{"id":3818,"date":"2020-10-30T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2020-10-30T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T19:56:31","slug":"on-infanticide-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3818","title":{"rendered":"On &#8220;Infanticide&#8221; Etc."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Infanticide, like homicide, is still the taking of human life.\u00a0\u00a0 Whether the infant is newly conceived, about the be born or recently born, the intentional taking of its life is still &#8211; murder. \u00a0No fancy verbiage or deceit by euphemism changes the fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stubborn human heart &#8211; which resists the plain truth &#8211; is well described in the Scriptures.&nbsp; And it has been ever so even as Jeremiah put it as follows when disgusted with Israel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?&#8221; said he (verse 9 of chapter 17). &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only God! &nbsp;How depraved is the human race: full of blasphemy, holocausts, wars, slavery (man-stealing), murders, thefts, treachery, lying, and adultery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeremiah had it rough, dealing with apostates.&nbsp; Like liberals among both Jews and Christians of our time, they had abandoned God&#8217;s Law and made up their own rules for living.&nbsp;&nbsp; They may as well have identified as pagans.&nbsp; Jeremiah had to put up with some stubborn, renegade degenerates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>History does, indeed, repeat itself.\u00a0 Sin persists in those who display their rebellion against God by their disdain for His Law which says that those little ones &#8211; in the womb, even &#8211; bear the <em>imago Dei<\/em>. \u00a0They are created in His very image!\u00a0 And on the basis of their image bearing status, it is forbidden that their (human) life be taken without just cause.  Such is a <em>capital <\/em>crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no such capital crime committed by those in the womb; they are not worthy of the death by mankind.&nbsp; Rather, the capital crime of murder is committed by every abortionist and every parent and everyone who assists in the abortion of a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the hard truth that must be faced by all who ponder the &#8220;abortion issue&#8221; or &#8211; to be diffusive &#8211; the &#8220;reproductive health concern&#8221; (or some such horse shit).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Way past time, it is, to wake up and shut up the mouths of those who continue to babble on about the justification of murder by &#8220;a woman&#8217;s right to choose.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing but deceitful, blasphemous lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 Oct., 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infanticide, like homicide, is still the taking of human life.\u00a0\u00a0 Whether the infant is newly conceived, about the be born or recently born, the intentional taking of its life is still &#8211; murder. \u00a0No fancy verbiage or deceit by euphemism changes the fact. The stubborn human heart &#8211; which resists the plain truth &#8211; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}