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*ABORTION

JESSE JACKSON, 1977: "What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the abortion of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person, and what kind of a society, will we have in 20 years hence if life can be taken so casually

AMERICAN FAMILY JOURNAL: "Quietly, slowly, painfully, inexorably, the American people are answering that question [what decent society can live with abortion?]: We cannot live with abortion. We know there is a better way.

That is why the Freedom of Choice Act, that grand design to enshrine abortion on demand once and for all, failed.

That is why 83% of the counties of America have no abortion clinic, and only 13% of public hospitals will perform abortions.

That is why fewer and fewer medical schools are teaching abortion -- most doctors themselves want nothing to do with it.

That is why, when President Clinton lifted the ban on abortion at US military bases overseas, every single American military doctor in Europe and Asia refused to participate in abortion. They simply refused to do it." (American Family Journal, January, 1995, p.15)

WASHINGTON, DC--No abortions have been performed in any military hospitals in the 18 months since President Clinton ordered military physicians to perform abortions. Every military doctor has used the conscience clause to refuse abortions. (LIC 11/94) AOL

SPRINGFIELD, IL--A study by the Eliot Institute for Social Sciences Research found that 28% of women who regretted having an abortion had attempted suicide. About 65% acknowledged denying negative feelings for about 5 years, 20% reported nervous breakdowns. The subjects had abortions an average 10.6 years before the survey. (NIR 11/28/94) AOL

WASHINGTON, DC--Since the Supreme Court 1973 Roe v. Wade decision over 31 million abortions have been performed -- as many as the combined populations of the 15 states in red shown above. Currently 4,300 abortions are performed each day, about one every 20 seconds. (Nat’l Right to Life)

LEGAL SOPHISTRY: In 1994 Kawana Michele Ashley, a Florida woman, shot herself in the womb as an abortion method. It worked. The infant survived 15 days after an emergency Caesarian section. Ashley was unable to pay for an abortion, which was legal, but because the infant died, she was charged 9-7-94 with manslaughter and 3rd-degree murder.

LEGAL SOPHISTRY: In 1985, a Plantation, Florida doctor performed a legal abortion. The baby insisted on living, whereupon the doctor issued a "Code Blue," and obligated the hospital to do everything possible to save it. The baby lived for nine hours before dying on a respirator. (Which lawsuit should the mother choose: a botched abortion, or failure to keep the infant alive? How does a candidate for death become transformed into a person worthy of a hospital's most sophisticated life-saving resources?)

NON-LIFE THAT GREW UP??? "Modern medical technology today enables many babies born prematurely to survive and grow into healthy human beings. Thus, when abortion is practiced in the sixth, seventh, eighth or ninth month of pregnancy, the prospect that a to-be-aborted baby will survive the procedure is one which strikes terror into the hearts of abortionists...In one instance, a child survived a saline abortion performed at Johns Hopkins University. The doctor who delivered the infant was successfully sued by the mother for support costs." (John Martin, managing editor, The Daily Chronicle, Centralia-Chehalis, WA, reprinted by Human Life, 1316 E. Pike, Seattle WA 98122)

TRIMESTER STATISTICS: "...45 of 607 mid-trimester abortions done at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Hartford, Conn., between April, 1974, and October, 1976, resulted in live births, including one set of twins. None survived more than 13 hours, despite attempts to save them." (John Martin, managing editor, The Daily Chronicle, Centralia-Chehalis, WA, reprinted by Human Life, 1316 E. Pike, Seattle WA 98122)

GASPING NON-LIFE?? "One nurse testified that the child gasped for breath for at least 15 minutes following the abortion and no attempts were made to help it in any way. She said she observed a pulse in the upper chest, left neck area. Another nurse said she had seen the baby move and that "one of the foreign residents, who was observing, baptized the child." According to testimony, someone in the room ordered a lethal dose of morphine, but no one administered it." (John Martin, managing editor, The Daily Chronicle, Centralia-Chehalis, WA, citing the Pittsburth Press of Nov. 1, 1974; reprinted by Human Life, 1316 E. Pike, Seattle WA 98122)

