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55 Million Abortions — Twice (2x !!) The Population of the United States’ 12 Largest Cities

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October 18, 2012

Since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in January 1973, more than 55 million babies have been aborted in America.

If a number like “55 million” is hard to grasp, think of it this way—if you added together the populations of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, and San Francisco, you would only have about 26.1 million people—less than half the number aborted.

Looked at in this way, it’s easier to understand just how many missing people “55 million” represents.

Yet the tremendous number of lives taken here actually pales in comparison to the number of human lives wiped out in other countries, where abortion has been legal for longer and Christianity sidelined more readily.

In the former Soviet Union, where abortion for medical reasons was declared legal in 1955 and abortion for any reason was legalized in 1968, the number of abortions was approximately 113.2 million through 1980—a profoundly staggering number.

During this moral nadir the average Soviet woman had 8 abortions.

As recently as 2008, abortion was still “the common method of birth control” in Russia.

Starting from a ban on abortion and projecting forward just a few decades, it’s very difficult to grasp the magnitude of this human, demographic, and moral tragedy. Over time the de facto meaning of words like “medical necessity” has become “abortion on demand.” Might we be headed down the same path?  Many today seem to be engaged in a form of moral and demographic solipsism—pretending or denying the reality that a loss of human life on this scale will have no effect.

Pro-Life Rally

Some abortion advocates these days fight to prevent women from seeing ultrasound images of the babies they carry. Some will not even discuss the enormous numbers of unborn children dying each year or the cumulative total of humans lost to abortion in the United States.

In Russia—the largest nation on earth geographically—the population is down to an estimated 140 million, shrinking by several million each year. Put bluntly, they are killing themselves faster than they are replacing themselves. Immigration—legal or illegal—aside, do we really want to continue down this path toward national genocide?

(Copied from www.lifenews.com; October 17, 2012)

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Two Major Attacks on Parental Rights: Sign the Petition & VOTE

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October 3, 2012

BE SURE TO SIGN THE PETITION BELOW!!!!!!

I felt like this was important enough to re-post from an email I received today.  Scripture tells us that we as parents are responsible to raise our children according to God’s Word.  We are also allowed to discipline our children in love.  Now, ONE: Delaware has become the first state to make it illegal for parents to corporally discipline their children; and TWO: New York State is now allowing schools to give the morning-after pill to girls 14 and older without their parents’ permission (but they can’t give them an aspirin).

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October 2, 2012

Two Major Attacks on Parental Rights

Last month 13 New York City Public Schools began dispensing levonorgestrel – called “Plan B” or “the morning after pill” – without requiring parental notification or consent. And on September 12 Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed into law Senate Bill 234, making Delaware the first state to outlaw corporal discipline of children by their parents.

child discipline

Sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Patricia Blevins (District 7), SB 234 adds the infliction of “pain” to the definition of “physical injury.” While physical injury is understandably prohibited under Delaware law, now any parent who knowingly causes their child pain can face up to a year in prison – two years for a felony if the child is aged three or under.

A 2010 Zogby poll found that 85.1% of Americans agree with “parents having the legal option to give their child a modest spanking.” However, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, which oversees implementation of the eponymous convention, has interpreted that treaty to outlaw all corporal discipline. Still, many of the nations who drafted and ratified the treaty continue to disagree with that interpretation, instead honoring the same standard recognized here in the United States. Except that now Delaware parents who exercise that right will be breaking the law.

NYC Public Schools to Dispensing “Plan B”

Plan B morning after pillMeanwhile, any girl 14 or over in New York City whose parents do not send in a specific opt-out form can receive “Plan B” from the school nurse without parental consent. Under federal law the drug, which prevents implantation of a fetus if taken within 72 hours of sexual activity, is not permitted to girls under 17 years old without a prescription, due to lack of study of its effects on under-age consumers.

“We can’t give out a Tylenol without a doctor’s order,” a school staffer is quoted as saying by the New York Post. “Why should we give out hormonal preparations with far more serious possible side effects, such as blood clots and hypertension?”

school nurse girl

Many parents are also complaining that they have never seen any notice or the opt-out form.

“A simple opt-out provision is not sufficient safe-guard to protect the right of parents, the responsibility of parents, to be informed and involved in these vital life-changing decisions in the lives of their children,” warns constitutional lawyer and ParentalRights.org President Michael Farris. “Taking loving parents out of the equation does inestimable damage to our young people.”

Each of these demonstrates what we have warned of for the past several years: Parental rights in America are being eroded. But taking both events together, we begin to get a picture of America’s future if we fail to adopt the Parental Rights Amendment.

The Time to Act Is Now

“For those waiting for something bad to happen before they will support the Parental Rights Amendment, it has,” Farris warns. “The time to say, ‘We don’t need it yet – call me when the problem is acute,’ is over.”

The time for action is now.

