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Why Pro-Choicers Love the Word Fetus

I saw a host of comments in a Reddit thread where members referred to an unborn human as a “fetus.” This struck me as strange, that those who are pro-choice commonly use an archaic and obscure Latin medical term to describe an unborn baby.

My initial instinct about this practice was that it was meant to obfuscate, to muddy the picture of the true form of the unborn baby. It is akin to saying that the unborn human is a “kettlabog,” or whatever. It makes the unborn baby sound alien, even insectoid, but certainly doesn’t make one think of a human.

When conception occurs, we have a single-celled zygote. After the cells begin to replicate, we have an embryo. After about two months, medical literature refers to a fetus. If it is common for sonogram practitioners and doctors to refer to human unborn babies as “fetus” in front of expectant mothers, I have never seen it.

It only appears to be common usage for those who are staunchly pro-choice. I have often read on paternity sites that this “fetus” is referred to as a “baby to-be” by nurses and doctors.

It is strange when people start using an archaic Latin word, instead of simply using the plain and simple English equivalent. They will literally say anything to avoid getting “unborn baby” out of their mouths.

I’ve been in a doctor’s office three times with a woman receiving pre-natal care. Never once have I ever heard a doctor refer to the baby as a fetus in front of the mother. Not once. Instead they refer to them as he or she.

There are common, easy-to-understand English words that are just as accurate as describing an unborn human baby. But pro-choicers have fallen in love with the medical, scientific terminology, mainly used by expert personnel.

It is pretty obvious why, to me. They don’t want you to associate things like ‘aversion to pain’ and ‘able to dream’ with the unborn baby. They will very often not even specify that it is a “human fetus.” It seems important to them to divorce the reality of the situation from conversation and debate.

In all, if you have to resort to speaking in a foreign tongue to back up your argument, when a plain and simple English word would do, maybe it is time to rethink your position, maybe it is time to check yourself.

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A New Argument for the Existence of God

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Hebrews 11: 1

Consider that faith IS the evidence.

An atheist might say that this world is godless, unfair, short, and randomness rules the day. And yet, there are hundreds of millions of people who live in this godless reality, and not only have faith in a God, but have faith in a GOOD God.

Consider, that God is so f*****g awesome, that even in a godless world, He is still prayed to, worshiped and believed in.

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Why Socialists Want Complete Control

I was just thinking last night about socialism and leftism, and how, it makes perfect sense, in a way, that they would desire to take power of the whole government, because they are seeing evil — which is endless in man’s heart, and so believe they need an equal amount of endless secular power to defeat it.

Christians, however, know that the struggle is not against flesh and blood, or systems, or structures, but against principalities, powers, spirits, and evil. You will never have an education system large enough to transform even one man’s dark heart. Only a miracle can do that. The kind that the Christian faith offers.

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There is Something to be Said for War

They have no great war. 

They were just children when 9/11 happened. They don’t remember having to crouch under your school desk during a nuclear attack drill. They didn’t have grandparents who fought in World War 2 and Vietnam to teach them the evils of leftism and socialism and communism. They didn’t have to fight a civil war, or run an underground railroad. 

They played inside instead of outside, lived online, stayed home on weekends playing video games with earphones and headsets, cradling I-pods and hand-held consoles. 

They have no great struggle, no bogeyman to keep them up at night. There is nothing outside the borders of this country that scares them, that puts fear into their hearts. 

They don’t speak of evil, almost never speak of evil. 

Instead of quoting scripture, they cite pop-psychology, they cite news articles and editorials. They utilize concepts and words that cannot be found in our bibles, our sutras, our surahs and encyclicals. They have completely abandoned a 2,000 year old inheritance of accumulated wisdom. 

They will not band together to fight against evil, perhaps because they do not believe in evil. 

It is hard to believe in evil when all of your life, you have been on the sidelines, living in a digital prison. Never having been tested, never having failed, sinned, apologized, made recompense. As if being good was merely doing nothing, or having opted out. 

Most men who believe in evil have lived long enough to encounter evil first, within themselves. 

But they do believe in oppression, systemic racism, safe spaces, phobias and privilege. They have a whole lexicon of euphemisms for evil to judge others with. 

