Abortion: a not-so-silent killer anymore

I read on AlbertMohler.com that The New York Times reported on January 6, 2011 that the abortion rate in New York City is about 40 percent of all pregnancies and almost 60% of African American pregnancies…insert time to double-take… That means on average, more than two of every five pregnant women in the world’s most recognizable city choose to kill their babies. This is by far the most tragic statistic I’ve probably ever read.

I recall a conversation wherein my dad described abortion as the most unnatural and inhumane action a parent could ever perform. What is more basic than a parent’s instinct to protect her young? That’s even the most fundamental intuition among animals, since the survival of one’s offspring is essential to a species. A parent’s choosing her own life (especially when it is some ridiculously trivial aspect of life, like career, for example) over the existence of her child, is backwards, inhumane, and ultimately completely depravedly selfish. In no other case does a law permit a “choice” to end another human being’s life without his or her consent.

In October 2010, Dr. Mohler blogged about Dr. Mildred Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from the Harvard Medical School, who was outspokenly against abortion and Roe v. Wade during her lifetime. She once summarized her sense of urgency to reverse the infamous case with these words: “I am at once a physician, a citizen and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow this concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged and the planned have the right to live.” In America, Planned Parenthood began because of the eugenics movement – the idea that people could breed a more superior race by preventing pregnancies and births of “less fit” the genes – a philosophy that had its roots in (though is also a distortion of) Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection, and a movement that was the basis of the Nazi Party’s practices in Germany.

Since abortion is the termination of an unwanted pregnancy, the real problem is, of course, adultery. People want to sin without consequences, so they try to kill and bury the consequence as if that itself will not have additional consequences.

That people can end the lives of their unborn children is unbelievable. That physicians who have taken an oath to “do no harm” can knowingly kill a living human being is unthinkable. That murder has been legalized by authorities who have sworn to protect the lives of citizens is deplorable. That the public has become desensitized to this wretched and foreboding practice is alarming.

What can we do to help those who are deceived into believing abortion is acceptable, or even the only way to “deal with” conceiving a child?

What you've all been waiting for... my rant on Joel

So I gave in to the temptation to watch Joel Osteen as I was getting ready for church. The practice has become routine, as our church service doesn't start till 11 and Joel comes on the tv at 9. I can't remember what the word is for a person's facination with what they abhor, but that word describes this Sunday morning ritual. I had never really known much about him or his teachings until a few months ago, but it didn't take long for me to start hurling household objects at our tv. As a huge fan of generalizations, I think I finally, today, put together why he is such a false teacher.

Let's see if I can make this make sense...

It comes as no surprise that Joel is part of the health/wealth/prosperity gospel craze, evidentally trying to instigate a resurge, since its era had fizzed due to all the scandals of Oral Roberts & co. Joel's daddy was huge in the movement, and, according to Joel, also boasted of no formal or seminary education.

I'm guessing that this is probably how all the health/wealth/prosperity gospel pastors opperated, but since I'm relatively young, it is baffling and attrocious. It occured to me today that what little from the Bible that Joel uses, he only uses as an allegory for how God wants us to be successful on earth. For example, a few weeks ago, he said that the virgin birth of Jesus means that we shouldn't let other men stand in our way, because Mary sure didn't let other men (or lack there-of) stand in the way of her dream. That is almost a direct quote! Now, asside from the fact that any moron could be fairly positive that having a baby outside of wedlock was NOT the dream of this good little Hebrew, what is missing here? A: What the birth of Christ actually means for history, prophesy, sinners, our understanding of God, HELLO?? He just used the prophesied virgin birth of the LORD of the universe to be a metaphor for how we should not let anyone get in the way of our debt (again, I'm almost quoting here), that we should let no one, not even our boss, get in the way of our promotion.

In today's "sermon", he so artfully related Jesus' experience on the cross and the few days before Galgotha to our times when we feel low. Jesus went through some pain, and so might we, but we just need to gut it out like He did was pretty much the message. He fell down when He was carrying His cross, and we might stumble too sometimes, but He had Simon to help Him out, and we'll have people to help us out too. oh how nice. And even when He was on the cross, He asked God to forgive those who had hurt Him, and we should do that too. And the best part is that He raised from the grave, just like he's going to raise us out of our debt/depression/low-paying job/flu/traffic jam/bad hair day. Isn't that wonderful???

Who had ever thought a sermon on Christ's sacrifice to pay for the sins of His chosen to satisfy a just God could be so "applicable" and completely meaningless. I can't believe that: 1)People actually listen to this yahoo, 2) He hasn't been struck by lightening yet, and 3)I didn't barf up my HoneyBunchesOfOats while watching this.

The fact that he makes so secular what is so sacred is completely appalling, that he makes people think that God is just an omnipresent genie that wants to make us happy in this life is so sickening, and that hundreds of thousands are led astray by his false teaching is so incredibly sad.