COUNTING THE COST

We are told that we are entering a ‘new age’. An age of tolerance and enlightenment. Tolerance for anything, that is, so long as you don’t happen to have the extremely bad taste to be a Christian. Christianity, you see, is based upon a set of absolute truths. Something that just cannot be tolerated in a day and age where anything goes. Of course, it isn’t just Christians who are criticized, they also reserve that right for anyone who doesn’t go along with their twisted, illogical, politically-correct agenda for whatever reason.

I, for one, happen to believe that there are certain absolute truths. Truths that you can and should base your life on. Our forefathers believed in those absolute truths. They not only believed in them, they were willing to fight and die to preserve them, both for themselves and for their children. But the world has bought into the lie. It has drunk the poison. It has gone mad. The absurdity of its thinking is beyond any sense of reason or logic.

For instance, pity the poor girl who has bought into the lie of ‘safe sex’. She’s heard it preached from the pulpits of the public schools, from the movies, from society in general, for as long as she can remember.

Suppose one day, this young girl and her boyfriend of the moment indulge in their ‘right’ to enjoy the pleasures of non-marital bliss. No big deal. Everybody’s doing it. Even her parents, in many cases, have bought into the lie that ‘living for the moment’ and sex outside of marriage has no consequences. They’ve been told it’s a natural, basic instinct and that they can’t control those urges, so they might as well give into them, right?

Most of the time they use some form of birth control, the liberal thinkers idea of virginity. You’re pure and safe if you ‘use something’. Of course, they don’t bother to tell them that those things don’t always work and the guys don’t always want to be inconvenienced by them.

Anyway, suddenly this young girl finds herself pregnant and alone. She’s been taught not to trust her parents. They are, in essence, the enemy. They’re just old 'fuddy-duddies' who don’t understand and want to spoil her fun. And the love of her life? He’s gone. He just wanted some fun, not a commitment. So now what? According to our ’enlightened’ leaders, she’s supposed to have an abortion.

Suddenly this child who’s been consistently told by those in authority that she's old enough to do whatever she wants and doesn't have to listen to, or answer to, those who love and care about her, is told she’s not really all that grown up after all. She’s told she’s too young to be saddled with a baby.

Now, this child who has been encouraged to do whatever she wants with her own body is told that she’s too young to bear the consequences of that grown-up act they encouraged her to commit. Suddenly this child has been told the truth, by those who have lied to her most of her life.

She’s been told that she is only a child, that she has her whole life in front of her, why ruin it, they’ll say. Why should she be ’burdened’ with that mere ‘product of conception’? She should just get rid of it. Go on with her life. By then, she’s probably known or heard of other girls having an abortion. It’s no big deal, she's told, just a simple procedure and no one, least of all her parents, needs to know. But, if it’s no big deal, why does she suddenly feel as though it is?

To add more drama, suppose the girl waivers between her natural instinct to love, nurture and protect the child and her instinct for self preservation . . . the urge to hide her mistake. What if she takes too long deciding what to do? She is after all confused, torn. What if she has the child in secret? It’s happened.

Suppose that then, out of fear and desperation, she decides to do away with the child herself. From the moment she buys into that sin, she is condemned, even by her liberal-thinking 'safe-sex pushers’, as a cold-blooded murderer.

But what’s changed, if she’d displayed the ‘good sense’, even up to the moment of birth, to have a doctor rid her of 'that little problem', she would have been lauded for making the right choice, at least according to their ‘Alice-through the Looking Glass’ logic.

What absurdity! No wonder our children are so confused, with such illogical, irrational, nonsensical, twisted, ‘situational thinking’ coming from those who claim to be the new age moral authorities. Those who claim to be ‘beacons of truth’ for the modern, non-puritanical thinkers.

If that is the best we can expect of these ‘gurus’ of modern thinking, how can we expect any better of our children. The result is the same, the only difference a little matter of who actually murdered the child, the doctor or the mother.

If the mother did it, it’s a crime, if the abortionist did it, then it’s perfectly legal and somebody has made a nice, tidy profit from this child’s tragedy. A tragedy they propagated and we have allowed them to get away with at our children and our society's expense. It is a perfect example of how far down the path of corporate insanity we have come and all I can say is may God have mercy on us all. -- ©2000 Rachel Whelan

But whosoever shall cause one of these little ones which believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea. - Matthew 18:6