Actions and fruits no longer matter, they aren’t important. Only secret, invisible intentions matter now; only what they intuit about others, whatever assumptions and motives they can and will deposit upon others.

And because they don’t have an enemy to war against, they now war against their own. 

Maybe it is time to face the fact that we are a warlike people, each generation looking for a heroic, American struggle, and if they cannot find one ready and waiting, they will fashion one, create one, cook one up as they have, out of a motley host of exotic ingredients found in old, Soviet, Marxist cookbooks. 

Jesus said, that you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. 

But what happens when a whole generation abandons truth?

What happens when truth is viewed as meanness, as impolite conversation, or as violence and aggression?

Perhaps all that will be left will be enslavement to the shifting, subjective passions of a self-righteous mob. 

If they want a war so badly, maybe they should be given a real one, or two, or three. 

Maybe Dick Cheney, and his doctrine of perpetual, preemptive war, wasn’t such an idiot after all. 

But the truth is–there is a war going on, but it is not what they suspect it to be. The war is not against racism, or inequality, or slavery or religion. It is not against people, not against flesh and blood. It is a spiritual war– good against evil, good against principalities, against strongholds, against spirits, and against evil.

It is the real war. And they have joined a side, maybe without even realizing it.

Therefore they do have a great war. They have chosen war against us, their own people.

Never stopping to realize that they are on the side of anarchy and destruction. Never stopping to realize, that as Jesus said: A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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Why do the Godless Converge in Cities?

“In place of a true-type people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman…”

― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West 

They say that rats and other animals, when placed in overcrowded conditions, begin to act aggressively and immediately develop tics, anxieties and violent behavior. It is the “iron prison” effect. They fight against each other and no longer cease to work as a cohesive community. They become warlike.

Think of the city layout itself, for example. The hallways and streets are narrow and high, leaving no room for negotiation or freedom of movement. You have the feeling of being funneled from one location to another, like a chicken being moved into a coop by a farmer with a rake. The only rebellion against this oppressive system is criminality. An open mind is a crime in such a narrow, gray world. 

Think about this: they never see wide open spaces, grassy fields, expansive rural scenes. Their visual horizons have no depth to them. They are never looking for depth, never looking deeper than the row of reflective windows before them that delivers their own reflection back to them. No wonder they lack a natural curiosity for metaphysical things. Meta means extra, remember. Deeper, in fact.

City dwellers never see the glory of the heavens. They look up and see only pockets of darkness. Even in the light of day, smog obscures their view of the ocean of sky above them. It is hard to appreciate the spiritual glory of the heavens when you are so penned in. It is not that their minds are closed up, but their world is literally closed up.

The city dweller lives in an artificial edifice, for the most part. They are surrounded by concrete, glass, iron and pavement. They run the obstacle course, navigating deftly through their world of man-made objects. Not often do they see the full glory of creation, but only what they themselves have created. It is no wonder they see themselves as gods. 

Perhaps this is the reason for their attraction to socialism and leftism. They only see man’s response to the question of life, to the question of time. Everywhere they look they see man’s creation, every which way they turn their head. And so they do not look for God’s wisdom, for God’s Spirit, and are not taught about God by nature. 

I think that happens because of the geographical structure of the city, as in, it is all lifeless cement, steel, windows, digital signage, cars, iron, etc. It is divorced from nature, and nature is God’s creation. They are inside the matrix of man’s creation all of the time, and therefore only see man’s creation, and man as God. 

The same could be said for the highly educated, or voracious readers of secular literature. They spend all of their time with their heads in man’s creative output, fictions, essays, articles. No exposure to the spirit of the prophetic word or the anointing on scripture, and so no longing for God’s spirit or an encounter with it.   

It is also a busy, rushed existence. There is no time for spiritual contemplation or silent meditation. Even in moments of rest, there is a television set roaring away, voiding out independent thoughts as soon as they come. There is no time for wonder in such a constricted and ordered life. 

But, to be honest, I think the godless converge in cities because they are seeking to build a great and mighty Babel tower of their own secular ideas. They are aiming to build a new heaven and new earth. The city affords them this opportunity, as it promises unlimited advancement and a big dosage of optimistic fervor. It is already like a city on a hill. They feel halfway there. Soon they will reach heaven, they think.