NOTICE: The following
article is written by the author itself and not by me, I am not trying to
violate their copyright. I will give some information on them. I chose this as
the article on Pro Life of the month, as on this date, 20 November 1945, the Nuremberg Trials began at the Palace of Justice.
PAGE TITLE: http://www.americanclarion.com/
ARTICLE
TITLE:
The Fourth Reich: Abortion Holocaust
DATE: Sunday July 8, 2012
AUTHOR: J. Matt Barber
AUTHOR
INFORMATION: Matt Barber is an attorney concentrating in
constitutional law. He is author of the book “The Right Hook – From the Ring to the
Culture War” and serves as Director of Cultural Affairs with both Liberty Counsel and Liberty Alliance Action, and
Associate Dean with Liberty University School of Law.
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I recently finished reading “Bonhoeffer”
by Eric Metaxas. The book, a nearly 600-page biography of German pastor and
influential theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was simply life-changing.
Throughout his page-turning treatise, Metaxas brilliantly illustrates how
Bonhoeffer lived and died by Christ’s admonition, “faith without works is dead”
(James 2:20).
Although Bonhoeffer penned a number of widely
read books on theology and Christian apologetics, he is chiefly remembered for
his key role in one of several German conspiracies to assassinate Adolf Hitler
and overthrow the Nazi regime. For this he was captured and hanged just weeks
before the end of World War II.
It seems natural at this point to trek into
“must read” book review territory; however, I will resist that temptation.
Although “Bonhoeffer” kicked open the door to any number of theological,
philosophical and political themes, it struck another cord with me entirely.
As I read of Bonhoeffer’s efforts to thwart
the genocidal slaughter of millions of Jews, disabled people and other “enemies
of the State,” I could not help but recognize the parallels between the vast
holocaust carried out in Nazi Germany just decades ago and the modern-day
holocaust ongoing within our own shores.
Whereas the Nazis were responsible for the wholesale
murder of more than 6 million Jews, those today who support the practice of
abortion homicide are no less complicit in the systematic slaughter of
55-million-and-counting equally precious human beings post Roe v. Wade. The parallels
are undeniable and the science unequivocal. Murder is murder whatever stage of
development the human victim.
The stark similarities between the two
holocausts were lost on neither Dietrich Bonhoeffer nor Eric Metaxas.
“Destruction of the embryo in the mother’s womb is a violation of the right to
live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life,” wrote Bonhoeffer in
“Ethics,” his very last book.
“To raise the question whether we are here
concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The
simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that
this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that
is nothing but murder,” he concluded.
Indeed, Psalm 139:13 says, “For you created
my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
So it occurs to me that those who call
themselves “pro-life” and put faith to action in defense of innocent persons –
as did Dietrich Bonhoeffer – honor both the memory of this Christian martyr and
the God he served. They have picked up his mantle. They are continuing his
noble work.
By contrast, if pro-lifers are modern-day
Dietrich Bonhoeffers, then what does that make abortion supporters? In the
years leading up to and during World War II, many Germans – who were otherwise
generally good people – succumbed to Nazi propaganda and acquiesced to the
horrific Jewish persecution that escalated from a slow boil to a red-hot
torrent around them. In effect, they bought into exactly the same kind of
dehumanizing, euphemistic semantical garbage embraced by those who today call
themselves “pro-choice.”
Mind-boggling is the human capacity to
rationalize genocide.
On Feb. 2, 2012, Eric Metaxas gave the
keynote address at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. He
was clearly inspired and influenced by the subject of his latest biography.
Sharing the stage and sitting merely feet
away was Barack Obama, the most radically pro-abortion president in U.S.
history. In a spectacular show of resolve and moxie, Metaxas walked over to the
president and handed him a copy of “Bonhoeffer.” He then launched into one of
the most powerful
and stirring speeches I’ve ever heard.
While President Obama squirmed nervously in
his seat, Metaxas addressed both his book and the abortion holocaust with
incisive clarity, saying, in part, “We are capable of the same horrible things.
… Apart from God we cannot see that they (the unborn) are persons as well. So
those of us who know the unborn to be human beings are commanded by God to love
those who do not yet see that. We need to know that apart from God we would be
on the other side of that divide, fighting for what we believe is right. We
cannot demonize our enemies. Today, if you believe abortion is wrong, you must
treat those on the other side with the love of Jesus.”
Indeed, we are admonished in Scripture to
pray for our enemies – to love those who do evil.
Nonetheless, we are also commanded to speak
truth. We are told to hate that which is evil and to fight – indeed to die if
necessary – for that which is good.
I will, no doubt, be accused of demonizing
abortion supporters by equating abortion genocide to the Nazi Holocaust. I will
be charged with violating “Godwin’s law” which holds that: “As a
Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving
Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”
That’s fine.
Still, my comparison is not intended to be an
ad hominem attack. In fact, it’s not an attack at all. It simply is what it is.
To identify the undeniable juxtaposition between the Nazi and abortion
holocausts respectively is to make use of the best analogy available. I can
think of no more fitting a comparison. If the shoe fits and all that.
Indeed, ours is a holocaust no less real – no
less evil than that perpetrated by the Nazi regime. We’ve simply moved from the
gas chambers to the abortion clinic – from Auschwitz to Planned Parenthood.
I love America. She’s the greatest nation on
earth. Nonetheless, as long as we continue to allow this enduring slaughter of
the most innocent among us, we are no better than was Nazi Germany. Abortion on
demand will be viewed by our progeny as the single greatest blight on our
American heritage.
To live under Roe v. Wade is to live in
shame. To live under pro-abortion leadership is to live under the Fourth Reich.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.quoteswave.com/picture-quotes/410567)
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