This week’s post is the second half of a 2 part series. If you haven’t read “plan a”, go back and read last week’s post.

Have you ever had this conversation?

Turn right in 100 yards
Uh huh

Turn right in 50 yards
Uh huh

Turn right now
Nah

Make a u-turn at 48th street
Yeah

Make a u-turn at 46th street
I don’t think so

Make a u-turn at 44th street
Where’s the volume control?

Make a u-turn at 42nd street
Can somebody shut her up!

Make a u-turn at 40th street
#@!%&^*

Recalculating

I don’t claim to know whether God knew that we were going to mess things up from the start or whether he was surprised by our behavior. But, if you compare the old testament with the new testament, it is pretty clear that God has done some “recalculating” in order to deal with the reality of our situation.

I call this plan b.

The reality of our current situation is that God had a plan for us that was ideal (the garden of Eden……or ….. plan a). Unfortunately, we had other ideas that have resulted in the messed up world that we live in today. We try hard to fix things…… but they just keep getting worse. I try to extrapolate our current path into the future and I have to say that I’m not optimistic. I generally avoid this topic with my kids……. but they tell me that my generation has wrecked things for them. They will have to clean up our (that is the baby boomer’s) mess……or at least try to. The reality is that they probably won’t do any better at it than we did.

How has God handled our behavior? What is God to do with rebellious children? He has a problem strangely familiar to any parent of teens.  From my limited perspective, he has a few options.

1. Burn it down and start all over.
2. Compromise himself….. that is……lower himself to our level.
3. Find a “workaround”…….sort of a detour that leaves the mess in place but allows us to ultimately get to where he…… and we want to be.

Christianity teaches that God chose option 3…… and I’m glad he did. Option 1, the cosmic “redo”, and option 2, a God who behaves as badly as we do, are not very appealing.

So what does option 3…….. “plan b” …….look like?

God clarifies and simplifies the rules:

He sent a mentor, Christ, who teaches “love God and love your fellow man”. Hard to argue with that.

Christ takes possession of all of the wrong that we have done, that we are doing, and that we will do.  A pretty sweet deal.

I don’t know how this works. It seems to be a deal between Christ and his Father. But, the result is that…… from God’s point of view……. we are made clean.  It almost feels like a trick……….. but if it’s good enough for God………it’s good enough for me.

There is a condition.

We have to humble ourselves, recognize Christ’s gift, and ask for it.

Plan b is amazingly simple………. and yet hard. We are not by nature humble creatures. We believe that we are the center of it all…… and we don’t want to give that up…. even in the face of overwhelming evidence that we have messed it all up. Our inability to step away from the center of the universe and to humble ourselves before the creator……. that is to say……..our arrogance ……….is all that stands between us and the destiny that we were created for.

There are 5 foundational ideas….pillars…… of Christianity:

Creation

You are not a biochemical accident. You were created intentionally. Don’t get hung up on 6000 years vs. 400 million years. Focus on intentional creation vs. accidental biochemistry.

Love

God loves you…..he wants you to love him & your neighbor. Pretty basic. If you remember nothing else……. know this.

Eternity

There is something waiting for you after your brief human life. It will last forever……..and you have the gift of choice. But, your choice is not between nothing and paradise. Your choice is between paradise and something very unpleasant. Even scientists believe in eternity…….some of them just don’t believe that you will be there.

Good and Evil

There are 2 forces at work in this world…….good and evil. You feel it in your heart. You know this to be true. You know good and evil exist. But, if you look closely at them, you can see that they act as though there is an intelligence and a motivation behind them. In a word, they behave as though they were alive. Christianity teaches that God is the active intentional force behind good……and that Satan is the active intentional force behind evil. Christianity looks past the secondary display of good and evil in our world to the primary motivating forces behind them…….God and Satan. In short, Christianity teaches that good and evil are not simple descriptors of things in our physical world. They are alive. They are active in our world. There is intelligence and motivation behind them. They have a plan for you. They have a plan for your future.

You are wanted

God, the active intelligence behind good and Satan, the active intelligence behind evil want you. It’s like 2 giant Madison Avenue advertising firms trying to get you to buy their brand of cereal.

Choice

You have free will. You get to decide. There is a lot going on that is beyond your control. There is a lot of stuff that you don’t get to choose. You are often pushed around by situations that you cannot manage. But, on the truly important issues, you have complete control. You have the absolute power to choose your destiny.