Only by adding to the text of the United States Constitution that “the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right” can we halt the trend toward law and policies that would rob parents of their role as the primary source of guidance and support for their child. Protecting children is our ultimate goal, and we believe that empowering parents – not sidestepping them – is the best way to reach that goal.

SIGN THE PETITION:  So if you have not yet signed the petition at ParentalRights.org, please do so today.  Become part of the movement to secure the Amendment and preserve the traditional role of parents for future generations. When you sign, you will have the opportunity to join our email list for future alerts to help you take action as part of the solution. (You can unsubscribe at any time.)

Once you have signed up, please forward this email to as many friends as you can. Every American parent needs to know that their rights are threatened – and that they’re already beginning to disappear. Only the Parental Rights Amendment can protect your right to direct the upbringing, education, and care of your child. And you know your child is better protected by you – the loving parent – than by any judge or bureaucrat.

Register to Vote

Then you need to take one final action to preserve parental rights: If you are not already registered to vote, you need to register now and vote on November 6.

The deadline to register varies by state, but most are coming up in the next 2 weeks. Seven states have Oct. 6 deadlines; another 16 states and D.C. require registration by the 9th. Only North Dakota does not require voter registration; every other state has an October deadline.

There is no greater impact you can have on our country than to register and vote for candidates who will support and protect parental rights.Please register today, before it is too late to be part of the solution this year.

Thank you for standing with us to preserve parental rights for this and future generations!

Sincerely,
Michael Ramey
Director of Communications & Research; ParentalRights.org

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Health & Beauty at Any Cost??

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September 8, 2012

This is the second part in a series from Bound4Life’s series on Abortion, the Industry of Death.

If you are on medication, have had a vaccine, or you use wrinkle cream, the chances are good that you have part of an aborted baby in you.

The pharmaceutical industry is a major consumer of abortive fetal cells. The reason is, that drug companies are always in a rush to be the first to go to market with a new product, and fetal stem cells grow much faster than adult stem cells. By using fetal cells, they do not have to wait for adult cells to grow. In the 1990s drug patent lives were extended from 8 years to 14 years, so being the first to get a blockbuster drug to market can add billions of dollars to drug company profits over their 14 years of monopoly.

8-week-aborted-fetus

Vaccine manufacturers rely heavily on abortion to thrive. “Several commonly-used vaccines are cultured on human diploid fibroblast cell strains derived from electively-aborted human fetuses.” There are alternative manufacturers for most vaccines, but some diseases have no vaccines available that are not cultured on fetal cells. See the charts under the “Vaccines” dropdown on this site.

Research that was originally intended to help burn victim patients recover is now widely used in the cosmetic industry. One company that openly discloses this is found here. This practice was made more widespread in 1993 when the Clinton administration approved fetal body parts for research. One Barbados clinic paid women to carry pregnancies to a very late stage and then forced premature deliveries so the freshest parts could be harvested. In Moscow there are more than fifty beauty salons and spas that offer fetal injections to rich Russian and Western women to supposedly eliminate cellulite.

It’s not difficult to see Ezekiel 22 and its discussion of a land that is guilty of shedding innocent blood as reality when you read such horrors. Abortion is a death industry going far beyond the abortion clinic. It’s streaming through the undercurrents of our society, and the dollars make it quite worthwhile to many. Clearly, babies are sometimes bred and trafficked in the womb for the sake of drugs manufacturing, sometime on federal dollars, and even beauty treatments. What’s it worth for us to stay healthy, to avoid a disease, to slim down or be unwrinkled? Is it worth the lives of the unborn?

Ezekiel 22:12, “ In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.”

Micah 7:3, “Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul, thus they weave it together.”

The entire article with its sources and references can be found here.

A list of food products and vaccines that use aborted fetal cells can be found here.  Note that Pepsi is no longer on the boycott list.  The RA drug, Enbrel, is among the drugs that use fetal cell lines.

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Taking Bribes to Shed Innocent Blood

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August 31, 2012

I just recently discovered the website Bound4Life.com and their goal “to exalt Jesus in the nation’s capitol, to see abortion end, and to contend for great awakening in every sphere of society.”  They are becoming a strong voice for the innocent unborn.  They have posted five parts of a series on Abortion: The Industry of Death.  I’m going to be condensing some of the facts they have uncovered about the abortion industry that are even more horrific than many of the past facts that have come to light.  The following are some of the facts I took away from Part 1 of the series.  Sources and footnotes for their research is  available at Bound4Life’s original blog post.