THE REAL LEGAL REASON: "By mid-May, after five months of work, Blackmun was still laboring over his draft abortion opinion. Finally, he let one of his clerks look over a draft. As usual, he made it clear that he did not want any editing. The clerk was astonished. It was crudely written and poorly organized. It did not settle on any analytical framework, nor did it explain on what basis Blackmun had arrived at the apparent conclusion that women had a right to privacy, and thus a right to abortion." ("The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court," Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong, 1979, Simon & Schuster)

HIPPOCRATIC OATH (ANCIENT): "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; furthermore, I will not give to a woman an instrument to produce abortion."

HIPPOCRATIC OATH 1948: "I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of conception." (Hippocratic Oath, revised September, 1948, Declaration of Geneva) (These words were simply deleted from the oath in the 1960's by the Univ. of Pittsburgh and University of Toronto School of Medicine.)

PRE-ROE V. WADE MEDIA BIAS: "The birth of a human life really occurs at the moment the mother's egg cell is fertilized by one of the father's sperm cells." (Drama of Life Before Birth, Life Magazine, April 1965; cited in "The Facts of Life," Life Messengers, Box 1967, Seattle, WA 98111)

LIFE AT CONCEPTION: "It is a scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception, and is continuous, whether inside or outside the uterus, until death." (Journal, CA State Medical Assn., Sept. 1970; cited in "The Facts of Life," Life Messengers, Box 1967, Seattle, WA 98111)

YOU’RE NEXT: "If a mother can kill her own child, what is left before I kill you and you kill me?" (Catholic nun Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner)

SUB-HUMANS: "When Hitler determined to exterminate the Jews, some German humanists objected on the basis of the sanctity of life and of natural justice, Hitler simply defined the Jews as less than fully human, and his critics were anesthetized. If the Jews were not human, then they did not have human rights. What a simple solution to an otherwise perplexing problem! The argument for rights...becomes capricious and merely a matter of definition of terms by whoever has the power to make his definition stick...When abortion opponents object that in doing so they destroy other persons - unborn children - and deprive them of all their rights, the prochoice party simply resorts to having the competent power - the Supreme Court - declare that unborn children are not persons and hence have no rights to interfere with a woman's freedom of choice." (JW Whitehead, The Second American Revolution, pp. 118, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co)

CHINESE EUGENICS: "China is readying a new law that would use abortions and sterilization to prevent people suffering from certain illnesses from having children. The draft law on eugenics before China's national legislature is designed "to avoid new births of inferior quality and heighten the standards of the whole population," the Xinhau News Agency reported recently." (Omaha World Herald, 12/22/94; cited in the American Family Assoc. Journal, April, 1994, p.13)

AMERICAN EUGENICS: "Is adolescent pregnancy a disease? We have laws regarding other epidemics. We have mandatory immunizations, but we have no law prohibiting motherhood before the age of 14 in our supposedly civilized society. We ought to mandate against continuing pregnancy in the very young, say, those less than 14 years." (Minnesota abortionist Jane Hodgeson, National Abortion Federation Conference at Washington D.C on May 28, 1980)

GENDER SELECTIONS: "One of the complications of abortion is the basis on which abortions will be performed. Pro-choice positions generally argue that abortion simply eliminates the unwanted child and has no other spin-offs. A 1988 study of 8,000 abortions done in India, however, show that 7,997 of the abortions were female fetuses. It is virtually impossible to prevent all kinds of vested interests to get into this kind of question, and the complications that such interests bring is obvious. We abhor the racial and ethnic cleansing taking place in Bosnia, but the same motivations and thinking obviously permeate the abortion issue."

--Smithsonian, July, 1993, pg. 114. (This quote was challenged by a person on electronic b-bd. as a misreference; they looked it up and the article had nothing to do with abortion).

