The season has so quickly changed
from summer to winter as the Gay Marriage battles are effectively over
in the US, turning to the next front – the abortion battles,
and the rights of illegal migrants.
I saw a Christian pastor in tears
as an anti-death penalty advocate shared pertinent stories about those
wrongly accused. But are we consistent to respect all
life?
We
are reminded that Paul the greatest apostle of grace, knew the grace of
God because he had killed so many Christians
as a zealous Jewish legalist. We are asked to forgive, to give grace, to
love and to restore. We cannot do grace without
understanding the harm we caused, that we may be the greatest sinners.
Jesus considered the
lives of those He came to contact with as sacred. Even the soldiers that
came to capture Him was healed when injured by Peter. How much more we
should be a church of healing rather than death!
Can we come against the death
penalty yet support abortion of the innocent? Surely all life is sacred.
The doctored video against the
Planned Parenthood was the first salvo, half-truths perhaps, but to a
generation that kills the unborn without any conscience. We are reminded
of the God of Molech in ancient Israel where babies are sacrificed for
blessings of harvest from the deity.
The moral authority that
Progressives had
claimed in gay marriage now turned into denial of not causing harm in
the case of abortion which is well supported by
them. The
Progressives now faces a losing moral battle.
The
Episcopal seminary dean Katherine Hancock Ragsdale made an infamous cry
in front of a Birmingham Alabama abortion clinic in 2007 that “abortion
is a blessing”. When we call evil
good, surely there is deep darkness in the body.
Recently, St. James Episcopal
Church in Wichita, Kansas even supported a fund raiser for an abortion
group – the Planned Parenthood which announced that it had performed
327,653 abortions in the year ending June 30, 2014.
The Progressives called this
reproductive justice, confusing not only harm and injustice, but of
murder condoned by the church. This is not an opinion where the church
can come together and worship God. For when we lift up blood stained
hands to God, are we expecting God to condone the grievous harm caused
in the name of Christ? If this is how we love others, then we have
failed.
When we eat bread in communion,
we are reminded that it should be unleavened bread, without the yeast,
without the yoke of hypocrisy in our Christian Faith.
Hypocrisy
has become synonymous to Christianity. The church on the seven hills
have asked to priests not to marry, because the church will lose power
overnight, yet the amount of sexual abuse is a grave sin. The church in
Europe is declining, not because it is not inclusive, but because it is
tainted with yeast.
I am reminded about a mega church
pastor talking about “unequal amounts, equal sacrifice”, extoling the
church members who had downgraded their homes for the building fund
whilst he quietly upgraded to the Penthouse at Sentosa Cove.
It’s easy to be a saint when
poor, but not so easy when rich. We worship ourselves. We love ourselves
too much – we have we not considered the babies aborted in our worship
of self, our worship of the ancient god Molech.
The greatest destruction of the
family is due to abortion, the killing of the innocent, yet the
Christian Left supports it, and the Christian Right ignores it.
The number of deaths due to the
death penalty is negligible when compared to those killed in abortion.
Yet, no one cries in the church service for them. We wear white and
blame gays, because there is blood in our hands.
In the Jubilee
Day of Prayer for Singapore, the pastors
prayed vehemently against the world culture in a 51,000
seated venue with the leaders of the Anglican, Methodist, Lutheran
churches in attendance. But the world culture had already entered into
the fabric of the church with the love of money and self, a deep
self-righteousness indirectly blaming gays for the 10,000 abortions each
year.
When the bible calls an
abomination, it is about killing the innocent babies
. It is not about gay marriage.
All life is sacred
and beautifully created in the image of God. May Christ be reflected in
all that we do. Let us do good instead of harm and be called the
children of God.
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