10 week human baby

  • Although aborted babies are generally reported as being disposed of as organic medical waste, Stericycle, the largest medical waste disposal company in the country has a clause in their drivers’ labor contract that allows drivers to refuse to transport fetal waste.  Therefore, often fetal remains are cremated or released into the sewage system.
  • Fetal wholesalers are allowed to place retrieval agents inside abortion clinics, where they are given access to the babies’ dead bodies. They can then negotiate purchase prices for body parts that are then sold to research companies, etc., such as pharmaceutical companies and biotech industries.
  • Congressional hearings about these practices have quickly dissipated without any action because the Democratic Party garners significant support from the abortion industry and the Republican Party from pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The Democrats are in bed with the sellers and the Republicans are in bed with the buyers.
  • One abortion proponent suggested that having a market for fetal parts might bring some comfort to post-abortive mothers by informing them that some social good would come from the procedure, and compared that to families of accident victims who donate the organs of their loved ones. I won’t delve into how asinine that thinking is in this blog. It’s basically just paying off the woman having the abortion.

When we consider how the politicians are in the abortion industry’s pocket, and the market for aborted baby parts, we recall the words of the prophet Ezekiel:

“In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me,” says the Lord GOD. “Behold, therefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst. (Ezekiel 22:12-13)

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Killing By The Millions — How Much is That??

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August 29, 2012

In our society, we talk in numbers of millions, billions, and trillions on a daily basis, but I’m not so sure that we really understand how many those numbers represent. 

This image has 2500 squares on it. 

2500 squares - abortions

Consider each one of those dots as an aborted baby.  There are 3700 babies killed every day in the United States through abortion.  That’s 1.5 times the number of squares on this page.

It would take a 400 page book of these pages to equal 1,000,000 squares.

  • There have been approximately 27,000,000 abortions worldwide this year.  That would take 10,800 pages.
  • There have been 56,000,000 abortions in the United States since Roe v. Wade in 1973. That would equal a 22,400 page book with 2500 squares on each page.
  • There have been 1,266,388,000 abortions worldwide since 1980….and quickly counting.  That’s 4 times the current population of the United States in humans who never got a chance to be born.  Notice, we are now talking in Billions!!  This number of abortions would take 503,000 pages of 2500 squares; or a book 26 stories tall!!! 

Are you getting a better picture of how many a million is?

Consider this:  Each year in the United States there are more babies murdered in their mothers’ wombs (1,370,000) than people who have been killed in all of these United States wars and conflicts COMBINED (1,319,485) !!!……

  • Revolutionary War
  • Northwest Indian War
  • Quasi War
  • War of 1812
  • 1st Seminole War
  • Black Hawk War
  • 2nd Seminole War
  • Mexican-American War
  • 3rd Seminole War
  • Civil War
  • Indian Wars
  • Great Sioux War
  • Spanish-American War
  • Philippine-American War
  • Boxer Rebellion
  • Mexican Revolution
  • Haiti Occupation
  • World War I
  • North Russia Campaign
  • American Exp. Force Siberia
  • Nicaragua Occupation
  • World War II
  • Korean War
  • Vietnam War
  • El Salvador Civil War
  • Beirut
  • Grenada
  • Panama
  • Gulf War
  • Operation Provide Comfort
  • Somalia Intervention
  • Bosnia
  • NATO Air Campaign Yugoslavia
  • Afghanistan
  • Iraq

The war today is against an enemy on our own soils.  The evil resides in the hearts and souls of those who promote the killing of innocent, unborn human beings.  Humans made in the image of God, human beings that Jesus died for.  The abortionists need our prayers. We must fight this battle daily and peaceably, by getting out the information in social media, supporting the local Christian crisis pregnancy centers, praying, giving, and – very important this year – voting pro-life!!

Source: http://www.militaryfactory.com/american_war_deaths.asp

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Time Magazine’s 20 Most “Influential” Americans – Famous or Infamous

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July 28, 2012

Time Magazine just came out with its list of the “Top 20 Most Influential Americans of All Time;” a pared down version of their recent “Top 100 Most Influential People of All Time.” Here’s the list…see how many you know:

  • George Washington
  • Thomas JeffersonTime Magazine's Top 100
  • Sacagawea, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Sitting Bull
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Thomas Edison
  • Henry Ford
  • Wright Brothers
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Albert Einstein
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Louis Armstrong
  • James Watson
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Steve Jobs

These are “influential” people. The term “influential” is neutral. Influence can be good or bad. Being influential just means that something or someone has had a profound effect of some sort. Hitler was influential, but we wouldn’t call that a good thing. In the context of Time’s article, the editors called their list of people “trailblazers, visionaries, and cultural ambassadors who defined a nation.”

How many of these influential people did you know? How about Margaret Sanger? Do you know who she was and why was she extoled by Time Magazine for her work?

Margaret Sanger was born in 1879 to a mother who had endured 18 pregnancies and delivered 11 live babies. This had an early influence on Sanger and she became a headstrong leader in the American “birth control” movement, a term she coined. She was arrested numerous times for operating a clinic in New York that dispensed contraceptive information and she was an outspoken promoter of eugenics.[1] In 1921, she founded The American Birth Control League, which later changed its name to Planned Parenthood.