 

JOHN W. WHITEHEAD: "The research of Dr. Peter A.J.Adam, an associate professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University, shows how far a Supreme Court decision can be taken. Six months after Roe v. Wade Dr. Adam reported to the American Pediatric Research Society on research he and his associates had conducted on twelve babies who had been born alive by hysterectomy abortion up to twenty weeks. These men took the tiny babies and cut off their heads - decapitated the babies and cannulated the internal carotid arteries (that is, a tube was placed in the main artery feeding the brain). They kept the

diminutive heads alive, much as the Russians kept the dogs' heads alive in the 1950s. Take note of Dr. Adam's retort to criticism: "Once society's declared the fetus dead, and abrogated its rights, I don't see any ethical problem. . .Whose right are we going to protect, once we've decided the fetus won't live?"" (Dr. Peter A.J.Adam, "Post-Abortion Fetal Study Stirs Storm," p.21, as quoted in The Second American Revolution, pp. 67, JW Whitehead, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co)

EXODUS: If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. --Exodus 21:22-24

QUICKENING: In 1973 the Supreme Court legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade. Until the 1820's, no law existed against abortion. At this time, man only understood life at the "quickening." Science began to understand that babies developed from a sperm and egg through the help of the microscope. Ironically, it was the doctors and scientists who first moved against abortion, not the churches. Although hard numbers are missing, some research finds that abortions in the late 1800's, early 1900's, are perhaps worse than today's numbers, proportionately. It is clear the attitude then was about the same as now. Between 1849-1858, 32 accused abortionists were tried in Mass. Not one was convicted by their juries. And one doctor commented of women in 1896, "Many otherwise good and exemplary women, who would rather part with their right hands or let their tongues cleave to the roof of the mouth than to commit a crime, seem to believe that prior to quickening it is no more harm to cause the evacuation of the contents of their wombs than it is that of their bladders or their bowels." -(Facts from "Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History," Richard Shenkman, 1988, Wm. Morrow & Co., NY)

4,400 SLAUGHTERED EVERY DAY: "Every day in the U.S. 4,400 babies are killed by abortion. 1,600,000 babies are killed every year. 31,000,000 have been slaughtered since abortion-on-demand was legalized by the Supreme Court in 1973. 30% of all babies conceived in this country are killed before they ever see the light of day." (National Right to Life Committee, as quoted by American Family Association Journal, March, 1994, pg.4)

AT CONCEPTION: ". . .It is scientifically correct to say that human life begins at conception." (Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth, Harvard Medical School; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

AT CONCEPTION: "At the moment the sperm cell of the human male meets the ovum of the female and the union results in a fertilized ovum (zygote) a new [human] life has begun." (Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

AT CONCEPTION: "Biologically, at no stage can we subscribe to the view that the fetus is a mere appendage of the mother: Genetically, mother and baby are separate individuals from conception." (Dr. A.W. Liley, professor of Fetal Physiology, National Women's Hospital, Auckland New Zealand; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

AT CONCEPTION: "The standard medical texts have long taught that human life begins at conception." (Dr. Alfred Bongiovanni, U. Of Pennsylvania Medical School; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

AT CONCEPTION: "A doctor must always bear in mind the importance of preserving human life from the time of conception until death." (Internation Code of Ethics; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

AT CONCEPTION: ". . .when life begins - is no longer a question for theological or philosophical dispute. . .it is an established fact. . .that all life, including human life, begins at the moment of conception." (Dr. Hymie Gordon, professor of Medical Genetics, Mayo Clinic; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

THE LAW: "Once human life has commenced, the constitutional protection found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments imposes upon the state the duty of safeguarding it." (Steinburg v. Rhodes, 321 F. Supp. 741 (N.D. Ohio, 1970); quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

THE LAW: ". . .as a general rule of construction in the law, a legal personality is imputed to an unborn child for all purposes which would be beneficial to the infant after its birth." (American Jurisprudence; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

JUSTICE BYRON WHITE DISSENTED: "I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment [Roe v. Wade]. The Court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for pregnant mothers and, with scarcely any reason or authority for its action, invests that right with sufficient substance to override most existing state abortion statutes. . .As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but in my view its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of judicial review. . ." (Supreme Court Justice Byron White, dissenting opinion, Roe v. Wade; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

