I had originally published this on another blog I had on August 1, 2007. It was titled Murder Our Babies, But Don't Mess With Our Dogs.
Michael Vick, the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, is an athletic superstar. Though he's not the most conventional quarterback the NFL has seen over the years, he is among the most popular. He's among the worst in the league when it comes to completion percentage, but is heads and shoulders above everyone when it comes to his speed when he runs. In the 2006 season he ran for over a thousand yards, a feat a lot of running backs don't do.
But recently Michael Vick's adoration has been almost completely abandoned when he was accused of being involved in dog fighting. He faces criminal charges of organizing, funding and gambling on the outcome of pitbull fights. If he is convicted he could face up to six years in prision. I've heard many other details, such as the way they dispose of the dogs that lose or are unable to fight anymore, but I won't go into it. The outrage of the media and the general public is overwhelming. He has been suspended by the NFL until his legal matters are resolved and some are talking about him not ever playing another game in his life again.
I understand people not liking cruelty to dogs when they hear about it. I like dogs a lot. You could probably say that I have had a kind of love for a few of them I've known in my life. It's just that it shocks me at the "moral" outrage that people are having over this particular story. I in no way condone the mistreatment of animals. I believe we are comissioned by God to take care of the lesser beings of creation (Genesis 1:26, 2:15). But it is a sad and telling sign of how depraved our thinking has become as a society when we place more value on a dog than a human life.
Since 1973, when Roe v. Wade was passed, there have been 48,589,993 abortions in the United States according to National Right to Life (www.nrlc.org). That is over 3,000 babies that are killed everyday in this country. 3,000 little babies, every single day. Murdered. And it is legal and even funded in a way by the Federal Government. There are even many different ways to murder your baby if you so choose. If you are promiscuous one evening and are worried that you might be pregnant you can go buy a pill the next morning that will destroy any embryo that may have been concieved. If you find out a little later, don't worry. Just go to your local abortion clinic and have them insert a tube that shreds your baby so much that he or she liquifies and then sucks it out into a bottle. If your baby is in it's second or third trimester, his or her skeletal systems and organs are too developed to be suctioned, so they have to reach in with forceps and pull them apart piece by piece. Or the recently banned partial birth abortion method, which is being fought to be re-enstated, had been an option for those who had a full-term baby. What they do is deliver all of the baby except the head and while the arms and legs are moving and kicking, the doctor reaches in and inserts siccors into the back of the head, pulls out the brains, then crushes the skull. He can't be charged with the murder of a child because it's the mother's choice when the baby is inside her. And this can happen to a child like this (my son the day he was born) without any consequence.
Just think: two babies can be at full term in the same hospital; one comes out with his umbilical cord around his neck and the doctors are scrambling to save his life and the other is on the next floor getting his skull crushed. All because of the choice of the mother. The one person whom God gives a baby to be in charge of loving and nurturing and caring for that baby is the mother and she is the one who murders him. Why is this not apalling to everyone? Why is this as socially acceptable as a routine mole removal, but if your convicted of dog fighting you can spend six years in jail? I have some ideas as of why, which I will write about in a different post, but the most basic and fundamental reason is because we are all utterly and totally corrupt and depraved. We don't have the ability to do good or think rightly, apart from God giving us His grace and a new heart and mind. All of us are in rebellion to God. We were created to bear His image and bring Him glory, but we have become His enemies and we have His wrath upon us.
"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness" Romans 1:18
Be sure of this: God will not turn a blind eye to what has been going on in medical buildings for the past three and a half decades. All the doctors, nurses, mothers and even fathers will be held accountable on the Day of Judgment. They will have to give an account of themselves. And so will I. All of us are guilty before God and deserving of eternal Hell.
Our only hope is at the Cross. Jesus Christ, God Himself, suffered and died on the cross as a payment for our sins. The punishment that God has decreed on all mankind for their wickedness and rebellion to His laws, He placed upon Himself. Then He rose from the dead, proving He is God and ascended into heaven, declaring His sovereign rule over all. So now, if we repent of our sins and turn to the Savior in faith, He will forgive all our sins and grant us eternal life.
"Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." John 3:36
The only hope I see to stopping the horror of abortion, besides going to war, is to do what Jesus commanded. If people get soundly saved, they will have correct morals, ethics and logic. And they will stop murdering their babies.
"Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." Matthew 28:19-20
For His Glory,
Adam
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