While
listening to The Coventry Carol at church yesterday, I pondered the
lyrics.
It's a lullaby (based on Matthew 2:18) to all the male babies throughout the kingdom aged two and under whom King Herod had massacred after he discovered the Messiah had been born.
So I asked, "What would enable and drive a man to commit such an atrocity?"
Here are three reasons:
Their recent advertising campaigns have sought to remove the stigma of abortion-on-demand (abortion for convenience purposes only). Since science has blown holes all through their previous argument that it's not a baby, just a clump of cells like a tumor invading your body, they now have to make killing innocent babies seem less horrible. So after their previous #ShoutYourAbortion campaign, they are now launching a new ad campaign in which PPF CEO Cecile Richards talks about her own abortion of convenience as if it was no big deal. They want you to believe that your CONVENIENCE is more important than an innocent child's LIFE! Our culture has been working with PPF to sear the human conscience for decades. Whether in the womb, on life support, or in old age, our culture has been trying to deny the sanctity of human life so they can pursue their own selfish desires. Our progressive cultures strives to deaden the moral conviction and awareness of eternity which God has placed inside each human heart. (Ecc. 3:11)
The majority of PPF's clients and/or target audience are youth as young as 10. Much of their lobbying work and propaganda over the past decade or more have pushed for the "Sexual Rights of the Child" and for increased privacy laws. The goals are two-fold: encourage more risky sexual behavior among children at younger ages when they are too young to understand God's design for sex and too irresponsible to use contraceptives correctly, and keep parents completely out of the loop. Without the shelter and guidance of their parents, children and young teens feel much more desperate and afraid. So they go to their guidance counselors who often send them directly to PPF centers for abortions without parental consent, or they go to PPF on their own because they remember seeing them in their schools teaching a morally bankrupt version of "sex education". Once these girls walk into PPF clinics, PPF "counselors" use fear tactics to pressure them into an abortion. They convince these girls there is no other option by failing to provide any other alternatives and by giving them all these worst-case scenarios while failing to inform them of the physical and emotional risks of abortion. They push girls through the abortion mill quickly before they have a chance to back out (as if they were ever given a choice) by using fear as the primary catalyst.
The Rights of the Child propaganda seeks to convince young people that they are the ones who should have control over their lives and over their bodies (and that their parents need not know or interfere) despite how naturally immature, irresponsible, and naive most kids are at that age. They have even lobbied to have children sit on government boards making decisions about reproductive health...as if kids have a clue at that age. Power and control are the candy they dole out to children to win their favor and lure them in.
For their older clients, they argue that abortion will give them more control over their own lives and more power to pursue their dreams. Such flimsy arguments are completely self-centered, one-sided, and short sighted. Children are a blessing not a curse. PPF argues that it's okay to kill all the children in the land like Herod did except they focus on the children who are still in the womb (or who were born alive following a botched abortion) so as not to interfere with women's careers or immediate goals. They justify abortion because they think it will keep them on the throne of their self-centered lives. But the truth is that we are not in control of our lives; God is. And if we try to live it outside of his plans and purposes, we will live an empty, lonely, miserable existence that may give us lots of worldly things, but it will not give us anything that truly matters or lasts forever.
So this Christmas, if and when we hear the Coventry Carol being sung, let us weep not only for the children Herold had slaughtered but also for the millions of babies butchered every year through abortion.
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For further information on Planned Parenthood's marketing strategies, visit these posts:
It's a lullaby (based on Matthew 2:18) to all the male babies throughout the kingdom aged two and under whom King Herod had massacred after he discovered the Messiah had been born.
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men. 17 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:*See also Jeremiah 31:15
18 “A voice was heard in Ramah,
weeping and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.” (Matthew 2:16-18)*
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| "Massacre of the Innocents" Credit: |
So I asked, "What would enable and drive a man to commit such an atrocity?"
Here are three reasons:
- A Seared Conscious
- Fear
- Lust for Power or Control
Their recent advertising campaigns have sought to remove the stigma of abortion-on-demand (abortion for convenience purposes only). Since science has blown holes all through their previous argument that it's not a baby, just a clump of cells like a tumor invading your body, they now have to make killing innocent babies seem less horrible. So after their previous #ShoutYourAbortion campaign, they are now launching a new ad campaign in which PPF CEO Cecile Richards talks about her own abortion of convenience as if it was no big deal. They want you to believe that your CONVENIENCE is more important than an innocent child's LIFE! Our culture has been working with PPF to sear the human conscience for decades. Whether in the womb, on life support, or in old age, our culture has been trying to deny the sanctity of human life so they can pursue their own selfish desires. Our progressive cultures strives to deaden the moral conviction and awareness of eternity which God has placed inside each human heart. (Ecc. 3:11)
The majority of PPF's clients and/or target audience are youth as young as 10. Much of their lobbying work and propaganda over the past decade or more have pushed for the "Sexual Rights of the Child" and for increased privacy laws. The goals are two-fold: encourage more risky sexual behavior among children at younger ages when they are too young to understand God's design for sex and too irresponsible to use contraceptives correctly, and keep parents completely out of the loop. Without the shelter and guidance of their parents, children and young teens feel much more desperate and afraid. So they go to their guidance counselors who often send them directly to PPF centers for abortions without parental consent, or they go to PPF on their own because they remember seeing them in their schools teaching a morally bankrupt version of "sex education". Once these girls walk into PPF clinics, PPF "counselors" use fear tactics to pressure them into an abortion. They convince these girls there is no other option by failing to provide any other alternatives and by giving them all these worst-case scenarios while failing to inform them of the physical and emotional risks of abortion. They push girls through the abortion mill quickly before they have a chance to back out (as if they were ever given a choice) by using fear as the primary catalyst.
The Rights of the Child propaganda seeks to convince young people that they are the ones who should have control over their lives and over their bodies (and that their parents need not know or interfere) despite how naturally immature, irresponsible, and naive most kids are at that age. They have even lobbied to have children sit on government boards making decisions about reproductive health...as if kids have a clue at that age. Power and control are the candy they dole out to children to win their favor and lure them in.
For their older clients, they argue that abortion will give them more control over their own lives and more power to pursue their dreams. Such flimsy arguments are completely self-centered, one-sided, and short sighted. Children are a blessing not a curse. PPF argues that it's okay to kill all the children in the land like Herod did except they focus on the children who are still in the womb (or who were born alive following a botched abortion) so as not to interfere with women's careers or immediate goals. They justify abortion because they think it will keep them on the throne of their self-centered lives. But the truth is that we are not in control of our lives; God is. And if we try to live it outside of his plans and purposes, we will live an empty, lonely, miserable existence that may give us lots of worldly things, but it will not give us anything that truly matters or lasts forever.
So this Christmas, if and when we hear the Coventry Carol being sung, let us weep not only for the children Herold had slaughtered but also for the millions of babies butchered every year through abortion.
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Extra tidbit gleaned from The Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Khan:
When Isaac blessed Esau (after giving Jacob the greater blessing), he told him he would live by the sword and under the dominion of his brother Jacob. Furious, Esau plotted Jacob's death. Jacob's descendants became the Jewish people, Israel. Esau's descendants became the nation of Edom (the Idumeans). During the Roman Empire, an Idumean was appointed by the Romans to rule over Judea, and his name was Herod. And so the prophecy of the sword came to pass. Just as Esau plotted to kill Jacob, Herod plotted to kill the Messiah.
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