POST-ABORTION MATERNAL AFFECTS: "Majority [of women in study] reported chronic emotional problems in the abortion aftermath, including guilt, depression, alcohol and drug abuse, difficulty with relationships, and anxiety in subsequent pregnancies. 26% reported making some suicidal gesture since their abortion. (T.Wall, "Psychological After-Effects of Abortion," Wayne State University, 1986; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

POST-ABORTION MATERNAL AFFECTS: "Induced abortion is estimated to be responsible for 150,000 - 250,000 cases of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) in the US annually. PID is a major direct cause of permanent sterility, chronic abdominal pain and increased risk of extra-uterine pregnancy. (V.Rue, "Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and the Role of Induced Abortion," Association for Interdisciplinary Research Newsletter, 1988; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

JOHN W. WHITEHEAD: "Although the Supremem Court's fundamental tactic in Roe v. Wade was based on the right to privacy, the Court did protect itself against natural law arguments based on the right to life by also deciding that an unborn child is not a person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. As a nonperson, the unborn child can claim no rights to vie with the woman's right to privacy. Indeed, as a nonperson the fetus is a nonentity, with which the law may not concern itself. This conclusion is strange, indeed, because for at least a century, industrial corporations have been considered persons under the Fourteenth Amendment for purposes of lawsuits. They can be protected, although they are not living persons. [Yale law] Professor [John Hart] Ely states: "The argument that fetuses lack constitutional rights is simply irrelevant. . .Dogs are not "persons in the whole sense" nor have they constitutional rights, but that does not mean the state cannot prohibit killing them: It does not even mean the state cannot prohibit killing them in the exercise of the First Amendment right of political protest. Come to think of it, draft cards aren't person either." In other words, it is against the law to burn a draft card but not to kill an unborn child." (The Second American Revolution, pp. 124, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co; JH Ely quoted from "The Wages of Crying Wolf: A Comment on Roe v. Wade," Yale Law Journal 82:943, 947)

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BLACKMUN: "When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in the position to speculate as to the answer." (Roe v. Wade, 410 US at 159, as quoted in The Second American Revolution, pp. 125, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co)

NOBEL LAUREATE JAMES WATSON, 1973: "If a child is not declared alive until three days after birth, then all parents could be allowed the choice only a few are given under the present system. The doctor could allow the child to die if the parents so choose and save a lot of misery and suffering. I believe this view is the only rational, compassionate attitude to have." (Prism Magazine, American Medical Association, 1973; as quoted in The Second American Revolution, pp. 136, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co))

NOBEL LAUREATE FRANCIS CRICK, 1978: "...no newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowment and that if it fails these tests it forfeits the right to live." (Pacific News Service, Jan., 1978; as quoted in The Second American Revolution, pp. 136, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co)

JOHN W. WHITEHEAD: "The shameful state of the legal and medical professions is exhibited in the case of Dr. William B.l Waddill, Jr. An obstetrician in California, Waddill was tried for allegedly strangling to death a baby born alive following a saline abortion. At a preliminary hearing in April 1977, Dr. Ronald Cornelsen testified that Dr. Waddill throttled the infant's neck and complained about what would happen if the baby survived. "Waddill said that there would be lawsuits, that the baby would be brain damaged, and talked about stopping respiration by drowning or injecting potassium chloride," Cornelsen testified. At the trial in January 1978, Mrs. Joanne Griffith, a nurse at the hospital, testified that another nurse said Dr. Waddill ordered everyone to leave the bay alone and not do anything for the child. Dr. Cornelsen testified that when he first examined the baby, the heart was beating sixty to seventy times a minute with a regular rhythem. There was some discoloration on the babny's neck (allegedly from the first attempt at strangling). He further testified that while he was examining the baby, Dr. Waddill "stuck his hand back in [the isolette] and pressed the baby's neck again." The trial began to falter when the issue departed from whether or not Waddill had indeed strangled a living being and began to focus on the definition of death...Eventually the trial ended in a hung jury. A later retrial ended in another hung jury. A short while afterwards, the court involved dismissed the charges against Waddill." (Citing Schaeffer and Koop, "Human Race," p. 212; The Second American Revolution, pp. 137-38, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co)