One of Sanger’s goals for Planned Parenthood was, for the most part, unspoken and unwritten, but that has come to light in later years. That goal was to rid the world of black people. She once wrote to Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, of the Procter and Gamble Company, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”[2] To her, black people were, along with the poor and disabled, what she called at different times, “human weeds,” “parasites,” “defectives,” “mistakes” and “a dead weight of human waste.” As the leader of the eugenics and abortion movements, Sanger’s comments capsulized the mindset of these movements.  They divide the precious souls that Jesus died for, into “inferior” and “superior” kinds.  

Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood has been quite successful in its goal of killing off African Americans. Since 1973, when abortion was legalized with the Roe v. Wade decision, Planned Parenthood has murdered over 17 million black babies inside their mothers’ wombs (compare that to the 3500 or so black people that have been killed by the KKK since 1865[3]). That figure becomes even more poignant when you note that, although the black percentage of the general American population is 12%, 38% of abortions are performed on black women. In New York City, for every 1000 live black births, over 1500 black babies are murdered. In Washington, D.C., for every 1000 black babies born, over 1650 are killed before they have a chance to be born. And, as of today (although there is current pending legislation to try to change it), in Washington, D.C. it is still legal to abort a baby up until the moment of birth. Planned Parenthood sets up its clinics in low-income urban areas under the guise of offering low-cost health care for women, when what they are really doing is killing off the next generation of black women and men alike.

According to the Guttmacher Institute[4], there have been 55,000,000+ abortions in the United States since abortion was legalized. That’s more than 3,300 abortions daily, 137 abortions per hour every hour, or about one abortion every 30 seconds in the United States of America. And Planned Parenthood is by far the largest provider of abortions services in the US.

The famous feminist Gloria Steinem wrote the Time article and praised Sanger for pioneering “the most radical, humane and transforming political movement of the 20th and 21st centuries.” I would agree with “radical” and “transforming,” although, like “influential” these aren’t necessarily good things. But, I’m not certain how killing more than four times the current population of the United States[5], through such heinous means as burning with acid, a shot in the heart, decapitation, sucking their brains out, and tearing a child limb from limb[6],

could ever be thought of by anyone as humane.

I don’t suppose we have any room to argue with Time Magazine that Margaret Sanger was “influential” in defining a nation as she went about “defying church and state,” but the article says her life was “brave and joyous.” I’m not sure why Steinem believes that but I find it hard to see how any but the most callous of souls could find joy in the murder of millions of innocent human lives or what makes that so brave. Sanger was not just an influential American, she might very well have been the most influential person of two different centuries; paving the way for the widespread acceptance of mass murder, not just in America but worldwide.

God said to the prophet, Jeremiah,

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you”  Jeremiah 1:5

[1] Eugenics is the science devoted to improving human hereditary qualities through selective breeding. Sanger and her cohorts hoped to help evolution along and, through their efforts and the Supreme Court case of Buck v. Bell (which was decided by Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.), were successful in having over 60,000 “defective” Americans forcefully sterilized in the early 1900s. Sanger called these “defectives,” which were the chronically ill, the poor, handicapped, epileptics, criminals, etc., “the dead weight of human waste.”

[2] Twoop.com – http://bit.ly/O6iJC8

[3] Day Gardner, National Black Pro-Life Union

[4] A pro-abortion agency that is a former research arm of Planned Parenthood.

[5] Since 1980, there have been 1,256,600,000 abortions worldwide; four times the current population of the US.

[6] AbortionFacts.com – http://bit.ly/N2gzCO

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Were Darwin & Hitler Christians? – Part 2 – Darwin

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July 8, 2012

Old Bearded Darwin

Charles Darwin’s thinking and writing on the subject of evolution and natural selection caused him to reject the evidence for God in nature and ultimately to renounce the Bible, God, and the Christian faith.

He was baptized in the Anglican Church, raised by a Unitarian mother, and wrote that he frequently prayed. After two years in medical school, his father suggested that Charles become a country preacher.  He wrote, “as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.“

He studied theology for three years at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and while there read William Paley’s Evidences of Christianity and his Natural Theology (which argues for the existence of God from design), to such an extent that he said he could have written Evidences perfectly from memory.

Still, Charles continued to have faith in the comfort afforded to him by Scripture.  In a letter of condolence to a bereaved friend at that time, he wrote of “so pure and holy a comfort as the Bible affords,” compared with “how useless the sympathy of all friends must appear.”

Before Charles finished his theological schooling, he hired onto the HMS Beagle as a travelling companion to Captain Roy FitzRoy and as an unpaid naturalist.   The captain believed the Bible literally and personally conducted a church service every Sunday, at which attendance by all on board was compulsory.  Charles is reported to have quoted Scripture in certain situations and to have been given communion in Tierra del Fuego.

Darwin had taken with him the newly published first volume of Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology on the Beagle, and the second edition was sent to him while he was in Montevideo.  These books ridiculed belief in recent creation in favor of an old earth, and denied that Noah’s Flood was worldwide.  The old-Earth point of view lent Darwin its associated vast geological ages needed to make his theory of natural selection work as the mechanism of evolution. One of Darwin’s biographers calls Charles’s reading of this book his ‘point of departure from orthodoxy.’

