Huckleberries Online pointed me to this article on the Idaho Statesman's website (for now, I'll pass up remarking on the strangeness of depending on a Spokane, WA based newspaper blog to keep me abreast of local politics).
A Canyon County anti-abortion activist and father of 16 says he's more than a month into a hunger strike that will end either with his death or the state adopting a law saying that human life begins with conception.Is this man so addled that he doesn't see the utter hypocrisy of this?
[He and his wife have] attended a number of churches--Baptist, Nazarene, Assembly of God and others--— but their study of the Bible directs their daily lives. She drives him to appointments, brings him things he can't find because of his weakened eyesight, helps him up when he falls. She supports him in the hunger strike--even if it leads to his death.How is this serving the Lord? Somebody tell me...where has God commanded that we kill ourselves as a type of extortion/blackmail? Am pretty sure the command reads:
"Whatever he has to do to serve the Lord, he has to do," she said. "I hate to give him up, but he has to serve the Lord."
You shall not murder (Exodus 20:13).And that includes murder of self. You cannot take a stand for righteousness by sinning.
May God have mercy on this man, and wake him from this folly and rebellion.
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Started reading an interesting little book rec. by O Durham called "Towards Spiritual Maturity" by Still.
He would add: May God save him from the Devil, who is the Father of Lies, not just from himself.
Thanks, girlfriday. As always, Mr. Still would've done it better than I.
I find this so absurd. It's like asking congress to repeal the law of gravity. Though, I will give the guy credit that he's not planning on blowing anything up.
One might have said the same thing about outlawing slavery, S.
I was wondering tonight if the local prolife groups are poised to camp out on this fellows lawn carrying placards reading things like " save the innocents" " don't stop a beating heart" and so on just as one would in front of an abortion clinic...and then I thought, how depressing for this clearly confused guy if, well no one has done so, if prolife activists and pastors and other's have not really bothered to put a bit of sweat into bringing the pro life message to his lawn, cause clearly, he's not got the idea yet.
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