SOPHISTRY: NON-LIFE "ALIVE" / "SURVIVES"???? "For the second time in two days, [Madison, WI] University Hospital and Clinics officials have reported that an aborted fetus was delivered alive...the fetus, determined by doctors to be 22 weeks old...had been delivered...and then resuscitated, placed in the hospital's pediatric unit and transferred...to Madison General. Tim Harper, spokesman at Madison General, said the baby died today at 1:30 a.m. of respiratory failure and other problems. University Hospital officials said an aborted fetus delivered Tuesday had been revived and survived nearly a day before dying Wednesday...Hospital officials would not reveal...what type of abortion was performed." (Tacoma [WA] News Tribune, May 6, 1982, p. B6)

QUESTION: Should these parents have an abortion? The father has syphilis. The mother has TB. They already have had four children; one blind, one died, one deaf, one with TB. If you answered yes, you just aborted Beethoven.

FOLLOWING LOGIC: "In Mexico and Scandinavia an aborted fetus is an aborted fetus. It can be treated like a removed organ. We might as well make some logical use of it. (Dr. Kirt Hirschhorn, Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC; quoted in the National Observer, Mar. 21, 1973, p.4; cited in "The Facts of Life," Life Messengers, Box 1967, Seattle, WA 98111

LOGICAL: If human life can be taken before birth, there is no logical reason why it cannot be taken after birth. -----Francis Schaeffer

LOGICAL: Since the Bible teaches that life in the womb is human life, one cannot accept abortion without denying the authority and truth of Scripture in practice. -----Francis Schaeffer

CONFESSION OF A LIAR: DR. BERNARD NATHANSON, former abortionist and cofounder National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL): "We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. ...We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85% of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5%. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted as though they had been written into law." (John, Powell, The Silent Holocaust, pg. 75; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

CONFESSION OF A LIAR: DR. BERNARD NATHANSON, former abortionist and cofounder National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL): "In NARAL we generally emphasized the drama of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter, it was always '5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year.' [From back-alley abortions--Ed.] I confess that I knew the figures were totally false and I suppose others did, too, if they stopped to think of it. But in the 'morality' of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics?" (Aborting America, p. 193; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

THE TRUTH OF ILLEGAL ABORTION DEATHS: "According to the US Bureau of Vital Statistics, the actual number of women dying from illegal abortions in 1972 (the year before Roe) was thirty-nine." (data from Center for Disease Control, table 35, MMWR, 8-8-97, cited by Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 165-166).

FETAL PAIN: "When abortionists challenged a reference to fetal pain by President Reagan in 1984, twenty-six experts - including two past presidents of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists - wrote a letter to the White House setting forth the scientific facts: 'Mr. President,' they said, ' in drawing attention to the capability of the human fetus to feel pain, you stand on firmly established ground.' Another authority, Dr. William Hogan, also defended the claim, citing numerous recognized fetology textbooks - some twenty-five years old - which detail the sensitive areas of the fetal body beginning at about 8 weeks gestation." ("Fetal Pain," The NY Times, Feb 26, 1984; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

1991 GALLUP POLL: 77% of Americans believe abortion takes a human life.

17% of Americans are "strongly pro-choice."

26% of Americans are "strongly pro-life."

1 out of 4 Americans "seldom disapprove of abortion."

1 out of 4 Americans "consistently disapprove of abortion.""

2 out of 4 Americans "often disapprove of abortion."

73% support banning all abortions in the second and third trimester.