The more Darwin convinced himself that species had originated by chance and developed by a long course of gradual modification, the less he could accept not only the Genesis account of creation, but also the rest of the Old Testament as the divinely inspired Word of God. In his autobiography, Darwin wrote,

“I had gradually come by this time, [i.e. 1836 to 1839] to see that the Old Testament was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos or the beliefs of any barbarian.”

When it came time for Darwin to write his Origins he had to make the decision between interpreting his observations in light of Genesis and supernatural creation, or according to Lyell’s theory of long ages.  It was a difficult journey for Darwin to turn his back on his Christian roots.  While writing his book, in 1844, he wrote to his friend, Joseph Hooker, “I am almost convinced… that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.”  Many commentators have said that with his theory of evolution, Darwin murdered God.  He finally turned his back on God and God’s Word entirely, as evidenced by a number of quotes:

In regard to miracles: “the more we know of the fixed laws of nature, the more incredible do miracles become”

In regard to the Gospel writers: “the men of that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible to us”

In regard to the Gospel: “the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events” & “they differ in many important details, far too important, as it seemed to me, to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eye-witnesses.”

In regard to his gradual abandonment of Christianity: “by such reflections as these… I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.” & “I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.”  Born in 1816, Darwin would have been forty in 1856.

He had fallen so far away from his childhood faith, when his daughter, Annie, died in 1851, he didn’t find the consolation that he had offered to his friend years earlier, saying, “Our only consolation is that she passed a short, though joyous life.”

Charles’s father and grandfather were “freethinkers” and did not judge Charles for his unbelief.  In fact, the term “Darwinizing,” as it referred to the family’s particular type of evolutionary thinking, was actually coined in reference to granddad, Erasmus, before Charles was born.  Charles continued to bathe his mind in Lyell and Paley-like writings and finally abandoned all belief in Christianity.

“I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so, the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother, and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.”

In 1876, in his Autobiography, Darwin wrote,

“Formerly I was led… to the firm conviction of the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. In my Journal I wrote that whilst standing in the midst of the grandeur of a Brazilian forest, ‘it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, admiration, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.’ I well remember my conviction that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body. But now the grandest scenes would not cause any such convictions and feelings to rise in my mind.”

In 1880, in reply to a correspondent, Charles wrote, “I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.”

Charles Darwin died on April 19, 1882, at the age of 73. Although many stories have been written of a deathbed conversion and a renouncing of evolution, they have all been denied by members of Darwin’s family. Francis Darwin wrote to Thomas Huxley on February 8, 1887, that a report that Charles had renounced evolution on his deathbed was “false and without any kind of foundation,” and in 1917 Francis affirmed that he had “no reason whatever to believe that he [his father] ever altered his agnostic point of view.” Charles’s daughter (Henrietta Litchfield) wrote on page 12 of the London evangelical weekly, The Christian, dated February 23, 1922,

“I was present at his deathbed….He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier… The whole story has no foundation whatever.”

John M. Brentnall and Russell M. Grigg of Creation Ministries International, http://www.christiananswers.net, sum it up like this:

Charles Darwin was a tragically mistaken man who drifted from a childlike trust in One who helped him run to school on time into an abyss of hopelessness and agnosticism. While the spiritual journey of a Christian is a journey out of darkness into Christ’s marvelous light, that of Charles Darwin was a slippery slide out of Gospel light (although not saving spiritual sight) into the sheer “blackness of darkness forever.”

Darwin’s unbelief, like that of so many people today, had its roots in a mind which first rejected the revelation of God in the Bible and then was unwilling to accept the revelation of God which God Himself has given in nature. This religion of revelation, of the Bible, of the Lord Jesus Christ, will keep us tuned to truth, hope, and life in God, and away from evolutionism, humanism, and atheism, only as we allow it to exercise its power in our hearts. The tragedy of Charles Darwin is that he never did.

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Were Darwin & Hitler Christians? – Part 1 – Hitler

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June 25, 2012

HitlerI must admit that I was a bit surprised when two young men came up to me after one of my recent “Evolution: The Religion of Death” breakout sessions and adamantly defended Darwin’s and Hitler’s Christianity. One of the guys had his smart phone at the ready and began reading off numerous quotes by both men that, at face value, would make either of them sound like a Christian. Although I had read a bit regarding how both men had Catholic roots, I found myself ill-equipped to refute the young man’s quotes with known facts. I talked about how Darwin had studied to be a country pastor because of encouragement from his father, and how he had turned against God after the death of his daughter. I think that regarding Hitler, I said something about “by their fruit you shall know them” and “even Satan and his demons can quote Scripture.” Afterward, I felt like a babbling idiot, except that God did give me the wisdom to bring the discussion back around to the boy’s own heart, before he had to run off to join his church group. And, I was able to hook him up with someone wiser than I, and they had a good two hour discussion later than evening. I heard that the talk went well and that the boy was appreciative of our willingness to spend time with him to discuss his concerns.