So……. you were created…….you are loved……..you are ,at least in part, eternal……..you are immersed in good and evil………you are wanted.

And you get to choose your destiny.

Stay tuned for plan B.

I’ve been struggling.

Someone I know has hurt somebody I care for. The crime is big enough that it will take years, maybe decades,  to repair the damage. I am angry.  And I know where he lives.

I began by being angry about the unfairness of it…….. the injustice of it. I was angry about the pain and sadness that it caused. I was angry that a criminal had profited and that a good person had been harmed. I was angry that the systems in place, the law, the courts, and the police were not bringing justice to bear. I wanted the criminal punished……..now.

So far…..so good.

I am, by nature, a fixer. I think that all of us are, too a degree……especially men. In my frustration at the unfairness of the situation, I began to consider how I could fix this injustice. I began to consider how to help the police. But, as my frustration grew, I began to dwell on ways that I could bring this mess to a just conclusion. Before long I was fantasizing on ways to hurt the criminal…….. ways that were far beyond the call of justice. Looking back I had quietly slipped down the slope from unfairness……. to injustice….. to frustration…….. to anger and finally to vengeance. I found myself in a very black place. How did I get there? There was no instant of transition. Each step was logical, appropriate and, worst of all, very comfortable. Nobody suggested this path to me. It came from somewhere deep inside of me. I can now see that the blackness was there inside me all along,  waiting quietly for a situation like this to wake it up.

I think that the black place is there in all of us. It always has been. It is part of our human nature. It is just as much a part of us as generosity, honor, and love. In a way, just as there is a little piece of God in each of us, there is a little piece of Satan as well. How we run our lives hinges largely on how we balance these two sides of our nature. Some people spend most of their time in the black place, others dwell mostly in the light. Most of us move back and forth……. without giving it much thought.

A wise old indian said to his grandson:

“I feel like there are two wolves fighting inside of me…..one is kindness, generosity and love…… the other is anger, hatred, and vengeance.”

The boy said: “Grandpa…… which one will win? ”

The old man replied: “The one that I feed.”

I will try to feed the better side of my nature. In our public conversation, I feel that we have, at the insistence of the angry talking heads in the media, fed the baser side of our natures. We need to, as a nation and as individuals, turn back from the slide down the slope to anger. This is a choice that we can make. We can WILL this to be so……….. even if the other guy doesn’t. Even if the criminal is unrepentant. Even if we are unable to heal the world, we can heal ourselves

“Lord help me to feed the better side of my nature.”

“Lord please heal the criminal who harmed my family.”

There is an old idea. This was around when I was a kid.

“If you give enough monkeys enough typewriters and enough time…… they will type the encyclopedia Brittanica.” This is the exact logic that is used to justify darwinian evolution. If you give a pile of simple dead atoms enough time, they will assemble themselves into Angelina Jolie. Enough time essentially means an infinite amount of time.

You can tell how old this statement is because typewriters and encyclopedias pretty much no longer exist. The idea, however, is that given an infinite time frame, the extremely unlikely ……even the impossible…….can happen.

This is a flawed idea; but, we use it every day to justify darwinian evolution. The idea is flawed because we apply the theoretical concept of infinity to the concrete, finite physical world.

It is true that, given an infinite number of attempts…… that is, an infinite amount of time, you could assemble the 400 billion chemical bonds of the human genome by random accident. It is also true that with an infinite amount of time we could build a just, fair, peaceful society.

The problem is that infinity is a theoretical concept. It does not exist in our physical world. Things that are theoretically possible in infinity are not possible in our finite world.

So…….darwinian evolution is possible given an infinite time frame. But, an infinite time frame is a theoretical concept that does not exist is our finite physical world.

This failure of logic would be an entertaining mental exercise if the stakes were not so high.

We use flawed logic to “prove” darwinism.

We use darwinism to eliminate the need for God.

We fire God because we no longer need him.

We get to do whatever we want.

All is well………..until we meet God.

Someday I will meet God………. and it will be fabulous……worth dying for.

My hope is to make that meeting with God a joyous event for as many people as possible.

My great fear is that I may have friends and acquaintances for whom it could be uncomfortable.

My great fear is that I will have failed them.

