“For lack of guidance a nation falls, but many advisers make victory sure” Solomon [Proverbs 11:14]
Professor R.J. Rummel’s most authoritative book titled ‘Death by Governments’ [1994], estimated that from 1900 to 1987, governments [mostly secular], murdered more than 169 million people, which far exceeded the 34 million deaths estimated to have been caused by both international and civil wars occurring during the same period. He estimated also that Hitler, Mao, and Stalin killed more than 100 million people. Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his insightful book titled: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century (1993) estimates that Communism killed 60 million people. He compares that stat to the 32,000 deaths of the Spanish inquisition, and to the 1-4 million deaths of the Crusades. We can add to this the horror of more than 45 million abortions per year worldwide [some estimates put the total number of abortions currently at well over 1 Billion babies – roughly 55% legal, and 45% illegal]. In an article titled “Most teenage pregnancies now end with an abortion,” Steve Doughty of Mail Online highlights the escalating problem of pregnancies by design [http://www.dailymail.co.uk]. To compare all of the above, to the estimated 17 million deaths [each one too costly] caused by so-called professing Christians for the entire 2000 years since the birth of Christ, is ridiculous [http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw01christianity.htm]. In addition, not all professing Christians are true to the Christian ethic. Humankind has the least to fear from those who acknowledge their sin, and who invite Jesus Christ into their hearts to teach them to love others as He does! Born again Christians today do not call purveyors of death of any kind ‘heroes’, even if they are professing Christians. They, on the contrary, repudiate all acts that do not engender love toward others of every culture or faith. Viewed in this light, the issue of abortion has less to do with what a pregnant mother thinks, but whether a new life will be protected, even if that were to produce a twenty-year ‘inconvenience’ for the mother! It should follow that if a fetus cannot choose his/her own lifespan, neither should anyone else [including his/her mother]. Professor Singer of Princeton university, the secular humanist, prefers killing disabled babies and to replace them with non-disabled babies [see MQ, [or moral quotient], p. 50].
The above statistics should conclusively prove that if there is anything to fear it is the secular. By contrast, the secularists have nothing to fear from Christians, since it is the Christian’s godly duty to serve them and love them. Morality is a key factor in determining reasons for deaths. History has shown that life without a standard of values obtained from outside us unravels human behavior into a whole assortment of secular ills such as Racism, Nazism, Nationalism, Imperialism, Secularism, Fascism, Communism, narcissism, fears of miscegenation, and eugenics. All of these are implicated in the lust for power born of self-corruption [Lewis Mumford][see MQ, p. 56]. We can all be thankful today that none of these have yet fully succeeded in gaining the control they desired. C. S. Lewis calls this a kind of Magician’s Bargain – a process whereby ‘man’ surrenders object after object, and finally himself, to Nature in return for power. Those who clamor for unrestricted freedom of expression should ask themselves at what point does the range of their swinging arm hit someone else on the nose [Centore]. Professor Singer has suggested that by 2040 “the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological developments” except for “only a rump of hard-core, know-nothing religious fundamentalists” [see MQ, pp. 48-49]. C. S. Lewis’ writes that if one age achieves the power, by eugenics and scientific education, to make its descendants whatever it likes, all men who live after it are patients of that power – they are weaker and not stronger [Abolition of Man, p. 68]!
Marci McDonald, author of “The Armageddon factor” [http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indepthanalysis/wendymesley/] speaks of the danger of the ‘incremental effect’ of Christian thinking in Canadian politics in a way that makes it sound like a threat to our peace, and a disadvantage to our freedom. By contrast, Christian leaders are more likely to rule wisely through seeking the advice of others, since to be wisely accountable is at the heart of their Christianity [MQ, Chap. 9]. Christians are rather simply people who have acknowledged the futility of living out values that benefit others without the God who gave humankind the values in the first place. It matters not whether they are in government, they simply stand in an intimate relationship with him. They mean to be an example of love by which others may freely choose to follow God. In the midst of such environments of mutual respect and honor may lay the only means the principles of justice for all, fairness to all, and love through all are lived out effectively. Loys [www.loysblog.com]
