Today in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Governor Sarah Palin spoke about her views on protecting the most vulnerable in our society. Go here to see this beautiful talk on a video from CNN.
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Showing posts with label abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abortion. Show all posts
10.11.2008
1.22.2008
Abortion: The Glory of Satan
Thirty-five years ago began the reign of terror of abortion on demand in this country resulting in the murder of tens of millions of innocent babies; on top of that, it has left a moral and spiritual wasteland for all of us, particularly those who have sold their soul to promote, encourage, defend, and commit the great sin of the slaughter of the in-utero innocents.
The glory of God is man fully alive. We glorify God when we bear good fruit; ultimately, we glorify God when we lay down our life for another and when we witness to His truth at the cost of our own blood in martyrdom. We glorify Him in becoming a self-sacrificing lover; parents glorify Him as they make the daily multitude of sacrifices required to raise a family well; we glorify Him at Mass as we receive Him in the Holy Eucharist with pure and loving hearts so that we can have the grace to do what He did.
On this day of infamy, it is worth asking this question to better understand the battle we are in: What is the glory of Satan? He hates mankind with a passion beyond understanding, and he loves to see our destruction. God loves us, and Satan hates us. At a most basic level, Satan loves to mock the things God holds most dear. Satan’s glory is in the mockery of God.
We are made to be God’s children, God’s temple, and God’s spouse. Satan wants to reduce us down to mere animals, even less than animals. He seeks to depersonalize us, making us objects for use. He mocks our exalted dignity trying whatever he can to drag us into the mud. The main tool at his disposal is to desecrate sex, making it all about self-gratification and turning it into nothing other than another one of our bodily needs just like eating, drinking and sleeping. He wants us to think it is a basic need that we should meet with whomever or whatever, whenever and however we want; there is no morality associated with sex. That is the lie he has been promoting, especially the past two generations.
Of course, that kind of “thinking” about sex leads to many other problems. Normally, sex has very serious consequences, consequences which should not accompany the simple satisfaction of a bodily necessity. Those consequences have to be eliminated. The first line of defense against these unsightly results is usually the grave evil of contraception. When that doesn’t work, the logical step to deal with the problem is abortion.
Abortion is the great mockery of fatherhood and motherhood. Children learn about who God is and how He acts by knowing who their parents are and how they act, especially who and how the father acts. In certain respects, parents are God to their children. In abortion, parents willingly murder their own children; this is not an image of who God is but of who Satan is. Satan, from the beginning, is a murderous father; those who commit abortion of their own children imitate the evil one. Abortion is one of the highest forms of satanic worship; herein we find his glory.
The evil one is glorified when parents take the life of their children, and this is an act of worship of him and of uniting oneself to him. I assume most people do not realize that, but that is what is happening. He is mocking fathers and mothers, and ultimately, he is mocking God the Father. God the Father gives life, and the evil one destroys it; he even entices the very ones who should be the ones to cherish and protect life, the life which springs from their very own flesh, he entices these very ones to mercilessly destroy that life. It is hard to think of a higher victory for Satan than when parents murder their unborn children.
The other primary way that Satan mocks God is the black mass. My understanding of the black mass is that the words of the Mass are said backward and it ends with the desecration of the Holy Eucharist. Jesus is the Divine Spouse who gives us His Body in the Mass; Satan is mocking God’s Fatherhood and God as mankind’s Spouse. He is mocking the self-sacrificing and life-giving act of Jesus offering Himself up as our Passover Lamb. It is the formal rejection of God and His gift of Himself to us.
There are a number of parallels between the black mass and abortion, as there are a number of parallels between the Mass and having children. My goal tonight is to shed some light on the dark deed of abortion. There is much more that could be said. As with any sin, the important thing is to see and understand the true nature of the act so as to be better equipped to enlighten others and guide them away from sin. It is God’s work to judge the hearts of those who commit the sin; God has given us the intellect and the grace to judge the actions to empower us to prevent their happening.
The battle to end abortion is, from beginning to end, a spiritual battle, a battle attempting to put an end to a “high” form of satanic worship. It will only be won on our knees and at the cost of great sacrifice by those who love God. I believe it could be more easily won with a small army of victim souls who will offer themselves up for its cessation. If you are not willing to be a victim soul in totality, are you willing to offer up all the many trials and difficulties of your days as sacrifices to God for the end of this scourge? Each of us plays a part in either its continuation or its end; none of us are innocent bystanders.
Thanks for reading and your prayers.
Copyright 2007.
All rights reserved.