As I think about Christianity, I try to boil it down to its essentials. What is the very heart of my faith? In one word, I think it must be love. I think that this is written on our hearts. We are born with a need for love. And love is inseparable from joy. In short we are hard-wired to love and be loved. The greatest joy that we as human beings…… children of God…….. can know is to love and to be loved. To love without being loved in return is a close second. If you think about it, love is central to a mature relationship with God.

So we need to explore love and joy. I have often said that I have the most valuable skill that a man can know. I have learned how to be happy……to live with joy. Surprisingly, this skill is not universal. In fact, it is uncommon enough that when we see somebody who is filled with joy we take notice.

So how do we become filled with joy? Try getting up tomorrow…… and telling yourself “Today I will be joyous!” Good luck……… we both know that it doesn’t work that way.
Joy just seems to happen. It often just sneaks up on you……right out of the blue. But, is there a way to put yourself in joy’s path……. to set yourself up for joy? I think that there is. And it has to do with the relationship between joy and love.

Joy grows out of love.

One of the rules that I live by is this: “When you are faced with a problem…… focus on the part of the problem that you can control.” I believe that joy comes from love. There is no lasting path to joy other than through love. I will concede that you can go out and buy something and experience a brief burst of joy. I experience this when I buy an exceptional new hand plane……. or a fishing rod…….. or a shotgun. Your list will be different. But, the rush of joy that you get from buying stuff lasts for hours……. days at the most. Shopaholics spend their lives and their money trying to buy lasting joy. Alcoholics try to drink it. You get the point.

So if love is the key to joy…….. then how do we find it? We cannot create love in others. We cannot MAKE people love us. We cannot buy love……and it’s about the only thing that we can’t find on line. So if we are to find love……we must focus on the part of the problem that we can control. And when it comes to love…… the only thing that we can control is how we love others. This is the genius of God, Christ, and the Holy spirit. This is the genius of Christianity.

Two “rules”…………Love God……Love your neighbor.

This is something you can control. You can WILL this to be. And when you do this…… trust me…….the joy will come. And even better……… the joy will stay.

So how do we love?

The heart of love is to focus on the well being of others. This means sometimes putting their needs ahead of your own. This often means forgiving their failures……. maybe even their crimes. If you do this well you may create joy in your target. You will create joy in yourself. I will concede that there are people who will stay angry and mean even after you love them……… love them anyway. The power of love………over time……….will wear them down…… and you will both be better for it.

1 Corinthians 13 includes the best description of love on this planet.

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”

This universal truth is a huge part of the reason that I am a Christian.

So……. you want joy? You want happiness?

Then love God and those around you. Do this by serving them and caring for them. The joy will come……… and it will endure……and it will spread.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist

Sometimes I find myself in conflict with Satan.

This conflict can come in many forms: temptation, addiction, hatred, vengeance, jealousy, dishonesty, infidelity, and many more. Sometimes he attacks you directly……. sometimes he attacks someone you love. We don’t like to think about the guy very much. But, Satan is very real and he is active in our world.

I often think of him as evil with a to-do list.

If you don’t believe in Satan or don’t feel any conflict with him, is it possible that you and he are travelling in the same direction?

Maybe he is not attacking you because he is satisfied with the path you are on. In other words, perhaps he has nothing to gain by messing with you. You don’t have to be a serial killer, a cheating spouse, a thief or a habitual liar. You just have to be distant from God or moving away from him. C.S.Lewis said it well in “the Screwtape Letters”, (advice to a young demon from his mentor, a senior demon):

“You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy (God). It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards will do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

Read the Bible and assess your path. Are you close to God……..or at least trying to get closer? Are you closer to him today than you were 5 years ago? If you need to make a change……..do so.

Change your direction and you just may bump into Satan.

Please understand, not everyone who is blessed with a happy peaceful life is on Satan’s path. Many, including myself, are simply blessed by God’s grace.

However, I am convinced that a great many people who are leading lives that look charmed and trouble free are doing so because Satan has nothing to gain by interfering with them.

I am not encouraging you to look for Satan in the lives of those who “have it made”. Rather, I want you to examine yourself. Assess your path. Where are you headed….toward the light or toward the nothing? Be sure that you are on God’s path or at least working toward it. When you are attacked, consider it a badge of honor…….. that Satan considers you to be such a problem…….. that attacking you is worth his trouble.