("Abortion and Moral Beliefs: A Survey of American Opinion," The Gallup Organization, Feb. 28, 1991; cited by Randy, Alcorn, Pro-Life Answers to ProChoice Arguments, pg. 125; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

TRIMESTER ABORTIONS: "The American Medical Association reports that 4000 abortions are legally performed each year in the seventh, eighth and ninth month." (American Medical News, 7-5-93; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

CONFESSION: ABORTION ADVOCATE MAGDA DENES: "I do think abortion is murder - of a very special and necessary sort. And no physician ever involved with the procedure ever kids himself about that." (In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital, Penguin Books: NY, NY,

1977, p.227; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

MEDIA IGNORES VIOLENCE AGAINST PRO-LIFERS: "Recently, a man with his wife at an abortion clinic in Louisiana turned his gun on a pro-life demonstrator. These facts, however, may not have reached you. They did not reach many people at all. Most newspapers and television news shows chose not to report the facts. Imagine how the media would respond if the roles were reversed and the demonstrator had fired the shot? ...If the media are going to cover violence surrounding abortion clinics and crisis pregnancy center, shouldn't it be covered objectively?" --Human Life News, pg. 10, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

LOGICAL!!!

Q: "Are you going to adopt the children I'm forced to give birth to after you make abortion illegal!?"

A: "Unless you agree to adopt MY children, I will kill all of them at midnight. By YOUR logic, I am justified in killing them."

DR MENGELES WOULD BE PROUD: "In three studies at the University of Manitoba beginning in 1973, Dr Francisco Reyes cut open the stomachs and skulls of 249 live aborted babies. The first study involved the delivery of live, normal babies whose abdomens were cut open and their sex and adrenal glands examined. The second study involved seventy-nine babies aborted alive and later killed by a heart puncture. The third study involved 116 babies also aborted alive. Their skulls were opened and their pituitary glands removed. They also were later killed by heart puncture." (Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 182-183)

DR MENGELES WOULD BE PROUD: According to a June 1972 Reuters News Agency report, testicles were successfully transplanted from a six-month-old aborted baby into a twenty-eight-year-old Lebanese man. The donor baby was then killed.

In 1974 Dr Bela A Resch cut the hearts out of aborted babies and observed them beating outside their bodies for hours.

In 1980 Dr. Marti Kekomaki cut open the stomachs and severed the heads of several live aborted babies. He later remarked, "An aborted baby is just garbage and that's where it ends up. Why not make use of it for society?" (Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 182-183)

MOTHER TERESA: By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Andy country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want." (cited in Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 177)

THE FETUS ISN'T A PERSON: Unborn eagles receive legal protection and they're not considered persons. Corporations are artificial persons and are protected by the 14th Amendment. Why shouldn't unborn humans get the same protection? The distinction as a non-person is irrelevant.

ABORTION DEBATE: "A question directed at the pro-life side came from an angry woman in the audience that went this way: 'Are you going to adopt the children I'm forced to give birth to after you make abortion illegal!?' The scholar arguing the pro-life position approached the microphone and calmly said, 'I have three children asleep at home right now. After this debate, I will go home, and at midnight tonight I will kill all three of those children UNLESS you agree to adopt them. If you don't agree to adopt them, am I justified in killing them?' That was the end of the conversation." (Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 170)

ANGRY AT GOD: Invariably people are outraged when God allows some to die, some to live in a catastrophe. "What kind of a God would arbitrarily choose some to live and some to die!!?" But when we play God and determine whether a child within a mother's womb should live or die, we argue for that as a moral right to choose. What a lie and contradiction: when humans play God, it is moral, when God plays God, it is immoral.

RIGHT TO CHOOSE & PRIVACY – CONSISTENT? If you are for a woman's right to choose, why aren't you for a woman's right to choose a school for her child? If it is a matter of a woman’s right to privacy, why are most pro-choice advocates strongly for the federal income tax, which strips away every vestige of privacy? --Paul Mitchell

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Mona Charen

Body parts for sale

"KELLY" (a pseudonym) was a medical technician working for a firm that trafficked in baby body parts. This is not a bad joke. Nor is it the hysterical propaganda of an interest group. It was reported in The American Enterprise magazine -- the intelligent, thought-provoking and utterly trustworthy publication of the American Enterprise Institute.

