"You Shall Not Kill"

One of the mass readings today was taken from Ex 20:1-17.   They were the 10 commandments.    Most of us know what they are.   We have heard those hundreds of times and almost to a point where they almost fall on deaf ears.   Today was different for me.   While I heard them all one rang true and fell on my heart…  “You shall not kill.”  There is no ambiguity there.   No room for interpretation.   No guessing what God meant by that statement.   “YOU SHALL NOT KILL.” God was very clear about this.   Yet in this country we kill every day.    We have drug dealers killing drug dealers over turf.   We have men killing woman out of anger and/or jealous rages.   We have kids killing others due to whatever has twisted their minds.   We have taken this very plain, very simple, and very direct scripture and told God where he can shove it.   We have taken the sanctity of human life and thrown it out the window.

As a society if people kill, we say that we are going to apprehend the accused and bring them to justice.   If we capture them, we give them a trial.   If they are found guilty, we send them to jail.   Depending on the mitigating circumstances we let them back out after time is served to go about their way.  But we say that justice has been served and society has been made whole.   We do this all because killing is wrong.   It is an ill that has to be stomped out!   We cannot stand by and allow senseless murder to take place… yet we do it every day.   Not only do we allow it to occur with reckless abandon, we have even made it legal.  

 

Since Roe v. Wade over 57.6 million innocent souls have been terminated in the US due to abortion.   How does this compare to other tragedies in History:

• ·         9.6 times more babies killed due to abortion than people killed in Hitler’s concentration camps.
• ·         19,348 times more babies killed than innocent souls killed in the 9/11 attack.
• ·         48,937 times more babies killed than people killed at Pearl Harbor.
• ·         342,857 times more babies killed than people killed in the Oklahoma City Bombing

All of these events were tragedies.   All of them were avoidable losses of life.   All of these events were man made events that the American people demanded justice for.   Yet we allow multiple millions of children to be murdered every year in America’s hospitals, abortion mills, and Planned Parenthood clinics.   Very little outrage, very little protest, and very little even said about it anymore.   We have become conditioned in this country to say killing of innocent children is a woman’s acceptable choice.   Yet we didn’t stand by letting Hitler make a “choice” of who could live in his country.   No righteous indignation, no call for ending the practice, and no call for justice.  It has even become so bad that the Government even demands that abortifacients be made available in all health care plans no matter the religious beliefs of the business owners.

We as Americans have lost our spine.   We have lost our will to stand up for what is right.   We have become eunuchs who sit back and allow this tragedy to continue.    We do this because we cannot trample a woman’s “right” to reproductive health.    A farce and lie because an abortion is counter to a woman’s physical and mental health.   Yet we believe the lie and continue to allow this to happen.

I sit back no more.   I don’t keep my mouth shut any longer.   I will not stand against a decision that people make legitimately for a woman’s life, but I will stand against abortion on demand as a form of birth control.   No more will I stand silent in the shadows keeping my big mouth shut.   I run it about all sorts of things that are meaningless.   It is time that I stand up for what is right and let my voice be heard.   I am not sorry if it offends you.   I am not sorry because you shouldn’t be offended by truth.   You can argue back with me.   The unborn cannot stand up for themselves, so I will in my corner of the globe.    I challenge you who believe as I do to stand up and take up the cause of the unborn.

Mother Teresa said at the National Prayer Breakfast in February 1997 – “What is taking place in America is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another."

“You Shall not Kill.”  It is plain, simple, and true.  Not an option, not a choice, but a command.  

By the way… nearly 4,000 children were aborted worldwide during the time it took me to write this blog.