There is a philosophy among native Americans. It is that a warrior is judged by the quality of his enemies. If you hide under a rock, you will be safe. If you do nothing, nobody is going to attack you. You just aren’t worth the trouble. But, if you stand up and say something……do something…….build something,  then you become important enough……..perhaps dangerous enough to attract the attention of those who disagree with you…..those who have a different agenda. The more active…..the more dangerous….. that you are, the more opposition you will generate……..and the opposition will become more strident.

A few years ago, in my community, a company opened a store that sold pornography. There was a little grumbling, but not much. A few years later, a ministry opened a museum that taught that the world was created by God in 7 days just as the Bible says. There was an immediate uproar. The Creation Museum was broadly attacked in the media. The opposition tried to fight their zoning change. They objected to tax incentives. They laughed…….hard. Comedians came all of the way from New York City to ridicule the museum. All of this from people who were silent when the pornography shop opened.

So, if you are following………or seeking God, don’t be surprised if you meet resistance. In a way, the fact that you are under attack, means that somebody considers you to be dangerous to their agenda. Somebody sees you as an item on their To-Do list. Somebody considers you to be such a problem that you are worth the trouble of attacking.

Somewhere out there………….is an enemy you can be proud of.

Darwinian’s laugh at me…… often behind my back…….sometimes to my face.

I think that many Christians are so intimidated……. so afraid of the ridicule of the Darwinian’s that they don’t stand up for creation. Creation is critical………it is the defining act of God. It must be defended.

I believe that Darwinian evolution has done more damage to mankind in general, and to Christianity in particular, than anything else in human history. Once you accept this theory……..then there is absolutely no need for God. Once you get to that point, it is very easy to take the next step. Because you no longer need God……. you can deny/ignore/ minimalize him. Hundreds of millions of people have taken that next step. This is tragic. I believe that there will be more people in hell over Darwinism than over murder, rape, theft, lies, and hatred combined.

The first punch line that the Darwinist pulls out is “How old is the earth? Do you really believe that the earth is only 6000 years old? (Or 3000 or 9000….. you pick the number.) ”

That number comes from adding up 7 literal 24 hour days of creation plus the number of years that each man in our geneology lived. In short it comes from a literal interpretation of the bible. The scientists on the other hand tell us that the earth is hundreds of millions of years old. The difference is huge. How do we defend creation……. how do we reconcile those 2 numbers?

We all agree that about 6000 years ago….. give or take…… there were people on the earth. So let’s focus on the time before that. How long did it take to get from nothing to Adam & Eve? 7 days….. or hundreds of millions of years. How do we reconcile the bible’s explanation with the scientist’s explanation?

It seems to me that there are 3 ways to handle this:

1. The 7 days of creation are not literal days. Instead they represent 7 epochs……totalling up to hundreds of millions of years. The result is the world at the end of “day” 7…….roughly as we know it…… with Adam & Eve in the garden.

2. God created the world old. The universe is a very complicated place. Many of its systems are so delicately balanced and so completely interdependent that it is statistically impossible that they formed, one at a time, by accident. The cosmologists struggle with this problem. So…… God designed a finely balanced, interconnected, ecosystem and called it into being……already old. This means that all of the things that we dig up (yes……even the dinosaurs) were created right where we find them. They are not hundreds of millions of years old…….they just look that way. If you think about Adam & Eve, this makes sense. They were not put into the garden as newborns. They could not have survived. God put them there as mature adults. In short……God created Adam & Eve old. He had to, in order for them to survive. In the same way he created the world as a work in progress…….already finely tuned and interconnected. He had to, in order for it to survive. If God can create an “aged” Adam & Eve…….. he can create an “aged” universe.

3. The scientists are wrong. I hear this a lot. It usually involves some pretty strained interpretations of the fossil record. The trouble is that this explanation absolutely will not fly with our primary target audience, the secular humanist…..the unchurched. They just laugh. It does work beautifully………for preaching to the choir. But……….I don’t think it is going to save many darwinists……..and I believe that reaching them is one of our jobs. The greatest gift that we can give a friend, relative, or co-worker is God today…..and later…..paradise.

It is possible that all three things happened. I have to say that at this point I tend to favor option #1.  I will flesh this out in a future post……..stay tuned.