The glory of God is man fully alive. We glorify God when we bear good fruit; ultimately, we glorify God when we lay down our life for another and when we witness to His truth at the cost of our own blood in martyrdom. We glorify Him in becoming a self-sacrificing lover; parents glorify Him as they make the daily multitude of sacrifices required to raise a family well; we glorify Him at Mass as we receive Him in the Holy Eucharist with pure and loving hearts so that we can have the grace to do what He did.
On this day of infamy, it is worth asking this question to better understand the battle we are in: What is the glory of Satan? He hates mankind with a passion beyond understanding, and he loves to see our destruction. God loves us, and Satan hates us. At a most basic level, Satan loves to mock the things God holds most dear. Satan’s glory is in the mockery of God.
We are made to be God’s children, God’s temple, and God’s spouse. Satan wants to reduce us down to mere animals, even less than animals. He seeks to depersonalize us, making us objects for use. He mocks our exalted dignity trying whatever he can to drag us into the mud. The main tool at his disposal is to desecrate sex, making it all about self-gratification and turning it into nothing other than another one of our bodily needs just like eating, drinking and sleeping. He wants us to think it is a basic need that we should meet with whomever or whatever, whenever and however we want; there is no morality associated with sex. That is the lie he has been promoting, especially the past two generations.
Of course, that kind of “thinking” about sex leads to many other problems. Normally, sex has very serious consequences, consequences which should not accompany the simple satisfaction of a bodily necessity. Those consequences have to be eliminated. The first line of defense against these unsightly results is usually the grave evil of contraception. When that doesn’t work, the logical step to deal with the problem is abortion.
Abortion is the great mockery of fatherhood and motherhood. Children learn about who God is and how He acts by knowing who their parents are and how they act, especially who and how the father acts. In certain respects, parents are God to their children. In abortion, parents willingly murder their own children; this is not an image of who God is but of who Satan is. Satan, from the beginning, is a murderous father; those who commit abortion of their own children imitate the evil one. Abortion is one of the highest forms of satanic worship; herein we find his glory.
The evil one is glorified when parents take the life of their children, and this is an act of worship of him and of uniting oneself to him. I assume most people do not realize that, but that is what is happening. He is mocking fathers and mothers, and ultimately, he is mocking God the Father. God the Father gives life, and the evil one destroys it; he even entices the very ones who should be the ones to cherish and protect life, the life which springs from their very own flesh, he entices these very ones to mercilessly destroy that life. It is hard to think of a higher victory for Satan than when parents murder their unborn children.
The other primary way that Satan mocks God is the black mass. My understanding of the black mass is that the words of the Mass are said backward and it ends with the desecration of the Holy Eucharist. Jesus is the Divine Spouse who gives us His Body in the Mass; Satan is mocking God’s Fatherhood and God as mankind’s Spouse. He is mocking the self-sacrificing and life-giving act of Jesus offering Himself up as our Passover Lamb. It is the formal rejection of God and His gift of Himself to us.
There are a number of parallels between the black mass and abortion, as there are a number of parallels between the Mass and having children. My goal tonight is to shed some light on the dark deed of abortion. There is much more that could be said. As with any sin, the important thing is to see and understand the true nature of the act so as to be better equipped to enlighten others and guide them away from sin. It is God’s work to judge the hearts of those who commit the sin; God has given us the intellect and the grace to judge the actions to empower us to prevent their happening.
The battle to end abortion is, from beginning to end, a spiritual battle, a battle attempting to put an end to a “high” form of satanic worship. It will only be won on our knees and at the cost of great sacrifice by those who love God. I believe it could be more easily won with a small army of victim souls who will offer themselves up for its cessation. If you are not willing to be a victim soul in totality, are you willing to offer up all the many trials and difficulties of your days as sacrifices to God for the end of this scourge? Each of us plays a part in either its continuation or its end; none of us are innocent bystanders.
Thanks for reading and your prayers.
Copyright 2007.
All rights reserved.
11.24.2007
Wife Stealing
I ended yesterday saying I would say a word about wife stealing. Wife stealing is a particular form of adultery, there being other forms of adultery. The theme of wife stealing comes up rather often, especially in the first half of the book of Genesis. I think this rather common theme has its origin in the Fall, and, as I see it, whatever happened at the Fall is repeated throughout history. The die was cast at the Fall, and all the problems we have today and all the problems people have had throughout history, have their source and origin in the Fall. If we clearly understand the Fall, we can more clearly understand ourselves, others and history, not to mention all that Jesus did and how He heals us today. Jesus is the precise antidote to our precise problems.
