Aug 22 2008
Christians Who Want To Murder Babies?
Matthew 25 Network
mission statement
The Matthew 25 Network is a community of Christians – Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, and Evangelical – inspired by the Gospel mandate to put our faith into action to care for our neighbor, especially the most vulnerable.The election of our public officials, and the politics they stand for, are a reflection of our core values. We believe that those elected to public office carry an important trust, as their decisions have a profound impact on our nation and our world.
We believe that people of faith should actively participate in the political process as an important avenue for social change. We are called by our faith to engage in the world as it is, while we seek after and hope for God’s Kingdom.
Therefore, while no elected official will be without flaw, we come together as individuals to support candidates for public office who share the values of the Matthew 25 Network: promoting life with dignity, caring for the least of these, strengthening and supporting families, stewardship of God’s Creation, working for peace and justice at home and abroad, and promoting the common good. (emphasis mine)
Sounds like something we can all get behind, right?
I want to call upon all Christians to actually vote in ways that will protect those who are most vulnerable: those children who our nation allows their own parents (with the help of licensed physicians, I might add) to murder while in the womb.
If you are a part of a church whose pastor is in the Matthew 25 Network, false shepherds who want to steal money from the rich in order to pay for, among other things, the murder of the unborn children of the poor, then you need to call on these leaders to repent.
May God have mercy on those who would lead so many astray.
Just wondering what your thoughts are on a Christian that votes for Obama – are you saying that they need to repent?
I know of a few that truly believe the same thing about voting for McCain, so I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the matter.
Hi Isaac:
I think that any Christian who knowingly votes for someone who would protect the right of any American to willfully and legally murder another American should repent, whether that is through legal abortion or any other legalized murder.
Barack Obama (and you’d never know it from the Matthew 25 site) is steadfastly “pro-choice”–saying the Roe v. Wade is valid law, and that abortion is not murder.
If we believe that we are created in the image of God then any killing of the unborn is murder, and if we vote in ways that minimizes that murder, then yes, it is sin.
There may be Christians who have not done their due diligence in the matter and do not know that Senator Obama is willing to sanction the continued murder of over 3,000 babies each day, and they should be informed of such and called to change their mind before they vote.
James, do you and/or your wife use birth control? If you are trying to stop procreation and you are a Christian…. you had better change your ways. Oh, and if you every consider a vasectomy… tisk, tisk… Or is your wife wants her tubes tied so she won’t get pregnant again… no, no, no!!!
Swede:
While I’m aware that there are Christians who believe birth control is always wrong, I am not among them, though I count many as my friends.
Even so, murdering a baby in the womb is certainly not the same thing as practicing birth control. Likewise, saying you want to avoid unwanted pregnancies as a dodge so people might forget you support policies to maintain the legality of murdering helpless children is simply a smokescreen.
Oh, and my wife would love to be pregnant. We have six children and love them all.
I think you think your post was funny. I merely find it sad that you don’t see how horrible this legal slaughter of 40 million children is, and what a blight it is on our nation.
James, You think you could be sad for me too????
The way I see it, this is a moral issue. What I believe is relevant to me..no one else. I should not have the right to hold someone else to *my* moral beliefs. That is up to them to decide. Therefore, I am pro choice.
Why do you think you should have the right to judge others based on their beliefs? If they don’t believe that abortion is murder, and because you believe it is, you feel you should have the power to force your beliefs onto them, therefore judging them wrong?
That’s what makes me sad..
James Lansberry
to me
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You see this is what confuses me.
If I decided that running over dogs with my car was all hunky dory and then did it, arguing that it was a moral issue, you’d have no problem making a law against that.
All law is moral. It is a moral issue whether or not you admit it’s moral. And killing another human being, no matter how small, is murder. Whether you believe it or not.
If you were to decide that Scottish people weren’t worthy of the rights you ascribe to adults and started killing them, I wouldn’t say, “oh well, it’s a moral issue. To each his own. Sorry for the Scots”. And likewise I’m going to defend these unborn children who are being murdered by their own mothers.
James, my post was not meant to be funny at all. I find it interesting that people pick and choose what parts of “pro-life” they are going to agree with and not agree with. I remember when Bishop Myers asked all women who were pro-choice not to take communion. He didn’t ask women who had abortions not to take communion or men whose wives had abortions not to take communion. He told women who simply had an opinion not to take communion. But, I was amazed he didn’t ask couples who use birth control or men who had vasectomies not to take communion. I think if he had, no one would have been at the alter.
I am fortunate enough to have lived in an era of birth control. I was smart enough to plan my pregnancies and all my children were very much wanted and are very much loved. I have never walked in the shoes of a woman who had an unwanted pregnancy and I am thankful for it. It is not for me to judge. Do I think abortion is over used? I do. Do I think it should be used as birth control? I do not. I also believe it has to be one of the saddest decisions anyone could ever make. Do I believe life begins at conception? I do.
I also believe that if men were the ones getting pregnant, it would not be an issue. In a country where insurance more often than not will pay for viagra but not birth control, I find the fact that abortion is still an issue insane!!
Swede:
Abortion is still an issue because it is legalized murder. You believe that life begins at conception, then abortion ends that life. That is one reason why certain forms of birth control are avoided by my wife and me as well, because even the pill will occasionally end the life of a recently conceived embryo (baby).
You bring up several different issues, all of which are non-sequiters to the abortion is murder issue.
Abortion is a legalized holocaust of the unborn. Forty million babies have been legally slaughtered by a doctor and their own parents. Forty MILLION. Thousands of babies have died by the hands of a licensed doctor since this post was made.
And it needs to stop.
There are places in the world and there have been times past where a ruling class or those who rise up to rule decide that a class of persons has fewer human rights than others, and has carried out genocide against that class of persons. It happened recently in Rwanda, it happened in Stalin’s Russia, and it happens RIGHT NOW in the USA.
If my neighbor has a gun to my head, I really don’t think debates over whether his clothes match matter much, and likewise as long as this horrible atrocity continues in our nation I don’t think there is any other issue that compares in proportion.
And the only way it will stop is if we stop voting into office those who refuse to use that power to stop it.