But, I hate it when I feel like I don’t know what I should know. I’m shamed by my ignorance. I thank my Dad for always telling me to “look it up.” He had a scientific mind and forever encouraged my brother and me to investigate and experiment. So, as soon as I could get to my computer, I began digging into Darwin’s and Hitler’s religious upbringing and sought out whatever I could find about their faith in later years. I thought I would share with you here what I discovered. Let’s begin with Hitler.

Hitler’s Religion

I found the quotes that my young friend read off to me, along with a few others, which makes it sound like Hitler was a devout Christian. Consider these:

“Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” from Mein Kampf

“My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter.” from a 1922 speech; This quote reveals either misunderstanding of the Scriptures or deliberate deceit on Hitler’s part.

In the above statements, Hitler refers to God as Creator and to Jesus as Lord and Savior. But, how well can we trust Hitler? We can glean an answer to that question from more of his statements. When you study the public man and the private man, you find that he was two-faced and hid his true self from the public. Consider this quote in which Hitler says he is dedicated to propaganda and how it is to be addressed to the emotions of the masses:

“To whom should propaganda be addressed? … It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses… The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses’ attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc….The whole art consists in doing this so skillfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real… But since propaganda is not and cannot be the necessity in itself … its effect for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect… its soundness is to be measured exclusively by its effective result”. 
 (Mein Kampf, Vol 1, Ch 6 and Ch 12)

Although the word “propaganda” is difficult to define, we can deduce from the rest of the statement that Hitler’s purpose in propaganda was to deceive the masses “so skillfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real.”

Here are a couple of examples that point to how honest Hitler was:

“I think I can assure you that there is no one in Germany who will not with all his heart approve any honest attempt at an improvement of relations between Germany and France. My own feelings force me to take the same attitude…  The German people has the solemn intention of living in peace and friendship with all civilized nations and powers…  And I regard the maintenance of peace in Europe as especially desirable and at the same time secured…The young Germany, that is led by me and that finds its expression in the National Socialist Movement, has only the most heartfelt desire for an understanding with other European nations.”Letter, October 26, 1930. This from the man that started World War II!!

“Amongst the accusations which are directed against Germany…is the charge that the National Socialist State is hostile to religion. In answer to that charge I should like to make before the German people the following solemn declaration:  No one in Germany has in the past been persecuted because of his religious views, nor will anyone in the future be so persecuted…” speech in the Reichstag on January 30, 1939. 10-17 million people died during the Holocaust, led by Adolf Hitler! Are you inclined to believe what Hitler said in public?

So, where do we look to find Hitler’s private thoughts and intentions? We have an excellent record of private conversations that were taken down in shorthand by his personal secretary and published in a book, Hitler’s Table Talk, in London, 1953. Hitler never allowed any type of mechanical recording of his private conversations, but was encouraged to always have a stenographer record him for posterity. Here are a couple of choice quotes from this collection:

“The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death…. When understanding of the universe has become widespread… Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity….Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity…. And that’s why someday its structure will collapse….the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little…. Christianity the liar…. We’ll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State.”

“The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity.”

“Christianity is an invention of sick brains…. When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let’s be the only people who are immunised against the disease.”

Joseph Göebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda and one of Hitler’s closest associates wrote in his diary,

“The Fuhrer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay. Rightly so. It is a branch of the Jewish race.” [Joseph Goebbels, 1939]

Those who would have us believe in Hitler’s Christianity, point out that he was raised in a Catholic home and baptized as a Catholic. Yet, according to a press release from Catholic League President, William A. Donohue (2/4/99):

“Hitler was a neo-pagan terrorist whose conscience was not informed by Christianity, but by pseudo-scientific racist philosophies. Hitler hated the Catholic Church, made plans to kill the Pope, authorized the murder of thousands of priests and nuns, and did everything he could to suppress the influence of the Church. In 1933, Hitler said, ‘It is through the peasantry that we shall really be able to destroy Christianity because there is in them a true religion rooted in nature and blood.’”

Even though Hitler may have never formally withdrawn from the Catholic Church, numerous sources state that the conference of German bishops excommunicated all Nazis in 1930 and in the 1932 elections forbade Catholics to vote for a Nazi. Hitler appointed Alfred Rosenberg, a virulent pagan, as Fuehrer’s Delegate for Spiritual and Ideological Training.

Historian Paul Johnson wrote that Hitler hated Christianity with a passion, adding that shortly after assuming power in 1933, Hitler told Hermann Rauschnig that he intended “to stamp out Christianity root and branch.”

