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There was a time when abortion was seen as immoral and scandalous. In 1973, however, the Supreme Court arbitrarily ruled that abortion was legal and since then, over 65 million babies have been legally aborted in the U.S. In 2022, the decision was overturned, yet there is still an overwhelming view in this country that abortion should be legal. How did Americans turn from valuing life to being okay with throwing it away?
The root of the answer lies in how people see themselves as human beings.
There are two views that Americans have historically viewed themselves in the context of how to live. One is the Judeo-Christian worldview that humans have a fallen intellect, and the other is a humanistic worldview, which emphasizes the human intellect as entirely sufficient to define morality. The contrast between the two was reflected during the Renaissance and Reformation periods. The Renaissance centered on the intellect of man, advocating a life led by the human being, whereas the Reformation centered on the intellect of God, advocating a life led by a divine law. As these worldviews are completely different, they are also incompatible with each other, and this incompatibility has shown itself in government and law.
The United States has experienced a shift from one worldview to another and it has not been in the right direction.
In the 1933 Unites States v. Macintosh case, the Supreme Court noted the importance of “assuming the existence of a belief in a supreme allegiance to the will of God,” regarding a conscientious objector’s religious liberty. In 1961, however, the Supreme Court acknowledged “secular humanism” as a religion, and in the 1970 Welsh v. United States case, the Supreme Court noted that a conscientious objector need only “essentially political, sociological, or philosophical views, or a merely personal moral code.” The shift from the 1933 to the 1970 case has been one that diminishes the acknowledgment of a superior God in daily life, and it has been moving in that same direction, one that favors the humanist religion over the Christian, ever since.
Another case of the shift is seen in America’s freedom of religion concept. George Washington said regarding the First Amendment, “The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states, of worshipping Almighty God agreeable to their consciences, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.” Today, however, the First Amendment is used to silence the church, leading to the removal of religion as having any influence on government and law. Marx and Engels wrote in Manifesto of the Communist Party, “Communism is the stage of historical development which makes all existing religions superfluous and brings about their disappearance.” The U.S. has adopted this principle in the way modern-day legal academia interprets the First Amendment, and has trended toward this disappearance of religion entirely in government.
The First Amendment was instituted to restrain the government, but it has become a tool that religion, particularly Christianity, must now overcome.
There is a great danger to removing Christianity from government. This, however, is the goal of humanists and it is sufficient to cause concern. They infiltrated American law with abortion when the Supreme Court arbitrarily imposed onto Americans its legality in 1973, denying moral, medical, and scientific grounds, and it has done more than simply expel Christianity from government and law – it has satanically twisted the essence, message, and hope of Christianity.
The essence of Christianity is that there is one God (1 Corinthians 8:6), but abortion elevates the mother to the level of God, determining if a child lives or dies. The message of Christianity is that Jesus died so that others may live (1 Thessalonians 5:9-10), but abortion is such that another dies so that the mother may conveniently live. The hope of Christianity is that through the womb humanity has gained a wonderful salvation (Luke 2:11), but abortion is attacking this vessel through which this salvation has been hoped for.
Abortion also attacks the reality of Christianity, for the reality is that God came beneath the law and subjected himself to the law of Caesar (Galatians 4:4-6). The reality of abortion is just the opposite, for it is an elite minority – the intellectuals, legal academia, and politicians – capriciously deciding, with nothing but human emotion to drive them, what ought to be the law, and in the case of abortion, its ruling is made king above God himself.
Jesus said, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Mark 12:17). The way abortion has been accepted into government, law, and society as not only normal but also dangerously warranted as a human right, Americans have been rendering to Caesar far more than he deserves, and leaving God with far less than he had ever hoped for (Jeremiah 1:5).
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