful man. And he can do the same with flawed pro-life candidates. Men and women who are less than perfect but believe in the sanctity of life.

We Christians don’t have the luxury of sitting out this election. God expects more from us when He gives us a chance to reject evil in the voting booth. Deuteronomy 30:19 says, “This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a noted Lutheran minister who refused to remain silent as the Nazi were slaughtering Jews. He said, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

Well, I’m doing both. How about you?


TOPICS: Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; election; prolife

1 posted on 11/01/2024 11:29:35 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

I’m not sure what this person’s criteria is for judging someone ‘pro life’.

Is Trump pro life? And if not, is one ‘not a Christian’ if they vote for him?


2 posted on 11/01/2024 11:36:25 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Morgana

All God-fearing, Bible-based people must oppose sexual perversion and abortion at every opportunity.


3 posted on 11/01/2024 11:36:35 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to descalation of tho it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Well said.


4 posted on 11/01/2024 11:37:55 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Morgana

Remember that there are some politicians who will grab onto anything that might get them elected in a certain situation, even though that “something” might be absolutely morally wrong.


5 posted on 11/01/2024 11:40:11 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Jamestown1630
Is Trump pro life?

Strictly, no. He is, however, orders of magnitude less anti-life than Komrade Kamala.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish you had.

6 posted on 11/01/2024 11:42:32 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

The author doesn’t seem to really know what he wants his readers to do. On the one hand, he says “Abortion should be the number one issue for voters.”

But he also states that there is no ‘perfect’ candidate.

Abortion is certainly NOT the number one issue for many people, even when they are personally anti-abortion - and that does not make them ‘not Christian’.

The article is confusing and poorly thought-out.


7 posted on 11/01/2024 11:51:14 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
Is Trump pro life?

Not perfectly so, but still magnitudes better in this area than Kamala, who is solidly pro-death. Trump's greatest asset in this area is that he is a Constitutionalist and will try to appoint Constitutionalist judges who will tend to not invent a "right" to abortion or other chimeras not found in the Constitution.

8 posted on 11/01/2024 12:42:07 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: fidelis

It seems to me he’s already done that. But there are people here who aren’t satisfied with the end of Roe - they want a law enacted that makes abortion for any reason illegal nationwide.

Reading this article, I would suspect the author may be of that opinion, too.


9 posted on 11/01/2024 12:46:20 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Morgana

Whether or not “Christians Have an Obligation to Reject Abortion, Vote Pro-Life” (they do), the Left believes it has an even greater obligation to vote for abortion.


10 posted on 11/01/2024 4:21:42 PM PDT by nicollo (Remember when we had to close tags?)
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To: nicollo

Voting and supporting abortion is a mortal sin and one’s salvation is at stake.

Supporting the Democrat party that is rejecting God and His Commandments is not beneficial for one’s soul.

Four years or eternity?


11 posted on 11/01/2024 5:32:31 PM PDT by ADSUM ( )
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To: Morgana
A person who would refrain from voting when the country and our freedom are dangling by a thread just because neither candidate addresses the issue of abortion to their liking is either stupidly naive or brainwashed or both.

Abortion is horrible, but the destruction of ALL human rights by radical leftists is even worse. Not only will there be rampant abortion, there will be kinds of depravity we haven't even consider yet.

12 posted on 11/02/2024 2:43:29 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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To: NorthMountain

Well said.


13 posted on 11/02/2024 2:44:37 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Agreed. Abortion is NOT my number one concern


14 posted on 11/02/2024 6:13:46 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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