Civilized slaughter
We are so very civilized in 21st century Western culture.
Case in point: We don’t abandon our unwanted infants on the streets leaving them to clog the gutters, like mothers during the Middle Ages and in 18th century England did. We dismember and remove them from the womb before birth limb by limb, making sure we get all the sundry body parts out, including that stubborn skull which needs to be crushed first. Such a ghastly practice, abandonment.
We don’t drown newborns in a bucket of water at birth like the Chinese, or toss them into a river in broad daylight like 12th century Roman women. We puncture the base of the living child’s skull while her head is still in the womb and suck her brains out. That’s real progress there.
We don’t feed our infants poisonous fertilizer, “make them drink milk” from a pit, or feed them dry, unhulled rice that punctures their windpipe like mothers in India have. We inject a heart medication in a dosage poisonous to the child, stopping his heart and guaranteeing the mother delivers a stillborn son. Or more likely, a daughter.
We don’t suffocate our children with wet paper like Japanese parents, fill their mouths with hot ashes like the Svans in Soviet Georgia, or bury them alive like the North Koreans. We suck them out of the womb before they even have a chance to take their first breath. So much more civilized.
And we don’t roast our children to death in a flaming sacrifice to the gods like many ancient peoples nor seal them in walls to strengthen them like the Canaanites of Jericho (see how well that turned out). Goodness, no. We’re civilized. We have incinerators…and dumpsters….and landfills.
And we have no gods but ourselves…and our careers…and our personal convenience.
http://www.deathreference.com/Ho-Ka/Infanticide.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide
http://abortionprocedures.com/induction/#1466802482689-777ef64c-4991
http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html
Very powerful and sobering, Caroline. Readers, we must stop the slaughter, we must choose life. We can’t ignore this, we can’t justify inaction, and we can’t choose to keep killing or support those that advocate killing. For two more rational arguments on this issue, I urge you to read https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/we-know-they-are-killing-children-all-of-us-know and https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/kids-without-car-seats. Pray, choose life, and make yourself heard until we put a stop to this ongoing madness and evil hubris.
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Thank you for your comments, David, and for the articles, which are very insightful and compelling. We are in a battle for truth and righteousness and the longer it rages the clearer it becomes that this is a spiritual war. The “god of this world” has blinded the eyes of unbelievers, so your final three-fold plea is the perfect plan of “attack.”
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Amen to every bit of that. It boggles my mind how we can have the outright arrogance to somehow call ourselves civilized while the wanton and ongoing slaughter of millions of innocents is still being justified and hailed as a moral good. Haw dare we call ourselves civilized? We’re just as savage, if not more, and only a blind fool would see it any other way.
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