Define Everything
So, you think you’re ProLife.
What does that really mean to you? In reality, to be prolife encompasses more than being anti-abortion. It is a lifestyle of honor and kindness to all people, great and small, young and old, rich and poor and even those, whom the world considers undesirable. It means being considerate of family and friends. It means respecting coworkers and clerks in the marketplace. It means driving carefully and making decisions with an awareness of how those decisions will affect others, both here and now and in the future.
In our culture today, nothing should be taken for granted. None of us can be sure that others are on the same page, so to speak.
We must define everything.
Liberal used to mean allowing others to exercise their God given liberty. Now, it generally means an elitist attitude that stifles the right to liberty by asserting illogical controls. Gun control, also known as controling the right of self defense, food consumption control, restrictions on travel and building, property ownership and business, but gratuitous violence and unfettered sex of any and all kinds with unrestricted access to birth control, including unlimited abortion for any reason at any time before birth or after if that is the intention, only at a completely independent, unregulated, specialized killing center.
Christian at one time meant Believers in Messiah. Then, it meant Catholic with all the pageantry and ceremony. That changed to mean crusaders, pillaging and granting indulgences and disallowing the common man access to the scriptures, as in the Dark Ages. After a long time there was a period of enlightenment and a protestant reformation, when to be a Christian meant one who believes in the salvation of the soul by the sacrifice of the one and only Son of God called Jesus. And after a time a great many different denominations sprang up, divergent, but still holding that the Holy Bible is the Word of God. And now, Christian can mean a great many beliefs, usually based on the Bible.
Republican, at one time was rather specific. If one was called Republican, there was a platform one would have stood on firmly. There are a number of planks or statements to which one is to espouse. The only problem is that many people do, what I call, the platform dance. Picture a person, skipping back and forth on a deck, stepping on only the planks that they like and never touching others. A candidate may choose a party to run with, but completely abandon the principles that are key to that party.
Sadly, our economy is in such disrepair that many people are busy working to put food on the table and keep a roof overhead that they can hardly look up to examine the positions of those running for office.
I know that our house is one which hopes to get enough information to vote with a clean conscience. Taking the time to interview candidates and plug in to the think tanks can be overwhelming when you are in survival mode.
Of course, if more people were observant and knowledgeable, especially about history, we wouldn’t even be in this position as a country. History bares out, time and time again that socialism doesn’t work. We also know that cultures that permit the wholesale slaughter of humans, especially infant sacrifice, do not last. A few people exercising control over many is inconsistent with freedom. This is just part of natural law. Our Creator made us for life, because He wants to love us.
He loves you. Without a doubt, He is sovereign. He makes the rules and determines the consequences.
When you are talking to people or listening to broadcasts, do you question the definition of the terms used? Do you wonder if they are speaking a different language? Are you sure others understand the context in the same way you do? How might we be sure?