Is It 'Cool' With You That A 'Doctor' Slices Open The Face Of A Live Baby To Sell Its Brain?

This has to be what it was like in Nazi Germany at the beginning of the Holocaust.

Thing is, we're not at the beginning of anything since "The American Holocaust" of unwanted babies has been going on for decades now.

Because I'm culpable if I remain silent while this goes on in our country today even as I type this...

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times -- the Gospel guarantees that there is grace, forgiveness, healing, mercy, and restoration through Jesus Christ available to those women and men who are broken, distraught, and repentant over their sin of abortion. However, today I want to take a few moments to talk to you about those who are no longer living and who will never take a single breath or have a voice of their own. 

An acquaintance of mine commented today, "I talk to everyone I know about #PPSellsBabyParts, but it goes nowhere. People are just too wrapped up in themselves to care. I post the articles. I tell people personally. I tell them what's going on. The MSM doesn't report it so it's not public discourse. They think I'm exaggerating or something. They don't hear it anywhere else and they sure aren't going to look into it for themselves. It's easier and more comfortable to remain ignorant. Confronting evil requires courage and self sacrifice, which is in short supply today." Sad, but so true I'm afraid. The general consensus I've encountered (even from Christians!) is one of "Oh, another abortion story, huh? Oh well, so what? What can you do? This is nothing new." 

Really? Is that true? See, that acquaintance of mine made these comments in response to the latest Planned Parenthood video that was just released. I'm not ashamed to admit that I just don't have the heart or the stomach to watch it. As Derek Rishmawy said, "Somebody tell me after that 7th video that Planned Parenthood isn't worth at least investigating. Someone nitpick about 'edited' videos." 

Exactly. If you've been an abortion advocate and pro-choice and still are to this day, then I would love to know why you haven't changed your position throughout these past several weeks, and particularly after this latest video in which a baby's face is literally ripped off so that the "doctor" can harvest its brain for profit. As Lisa Cooper put it, "If I kill a pregnant woman, it would be Double Homicide, but taking an intact infant with a beating heart and cutting his face open is okay?" 

Apparently, there's gruesome, heartbreaking images of the baby lying there afterward with its arms and legs still moving around, and I'm told by PP supporters that I'm supposed to be "ok" with this since "babies can't feel pain at that age" and "those harvested organs will help someone else live one day" huh? Gimme a break! Folks, there are still 6 videos left to be released, which means we probably haven't even seen the worst of it yet! Sadly, only a dozen states are now investigating whether to defund Planned Parenthood as a result of the undercover videos. Only twelve. 

Is it "cool" with you that a "doctor" rips open a live baby's face so he can preserve the brain and sell it? Is this the kind of "choice" and "right" we must preserve and protect for women as a free and civilized nation? Matt Walsh is right: "If we can't protect our children, we are a worthless, cowardly country and I really don't care what happens with immigration or the economy." Precisely.

That was my rant from my soapbox on Facebook a few minutes ago.

Thankfully, Pastor Scott Murray issued a comforting response to all of this.

Overreach 

Satan rebelled against his Creator in the first and worst overreach in history. According to Martin Luther, Satan attacked God’s plan to save the world through the weakness of the incarnation, suffering and death of His Son. After all, Lucifer reasoned, who better than he, who was the light bearer, to bring the light into the world? God didn’t see it that way. To us, it seems the height of madness to rebel against the Almighty God, to attack the unassailable and to hurl yourself against a mighty fortress. Yet, this has been the M.O. of Satan and his minions since the fall of our first parents in paradise. 

Blinded by their rage and spite, the enemies of God continue to launch attacks on His ways and kingdom. The Planned Parenthood videos, made public over the last few weeks, expose an organization so filled with hatred for life that it has overreached, perhaps fatally. To haggle like a street vendor over the sale of the organs of infants whose heads have been crushed to kill them displays a callous disregard for God’s law. To exclaim over those pitiable remains, “Oh, another little boy!” is to indict yourself as a child killer; they know it’s more than random cells. There is a carelessness that reminds of the minutes of the Wannsee Conference at which the Nazis planned the “Final Solution” over an elegant lunch. An excellent white wine lubricates plans for mass murder like nothing else. The American people may have heard enough, more than enough. 