Let me say that I’m struggling with this. So…….right now…….I don’t have a clue how old the earth is……and I really don’t care. I don’t see why it can’t be hundreds of millions of years old………I don’t see why it can’t be thousands of years old.

So……….don’t get distracted.

The key issue is not how old the earth is…….or how old it looks. The key issue is creation. Did it occur by trillions of random, constructive, cumulative, accidents that all interact flawlessly to make the incredibly complicated ecosystem that we call the universe. Or……is it the work of an intelligent alien life form…………God?

So, don’t let the Darwinists use someone’s time line to beat you up. The age of the earth is unknown. Even more to the point…….the age of the earth is unimportant. The important issue is that there is a creator………he cares about you and he wants to spend time…….a lot of time…… with you.

There are things that we believe……usually things that we have believed for a long time…….. things that have served us well. These are part of our code of living. We use them to make important decisions. They define who we are.

But, what if one of these central ideas that we use to run our lives doesn’t jive with the Bible……. what if it doesn’t align with God?

I once heard somebody say that we spend a lot of our prayers trying to recruit God to our side……… and not so much time making sure that we are on his side. In other words we want God to conform to us more than we want to conform to him.

How often do you pray this prayer?

“God….. take over my life and do with it as you please!”

Pretty terrifying…….at least for me.

Let’s look at two hot button issues of the day……abortion rights and gun rights. I chose these two because I want to be sure that both the left and the right are uncomfortable. I want to be sure that everybody’s ox gets gored.

The left wants the right to have an abortion, that is the right to kill your unborn child. The right wants the right to own guns…… which kill thousands of innocent people each year. For perspective, there are about 600,000 abortions each year in the United States and about 13,000 gun related homicides. Guns and abortions are very popular in America. But, how does God feel about this?

And, to get to the point of this post……… why doesn’t the left ask how God feels about killing your child……why doesn’t the right ask how God feels about assault rifles?

We don’t ask because we don’t want to know. We don’t ask because we aren’t interested in conforming ourselves to God. We don’t ask because we are afraid that we are not on God’s side. We don’t ask because we are afraid of what we will find if we look under that rock. Ignorance really is bliss.

But what about the truth? You see, the truth is still out there……even if we ignore it. God is still out there……even when we ignore him.

I am a shooter, a hunter, and a gun owner. I own and shoot assault rifles……and I really enjoy it. But, if I look hard at the heart of God and ask the questions……….will there be abortions in heaven?…….will there be assault rifles in heaven?…………I’d have to answer no.

This makes me uncomfortable and it makes me sad…… because, on at least one important issue in my world, I doubt that I am on God’s side.

That’s not the worst of it. I picked these issues as really big emotional examples. There are no doubt dozens of others that I haven’t really thought about………… and that you haven’t thought about. There are dozens of other rocks that we haven’t looked under.

Maybe we both need to spend a little more time asking……”how does God feel about that?”

Thank God for grace………. I’ll be back next week with something a little lighter.

We all make mistakes. (Yes……. me too)

We all do things that are wrong.

You know it, I know it, and so do others.

So does the one who put you here.

Screwing up is unfortunately so common, that it is statistically normal. We hate to admit it. But, you can’t honestly look at what’s going on in this world and deny this fundamental truth. As an aside, we are acutely aware of the errors of others………not so much with our own mistakes.

Today’s question is “what do we do with our mistakes?” I’ll save the mistakes of others for another day. They are far less dangerous as it turns out.

Our most common choices are:

Deny that we did it.

Ignore/forget it and move on.

Redefine it so that it is no longer wrong.

Admit it, explore it, learn from it, and seek forgiveness.

Here we go:

Deny it:

Surprisingly, this is very common. Have you ever been pulled over for speeding. The officer leans in and says “Sir, do you know how fast you were going?” Now you know you were doing 82 in a 70 mph zone…… you know because when you saw the blue light you looked at your speedometer. But, what did you say? The point is that it is very easy to deny an error to others…….it is impossible to deny it to yourself.

Ignore/forget it:

I call this plan B. When denying the error to ourself fails, we just stuff it down, try to forget it and move on. The more that we do this, the better we get at it. I know people who are incredibly skilled at moving on and leaving the wreckage behind. At least they think so. Have you ever been backpacking? I used to backpack………when I was younger. You load up about 50 pounds of gear in a pack and head down the trail. You walk all day and it feels pretty normal. Just before sunset, you shuck off the pack and suddenly you feel like you are walking on air. Only then do you sense the load that you have been carrying all day. Ignoring/forgetting is like that. We drag the burden of the mistake along…… we get used to it……. we begin to think that it is normal……. we don’t notice it so much…… until we finally let it go. But, make no mistake about it……it was there all along wearing us down.