The entire block quote below is from Infidels.org’s library:

Once Hitler had gained power, he began to see Christianity as a threat to the National Socialists’ domination of Germany. After 1935 his speeches and writings became more and more virulently anti-Christian; he argued that Christian worship was a sign of weakness, and that it should be replaced by reverence for the nation and the state, and of course for the National Socialist Party. However, he retained his belief in reincarnation, and his conviction that there was some supreme creative force whose will he was enacting.

The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity … The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity.

I’ll make these damned parsons feel the power of the state in a way they would have never believed possible. For the moment, I am just keeping my eye upon them: if I ever have the slightest suspicion that they are getting dangerous, I will shoot the lot of them. This filthy reptile raises its head whenever there is a sign of weakness in the State, and therefore it must be stamped on. We have no sort of use for a fairy story invented by the Jews.

[Quoted from Hitler's "Table Talks" with Bormann, in  Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Allan Bullock.]

I could go on, but these statements should suffice to reveal the real heart of Hitler toward Christianity. I will not flatly state that Hitler was an atheist, because other statements that he made seem to sound like he believed in “a god,” perhaps nature or the state. He spoke of “Providence” and fate. But, Hitler was definitely anti-Christian and sought to (if privately) distance himself and immunize himself against Christianity. He was a firm believer in propaganda and would proclaim himself a Christian with a Savior, when it benefited him, but Hitler’s private conversations revealed his true self.

SOURCES:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mischedj/ca_hitler.html

http://truthvanguard.com/2010/09/30/hitler-and-christianity/

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/sn-hitler.html

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sugexp=chrome,mod=8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=define+propaganda

http://www.churchinhistory.org/pages/leaf-sum/catholicsvnazis.htm

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Rosenberg.html

http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id2.html

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Hormone Content & Mechanisms of Various Birth Control Products

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June 23, 2012

I am really excited about all the feedback and comments I have received regarding the birth control pill conversation we have been having.  We can all learn so much and be so much better informed, allowing us all to counsel others and make wiser decisions.

I had a reader ask me about the NuvaRing form of birth control, which sent me on another search for reliable information.  I have spent about six hours scouring the internet.  I reviewed a number of websites and tried to find information where it seemed least likely that the author had an agenda, such as NuvaRing or various pill manufacturers’ websites.  We don’t want to quote the foxes that are guarding the henhouse. Some of the web sources to beware of are the ones with advertisements for birth control pills on their site (WebMD, etc.).  If they are being supported by Pill manufacturers, they should be suspect. I also tried to confirm all of my statements from multiple sources.  Although I scoured quite a few websites, only quoted sources are listed at the end of the blog.

Moment of Fertilization

Here is some basic information that can help a couple understand which mechanisms each hormonal form of birth control uses: 

NuvaRing – According to the NuvaRing website, “NuvaRing contains 2 types of hormones (estrogen and progestin), These are the same hormones found in the pill, and they work the same way in your body even though they are administered differently with NuvaRing.”  The same can be said for contraception patches.

Combination Pill – Contains estrogen and progesterone – Estrogen controls growth of the uterine lining during the first part of the menstrual cycle. Estrogen and progesterone work together to result in the production of a very thin uterine lining, called the endometrium, which is unreceptive to a fertilized egg. Plus, they thicken the cervical mucus to prevent sperm from entering the cervix and fertilizing an egg.  They may also make it more difficult for the fallopian tubes to transport eggs.  I did not find any information about any Pill that only uses either estrogen or progesterone.  The only Pill using only one hormone is the Mini-Pill.

Mini-Pill – Mostly used by nursing mothers, is less effective than the combination pill and contains progestin only, a synthetic form of progesterone.  Mini-pills work by thickening the cervical mucus so the sperm cannot reach the egg. The hormone in the mini-pills also changes the lining of the uterus, so that implantation of a fertilized egg is much less likely to occur. In some cases, mini pills stop ovulation. Progestins (such as Norplant and Depo-Provera) allow a higher rate of fertilization and subsequent abortion, most likely even higher than The Pill.

Drospirenone  – Sold under the brand names Yasmin, Yasminelle, Yaz, Beyaz, Ocella, Zarah, and Angeliq, all of which are combination products of drospirenone with an ethinylestradiol. It is used as birth control pill, to treat moderate acne, and for premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Women who take Pills containing drospirenone have a six- to sevenfold risk of developing thromboembolism compared to women who do not take any contraceptive pill.  This seems like a no-take -no-brainer.