If these enemies of life had not been so callously careless in their haggling over body parts and graphic descriptions of what they are doing when they dismember innocent children, they might still be running their profitable charnel houses with tax payer funding and still no one would have noticed. I, for one, believe that they may be the architects of their own downfall in yet another frightening overreach of wickedness. Despite our revulsion at these horrifying revelations, there is much to be confident about. God is still our mighty fortress. Christ is the Light of the world. And Satan is still overreaching. But don’t worry. God always wins. 

The Rev. Dr. Scott R. Murray is pastor of Memorial Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas, and fourth vice president of the LCMS.

In a Lutheran layman's terms, "the Planned Parenthood videos, made public over the last few weeks, expose an organization so filled with hatred for life that it has overreached, perhaps fatally."



NOTE: Please understand that I'm not a called and ordained minister of God's Word and Sacraments. I'm a layman or just a regular Christian, Candy-Making, Husband, Father, Friend who lives in the "City of Good Neighbors" here on the East Coast. To be more specific, and relevant to the point I want to make with this disclaimer/note, please understand that I'm also a newly converted Confessional Lutheran who recently escaped American Evangelicalism almost 2 years ago now. That being said, please contact me ASAP if you believe that any of my "old beliefs" seem to have crept their way into any of the material you see published here, and especially if any of the content is inconsistent with our Confessions and Lutheran doctrine (in other words, if it's not consistent with God's Word, which our Confessions merely summarize and repeatedly point us back to over and over again) so that I can correct those errors immediately and not lead any of His little ones astray (James 3:1). Also, please be aware that you might also discover that some of the earlier pieces I wrote for this blog back in 2013 definitely fall into that "Old Evangelical Adam" category since I was a "Lutheran-In-Name-Only" at the time and was completely oblivious to the fact that a Christian "Book of Concord" even existed (Small/Large Catechism? What's that!?!). This knowledge of the Lutheran basics was completely foreign to me even though I was baptized, confirmed, and married in an LCMS church! So, there are some entries that are a little "out there" so-to-speak since the subject matter was also heavy influenced by those old beliefs of mine. I know that now and I'm still learning. Anyway, I decided to leave those published posts up on this website and in cyberspace only because they are not blasphemous/heretical, because we now have this disclaimer, and only to demonstrate the continuing work of Christ and the Holy Spirit in my life (Hebrews 12:2; Philippians 1:6). Most importantly, please know that any time I engage in commenting on and/or interpreting a specific portion of the holy Scriptures, it will always closely follow the verse-by-verse notes from my Lutheran Study Bible and/or include references to the Book of Concord unless otherwise noted. Typically, I defer to what other Lutheran Pastors both past and present have already preached and taught about such passages since they are the called and ordained shepherds of our souls here on earth. Finally, I'm going to apologize ahead of time for the length of most entries (this disclaimer/note is a perfect example of what I mean! haha!). I'm well aware that blogs should be short, sweet, and to the point, but I've never been one to follow the rules when it comes to writing. Besides, this website is more like a "Christian Dude's Diary" in the sense that everything I write about and share publicly isn't always what's "popular" or "#trending" at the time, but is instead all the things that I'm experiencing and/or studying myself at the moment. For better or for worse, these posts tend to be much longer than most blog entries you'll find elsewhere only because I try to pack as much info as possible into a single piece so that I can refer to it again and again over time if I need to (and so that it can be a valuable resource for others -- if possible, a "One-Stop-Shop" of sorts). Thank you for stopping by and thank you in advance for your time, help, and understanding. Feel free to comment/email me at any time. Grace and peace to you and yours!

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