Redefine it:

This is the modern way to solve the problem. We find an intellectual tool that allows us to change the wrong we have done into a right. I’m not going to delve into concrete examples here. My purpose is not to beat others up. I have enough problems of my own. The thing is that….. in our hearts….and it may be deeply burried…….. we still know that we are wrong. We have to continually expend emotional energy……every day……turning our wrong into a right. The deeper we have buried it and the greater the wrong, the harder we have to work……. the more often we have to reinforce our justification. There is a second problem with redefining. Because we have bought into the idea that what we are doing is right, we keep repeating the wrong……… and digging the hole deeper.

Admit/explore/learn/seek forgiveness:

At first this is tough. We have to identify and accept our failure. This is very hard on our self esteem. We hate the idea that we have been wrong……or even worse “bad”. Our society has decided that maintaining our self esteem is paramount. We have “gradeless” schools and “attendance awards” so that we can deny our failures…… so that we can believe that we are succeeding in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary. But, in our hearts, we still know. The wrongness is still there. The next step is to dispassionately analyze our error and the damage that we’ve done. The final step is to ask for forgiveness. The greatest gift of Christianity is that it gives us a tool for receiving forgiveness. When you do, it’s like dropping the 50 pound pack and walking on air.

This gift cost Christ a lot. It’s value is immense…… and it costs you next to nothing……except that you have to be humble enough to recognize it and to ask for it.

I can promise you………it’s worth it.

First…….a disclaimer………I am against abortion. You probably suspected.

I regularly am accused of being a “one issue voter”.

And I am.

I cannot vote for any candidate who supports abortion………no matter how excellent they are otherwise.

WHY?

When making a difficult decision I often list the pros vs. the cons. You should try this.

Take a sheet of paper, make a “Pro” column and a “Con” column. Here is an example.

Pro

Good for the environment
Fights climate change
Pro workers
Good health care for all
Pro women’s rights
Supports LGBT
Grows the “safety net”
Welcomes refugees/immigrants
Helps the poor
Equal rights
Supports fair housing
Equal pay for equal work

Con

Kills 3000 children a day, every day

In order to support abortion, you must believe one of two things.

1. Abortion does not kill a child

or, failing that

2. Killing the child is justified.

Moreover, you have to be absolutely sure…….. because thousands of lives are at stake every day.

My challenge is this:

Spend a day studying a 16 week baby: what he is, what she does…………….what they FEEL.

Then spend a day studying what a first trimester abortion does from the perspective of the baby. Keep in mind that the baby receives no pain relief as he or she is dismembered.

Then answer the two questions. If you cannot say with absolute certainty that abortion does not kill the child……or failing that……..that the killing is justified, then you are endorsing an act that makes the Holocaust pale in comparison.

As of this year 60 million babies have been aborted in America alone (3000 a day). That is 1/3 of my children’s entire generation…….1/3 of the men that my granddaughters could have chosen for husbands have been killed. That is roughly equal to the population of the U.S. west of the Mississippi if you exclude Texas, California, and Louisiana.

Of those 60 million abortions, 30 million were women……..killed in the name of women’s rights.

Almost half of the aborted babies are black. Abortion is by far the leading cause of death in the black community, more than all other causes combined.

During the Civil War, if you asked a southerner what he was fighting for, he would have said “state’s rights”. Sounds noble. But, if you drill down a bit, the specific right that he was defending was the right to enslave a man based on his skin color, to kill him with impunity, to rape his wife, and then to sell her child. We now recognize slavery as a horrible crime. There is no difference between the logic defending slavery in 1860 and the logic defending abortion today. The arguments used to justify slavery and abortion are identical.

The only logically valid arguments in support of abortion are very simple.

Either

Abortion is right because……….we want it.

Or

Killing a child is justified in order to achieve a “greater good”.

As an aside, over 20 million of the children killed by abortion would have been of voting age for the 2016 election. They would have been disproportionately black and would have been disproportionately from liberal households. Did you ever wonder who would be president today, if they had been there to vote?