The Culture Of Death

I am often asked why our society has become so coarse. Why are so many obscene things now acceptable in the popular culture? How can musicians sing about "popping people" (killing them) and refer to women and minorities in such derogatory terms? The list goes on and on. 

As I have pointed out my entire career, liberty has become unmoored from virtue. And the further we get from our Judeo-Christian foundation, the more the hounds of hell are unleashed. 

Our country was built on the idea that our rights come from God, not government. That's what the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence says:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

But in 1973, the highest court in our land said something very different. It said preborn children have no rights we are obligated to respect. Instead of preborn children having any rights, the court declared that killing preborn children was a fundamental right. 

The Supreme Court reaffirmed that decision in 1992, declaring that liberty was "each person defining their own meaning." 

Well, people can define their own meaning in all sorts of horrible ways, and they often do. Many of those people are locked up in prison because their definition of liberty negatively affected someone else, just as abortion negatively affects (kills) a baby.

But with those two decisions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, the Supreme Court planted the seeds for a culture of death. We've destroyed millions of innocent preborn lives in the years since. We've gone from a society where abortion was only whispered about because it was shameful to today when the left says, "Shout it, and be proud of it."

Soldiers who have seen a lot of death and horror often suffer in civilian life from PTSD.  They have trouble staying grounded. Their life often goes off the rails. America has been in the middle of death and horror for 50 years caused by abortion on demand. 

We all know what happens in those "clinics." A child dies and a woman is exploited. Yet, even in the middle of the pandemic, when we shut down our economy to save lives, the left insisted that abortion centers were "essential" and allowed them to remain open.

We are sitting on top of a mound of skulls of aborted babies. Perhaps we are suffering a national PTSD from the violence in the womb that destroys the most innocent among us. Pray for wisdom and courage at the Supreme Court as it reconsiders 50 years of abortion on demand.

Just my thoughts.