  • Today’s Pills contain far less estrogen and progestin than the early birth control pills did and therefore suppress ovarian activity less often. This means that it becomes more important for manufacturers to make sure that the other mechanisms of the pill are more effective. It is medically still very difficult to measure how frequently women ovulate when on The Pill.  Fallopian activity seems to stay almost the same in both sets of women.  Current studies seem to be indicating that the longer a woman is on The Pill, her pituitary may begin to compensate for the artificial hormones so that she ovulates more frequently with time.
  • The various changes that take place in the endometrium during the second half of the menstrual cycle may be regarded as preparing the uterine lining for the nourishment and reception of the fertilized egg. It would appear that a woman’s body and lining of her uterus are “optimal for implantation” a few days after ovulation and conception have occurred.
  • Women who take The Pill can attest to the fact that their monthly flow decreases.  This is because the endometrium does not grow and prepare itself with as much blood and other nutrients for the preborn baby as it does when a woman is not on The Pill.  When she is not pregnant at the end of a month’s cycle, the body expels that unused layer of endometrial tissue.
  • MRI’s of women both on The Pill and not on it, show a difference of 2+ millimeters in endometrial thickness.  Earlier studies did not find this significant because estrogen levels were much higher. But more recent studies involving in-vitro fertilization, etc. have found that as little as one millimeter difference can be significant.  Since the baby is not 2 millimeters long until 21 days of life, you can see how significant this is.  The Pill also makes changes in cells in the endometrium called integrins, which in layman’s terms makes the endometrium less “sticky.”  Less sticky means less chance for a fertilized egg to implant.  Remember, when we talk about implantation we are always talking about an already fertilized egg…an unborn baby.
  • Women on The Pill have a higher ratio of extra-uterine (pregnancies in the fallopian tubes, etc,) pregnancies to normal (in-uterus) pregnancies than women who are not on The Pill.  This also points to The Pill having abortifacient qualities.
  • Women taking The Pill need to be followed carefully by a physician.  Numerous drugs and some herbs (especially St. John’s Wort) can interact with The Pill or interfere with The Pill’s effectiveness.  The hormones can also cause or contribute to multiple physical problems for the woman.  A good list of these effects can be found at this website under “What special precautions should I follow?” – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a601050.html

QUOTED SOURCES:

http://ccli.org/contraception/mdexplains.php —  How the Pill and Other Contraceptives Work; Postfertilization Effects of Oral Contraceptive –  This is a scientific but easy to read article and contains 53 footnotes/references.  If you have heard studies that contradict some of the information listed here, such as “a change in endometrium lining doesn’t constitute an abortifacient quality,” then you might find an answer here, along with references to more information.

http://www.medicinenet.com/conception_pictures_slideshow/article.htm — watch this moment of fertilization slide show

http://www.medicineatmichigan.org/magazine/2008/spring/21days/ — The first 21 days

http://www.healthywomen.org/condition/estrogen

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/understanding_birth_control_medications_contrace/article_em.htm

http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-pills

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drospirenone

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a601050.html

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Responding to a Readers’ Comment Concerning “The Pill”

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June 22, 2012

(I am answering here, rather than in “Comments” because I couldn’t get the clips to embed in the Comment section.  This is in response to the public comment and one I received via email.)

I have spent some time investigating Mark Driscoll and his stand on The Pill; focusing on his most recent comments.  He quotes my favored source on the topic, Randy Alcorn, who I think is one of the most knowledgeable people regarding the subject.  They have had a “debate” regarding birth control and here are three clips from that conversation:

http://theresurgence.com/2010/08/09/are-young-pro-life-evangelicals-inconsistent-video

http://theresurgence.com/2010/08/16/is-there-a-connection-between-birth-control-abortion – This addresses your question

http://theresurgence.com/2010/08/23/how-should-christian-couples-approach-family-planning

From Driscoll’s February 2012 column on the topic:

The Pill Debate

“The debate over hormonal birth control, particularly the pill, is whether it results in the taking of a life by destroying a fertilized egg. Author, pastor, and pro-life leader Randy Alcorn has written a great deal on this subject.  Alcorn writes, “The Pill is used by about fourteen million American women each year. Across the globe it is used by about sixty million. The question of whether it causes abortions has direct bearing on untold millions of Christians, many of them prolife, who use and recommend it.”

Alcorn goes on to point out that there is not one but rather three purposes for birth control pills.

  • First, the pill exists to inhibit ovulation, which is its primary means of birth control.
  • Second, the pill thickens the cervical mucus so that it becomes more difficult for sperm to travel to the egg.
  • Third, the pill thins and shrivels the lining of the uterus so that it is unable or less able to facilitate the implantation of the newly fertilized egg.

The bottom line is this: the first two purposes of birth control pills are contraceptive in nature and therefore acceptable for use by a Christian couple. However, the third function of birth control pills is potentially abortive in that it seeks to disrupt the ongoing life of a fertilized egg. That potentiality is incredibly controversial; thus, faithful Christians who are staunchly prolife and believe that life begins at conception are divided over the issue.

From all that I can find, there are not any Pills that only use the first two methods. It would not be advantageous to manufacturers to produce pills that would fail so frequently. There used to be pills that were only to prevent ovulation, but the strength of hormone was too dangerous for women.  Plus, it still failed.  In fact, any combination of the three mechanisms can and will still fail.  It is my stance that, if there is any possibility that The Pill that a woman takes might cause an abortion, it’s best that a pro-life woman stay away from it.

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