When the man and the woman disobey the singular prohibition from God and trust in the wisdom of the serpent and have sexual relations in order to have a child, they forsake God and cling to the evil one. It is a form of spiritual adultery. This theme is repeated many times throughout Scripture with the image of Israel playing the harlot after other gods. From the man and the woman's perspective, they were unfaithful to their true spouse, God, and are adulterers. From the serpent's perspective, he is a wife stealer. Man was made to be the spouse of God, but satan enters the picture and entices him away from God. The serpent deceives the man and woman into trusting him and his wisdom, and so he captures the heart of the spouse of God and takes her away with himself.
The primal spouse-stealer is satan. The end result of the Fall is that God has lost His bride. The rest of salvation history is God's work to get her back, to redeem her from her oppressive, murderous master. God goes so far as to die for us in order to win us back to Himself. Satan's goal is to keep us united to himself, cut off from God, and without hope of eternal life with God in heaven; he simply wants to destroy us. God wants us to be fully alive and happy with Him and all the angels and saints without end.
I will save giving examples of spouse-stealing for now; the point I want to make about it beyond what I have already written is that spouse-stealing as adultery is tantamount to murder. I believe that much of the Bible is written in a parallel format known as chiasm; the most important points of a chiasm are located in the middle or heart. The format is something like: A, B, C, D, E, E', D', C', B', A', with E and E' being the heart of the argument. What is at the heart of the Ten Commandments, position five and six? They are not to murder and not to commit adultery. They are the heart of the Ten Commandments, and represent exactly what was most wrong with the Fall: our first parents committed adultery in relation to God, and they, in a real sense, murdered the human race.
In many respects, murder and adultery were basically the same thing in the mind of the Jews, and rightly so. The laws of the Old Testament consider the two sins as being very similar receiving the same sort of punishment. To a certain extent, they are two sides of the same coin. And this mentality toward these two deadly sins is precisely the same as the Ten Commandments themselves since they are in the fifth and sixth position. Adultery and murder go hand in hand (a good example from the Bible is, of course, the story of David and Bathsheba), and so today these two sins have been running rampant and virtually unchecked. This is remarkably so when considering fornication as a form of adultery and abortion as the murder of the unborn. We are a society of fornicators, adulterers, and murderers (even if we ourselves have not had an abortion, so many have participated in this grave sin by supporting and defending it as a so-called right).
I'll continue these thoughts another time.
Thanks for reading.
Copyright 2007.
When the man and the woman disobey the singular prohibition from God and trust in the wisdom of the serpent and have sexual relations in order to have a child, they forsake God and cling to the evil one. It is a form of spiritual adultery. This theme is repeated many times throughout Scripture with the image of Israel playing the harlot after other gods. From the man and the woman's perspective, they were unfaithful to their true spouse, God, and are adulterers. From the serpent's perspective, he is a wife stealer. Man was made to be the spouse of God, but satan enters the picture and entices him away from God. The serpent deceives the man and woman into trusting him and his wisdom, and so he captures the heart of the spouse of God and takes her away with himself.
The primal spouse-stealer is satan. The end result of the Fall is that God has lost His bride. The rest of salvation history is God's work to get her back, to redeem her from her oppressive, murderous master. God goes so far as to die for us in order to win us back to Himself. Satan's goal is to keep us united to himself, cut off from God, and without hope of eternal life with God in heaven; he simply wants to destroy us. God wants us to be fully alive and happy with Him and all the angels and saints without end.
I will save giving examples of spouse-stealing for now; the point I want to make about it beyond what I have already written is that spouse-stealing as adultery is tantamount to murder. I believe that much of the Bible is written in a parallel format known as chiasm; the most important points of a chiasm are located in the middle or heart. The format is something like: A, B, C, D, E, E', D', C', B', A', with E and E' being the heart of the argument. What is at the heart of the Ten Commandments, position five and six? They are not to murder and not to commit adultery. They are the heart of the Ten Commandments, and represent exactly what was most wrong with the Fall: our first parents committed adultery in relation to God, and they, in a real sense, murdered the human race.
In many respects, murder and adultery were basically the same thing in the mind of the Jews, and rightly so. The laws of the Old Testament consider the two sins as being very similar receiving the same sort of punishment. To a certain extent, they are two sides of the same coin. And this mentality toward these two deadly sins is precisely the same as the Ten Commandments themselves since they are in the fifth and sixth position. Adultery and murder go hand in hand (a good example from the Bible is, of course, the story of David and Bathsheba), and so today these two sins have been running rampant and virtually unchecked. This is remarkably so when considering fornication as a form of adultery and abortion as the murder of the unborn. We are a society of fornicators, adulterers, and murderers (even if we ourselves have not had an abortion, so many have participated in this grave sin by supporting and defending it as a so-called right).
I'll continue these thoughts another time.
Thanks for reading.
Copyright 2007.
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