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THE
CULTURE OF LIFE
(Part 1)
July
11, 2011
Today’s reading: Exodus 1:8-22
Abortion has been with us since time immemorial, and widespread forced
abortion has also already been state policy in the past. Pharaoh
commanded the Hebrew midwives to kill the unborn or newly born child.
“When you act as midwives for the Hebrew women and see them giving
birth, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she may live.”
(Ex 1:16).
The contemporary of the Egyptian abortion policy today is that of China.
In the case of China, the girls rather than the boys are being killed.
As the state has decreed its one-child policy, many parents choose to
abort those who are female, since they prefer to have a male child.
Such a policy, aside from the terrible holocaust of millions of the
unborn, has resulted in a demographic imbalance, with males far
outnumbering females in the nation. This presents its own problems, as
the Chinese try to cope with the imbalance. Millions of Chinese men are
now unable to find a bride. Unmarried men from 20 to 44 already
outnumber their female counterparts two to one.
What alternatives do the Chinese now have?
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(1)
Kidnapping of women, both within China and from other countries, to
be sold as brides. There is already a thriving business in this.
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(2)
Homosexuality. If a Chinese male cannot find a female, then look to
another male. There are plenty of them around. (This promotion of
homosexuality will please Obama, the European Union and the United
Nations).
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(3)
War. With tens of millions of excess men, a solution to the
imbalance is in getting them killed in battle. A bonus to the
Chinese government is the prod to its expansionist and imperialist
ambitions. (Beware SouthEast Asian nations. China has already
claimed the whole South China Sea and is building more
fortifications with heavy weaponry on atolls).
Why
did Pharaoh institute such a policy? They were afraid of the Israelites
who were growing in population. “Look how numerous and powerful the
Israelite people are growing, more so than we ourselves! Come, let us
deal shrewdly with them to stop their increase; otherwise, in time of
war they too may join our enemies to fight against us, and so leave our
country.” (Ex 1:9-10).
There are a number of realities that, just as then, are so today.
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(1)
Population is power! “Look how numerous and powerful the Israelite
people are growing.” The words “numerous” and “powerful”
go together! The western world today wants to limit the populations
of the developing world, because such large nations are a threat to
their dominance. “The Egyptians, then, dreaded the Israelites”
(Ex 1:12b).
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(2)
The populations of the western world have peaked and in more and
more cases are beginning to decline, resulting in the so-called
demographic winter. “Look how numerous and powerful .... (they)
are growing, more so than we ourselves!” By their own choice in
adopting abortion, homosexuality and a selfish lifestyle that does
not want children, the peoples of the developed world face a bleak
future. What could be bleaker than outright extinction as a people,
as a race? Now that is their choice. The problem is that they want
to drag other countries into the mire. They want to totally
transform the pro-life and pro-family traditional values of much of
the developing world. This is cultural imperialism at its worst.
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(3)
Western nations and western powers remain selfish, colonialist,
imperialist and now diabolical. It is all about self-interest.
Knowing that population is power, they want to limit the potential
power of future opponents. Opponents in what? One, military power.
“Come, let us deal shrewdly with them to stop their increase;
otherwise, in time of war they too may join our enemies to fight
against us ....” Two, economic power. “.... and so leave our
country.” The west just wants the resources of the world, and to
keep the hungry populations of the developing world in servitude,
either producing low-cost resources for their use, or as domestics
and other low-paying jobs in their countries. The poor of the world
are the slaves of the dominant rich, and the resources of the poor
countries are “stolen” to satisfy the rapacity of the rich.
“Accordingly, taskmasters were set over the Israelites to oppress
them with forced labor. Thus they had to build for Pharaoh the
supply cities of Pithom and Raamses.” (Ex 1:11).
This
is what was behind the infamous “NSSM 200.” This is the “National
Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population
Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests” issued on December
10, 1974 by the US National Security Council under Henry Kissinger. It
was adopted as official US policy in November 1975.
Its basic thesis was that population growth in the least developed
countries (LDCs) was a concern for US national security and inimical to
the national interests of the US. It gave paramount importance to
population control measures and the promotion of contraception among 13
countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India,
Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey).
It recommended that the US government influence national leaders of
these countries in the push for population reduction efforts. It
recommended increased emphasis on mass media. It recommended pushing
population education programs by the UN, USIA and USAID.
These are what we are seeing being done vigorously today.
Why are these things happening?
First, there are those in power who do not know God or who have rejected
God. The US is now prohibiting prayer or the display of the Ten
Commandments in schools and government offices. For a nation founded on
God and on Judeo-Christian traditions, that is a radical shift indeed.
Obama is just the latest (and possibly worst) in a long line of
government officials who either do not live out their faith or have
turned away from their faith. “Then a new king, who knew nothing of
Joseph, came to power in Egypt.” (Ex 1:8). The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom. If we reject God’s ways, then we certainly will
go astray.
Second, the world has lost sight of God’s plan, of the importance of
the family and of life. Much of the world just wants power, possessions,
pleasure. Much of the world has looked to secular ideals, taking on the
very wisdom of the world. And they want to impose their liberal,
so-called progressive and hedonistic agenda on the rest of us. “Come,
let us deal shrewdly with them to stop their increase.”
How do we, the people of God, respond?
We of course must defend life. We must fight for the culture of life.
Further, since we face Goliaths in our anti-life enemies, we must be
prepared to be oppressed, persecuted, to suffer for the cause. With laws
on such abominations as abortion, divorce and same-sex marriage already
in place, further laws will be passed (already passed in some countries)
to stamp out opposition, such as laws on hate speech or the abrogation
of conscience protection. If we violate these laws, we can be jailed,
our property confiscated, our business shut down.
However, in such oppression, we must know a fundamental truth. “Yet
the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread.”
(Ex 1:12a). Our Christian faith spreads and thrives on the shedding of
the blood of the martyrs. We are called to take up our crosses, in
imitation of Christ. So the more we are persecuted, the more we ought to
grow strong. The more we grow. We must not only have more children (that
we can properly care for), we must also grow in our Christian faith and
in our passion for the defense of the culture of life. “The midwives,
however, feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt had ordered
them, but let the boys live.” (Ex 1:17). Authentic faith leads us to
renew the family and to defend life.
The family is a creation of God, and life is fundamental to family. The
ultimate strength and well-being of a nation depends on the well-being
of its families, the basic units of society. If we look to faith, family
and life, then our nation will be strong, with the very strength of God.
“Therefore God dealt well with the midwives. The people, too,
increased and grew strong. And because the midwives feared God, he build
up families for them.” (Ex 1:20-21).
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