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Wednesday, June 11, 2003
In this relativistic, postmodern, post Christian era, it seems we are long since past any simple judgements based on good versus evil. During the past generation, there have been far too many lapses in even those obvious distinctions. As a result, today we are left with only the gray areas between evils and "lesser evils". One such area is the abortion issue. Abortion, apparently is the acceptable "lesser evil" we must tolerate as opposed to the evil of unwanted children. And, of course, the evil of abortion affords the risks involved with the "lesser evils" of sexual promiscuity, adultery, fornication, incest and rape. So that, today, infanticide fits comfortably within our definition of justice. Well did Isaiah write: "....and judgement is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off ...." (Is 59:14)
As a Christian, I can not condone the bombings of abortion "clinics"; even without any loss of life. However, while judgement is "turned away backward" and justice stands "afar off", millions of defenseless, innocent babies are being destroyed in the womb!
So, left as we are, with today's less "discriminating" standard of comparison between "evil" and "lesser evil",----Which, now, is the lesser evil ----destroying the brick and mortar of the "clinics" or the humanity being destroyed inside the "clinics"?
In the geopolitical realm, nations, as a last resort, do not hesitate to annihilate whole cities and any innocent bystanders in the name of whatever cause is believed to be right or just. Yet, morally outraged individuals, after patiently, yet futilely, appealing to a "evil vs lesser evil" "justice" system, are labeled "fanatical" when they come against the brick and mortar of infanticide!
Until the moral outrage against the "evil" of abortion rises to the level of, at least, moral sympathy for the cause of these "fanatics", the "evil" of abortion will remain. Oh that the German people would have come against those death camps!
I'm a little uneasy with the prospect that, in the view of the current Holocaust, will God's judgement fall on the activist or the idle?
As a Christian, I can not condone the bombings of abortion "clinics"; even without any loss of life. However, while judgement is "turned away backward" and justice stands "afar off", millions of defenseless, innocent babies are being destroyed in the womb!
So, left as we are, with today's less "discriminating" standard of comparison between "evil" and "lesser evil",----Which, now, is the lesser evil ----destroying the brick and mortar of the "clinics" or the humanity being destroyed inside the "clinics"?
In the geopolitical realm, nations, as a last resort, do not hesitate to annihilate whole cities and any innocent bystanders in the name of whatever cause is believed to be right or just. Yet, morally outraged individuals, after patiently, yet futilely, appealing to a "evil vs lesser evil" "justice" system, are labeled "fanatical" when they come against the brick and mortar of infanticide!
Until the moral outrage against the "evil" of abortion rises to the level of, at least, moral sympathy for the cause of these "fanatics", the "evil" of abortion will remain. Oh that the German people would have come against those death camps!
I'm a little uneasy with the prospect that, in the view of the current Holocaust, will God's judgement fall on the activist or the idle?