The firm Kelly worked for collected fetuses from clinics that performed late-term abortions. She would dissect the aborted fetuses in order to obtain "high-quality" parts for sale. They were interested in blood, eyes, livers, brains and thymuses, among other things.

"What we did was to have a contract with an abortion clinic that would allow us to go there on certain days. We would get a generated list each day to tell us what tissue researchers, pharmaceutical companies and universities were looking for. Then we would examine the patient charts. We only wanted the most perfect specimens." That didn't turn out to be difficult. Of the hundreds of late-term fetuses Kelly saw on a weekly basis, only about 2 percent had abnormalities. About 30 to 40 babies per week were around 30 weeks old -- well past the point of viability.

Is this legal? Federal law makes it illegal to buy and sell human body parts. But there are loopholes in the law. Here's how one body parts company -- Opening Lines Inc. -- disguised the trade in a brochure for abortionists: "Turn your patient's decision into something wonderful."

For its buyers, Opening Lines offers "the highest quality, most affordable, freshest tissue prepared to your specifications and delivered in the quantities you need, when you need it." Eyes and ears go for $75, and brains for $999. An "intact trunk" fetches $500, a whole liver $150. To evade the law's prohibition, body-parts dealers like Opening Lines offer to lease space in the abortion clinic to "perform the harvesting," as well as to "offset [the] clinic's overhead." Opening Lines further boasted, "Our daily average case volume exceeds 1500 and we serve clinics across the United States."

Kelly kept at her grisly task until something made her reconsider. One day, "a set of twins at 24 weeks gestation was brought to us in a pan. They were both alive. The doctor came back and said, 'Got you some good specimens -- twins.' I looked at him and said: 'There's something wrong here. They are moving. I can't do this. This is not in my contract.' I told him I would not be part of taking their lives. So he took a bottle of sterile water and poured it in the pan until the fluid came up over their mouths and noses, letting them drown. I left the room because I could not watch this."

But she did go back and dissect them later. The twins were only the beginning. "It happened again and again. At 16 weeks, all the way up to sometimes even 30 weeks, we had live births come back to us. Then the doctor would either break the neck or take a pair of tongs and beat the fetus until it was dead."

American Enterprise asked Kelly if abortion procedures were ever altered to provide specific body parts. "Yes. Before the procedures they would want to see the list of what we wanted to procure. The (abortionist) would get us the most complete, intact specimens that he could. They would be delivered to us completely intact. Sometimes the fetus appeared to be dead, but when we opened up the chest cavity, the heart was still beating."

The magazine pressed Kelly again: Was the type of abortion ever altered to provide an intact specimen, even if it meant producing a live baby? "Yes, that was so we could sell better tissue. At the end of the year, they would give the clinic back more money because we got good specimens."

Some practical souls will probably swallow hard and insist that, well, if these babies are going to be Aborted anyway, isn't it better that medical research should benefit? No. This isn't like voluntary organ Donation. This reduces human beings to the level of commodities. And it creates of doctors who swore an oath never to kill the kind of people who can beat a breathing child to death with tongs.

(Tacoma, WA, Morning News Tribune, 11/11/99. Mona Charen is a nationally syndicated columnist, former editorial writer for the National Review and was a member of the communications staff in the Reagan White House).

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"It is a very great poverty that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." - Mother Teresa

AZTEC LAW: "The Aztecs practiced polygamy, punished those who indulged in non-procreative sex and imposed the death penalty for abortion." (Because they had such a high demand for living human sacrifices). ("The Mythology of Sex," Sarah Dening, MacMillan Co, NY, NY, pg 40)

J. ROBERT KERREY, NB SENATOR: "The teachings of my church say that I should not kill and --- though I do defend the right of a woman to make these decisions --- a choice to have an abortion does end a life. Arguing whether it is the potential for life or a human being is splitting legal hairs. IN MOST CASES AN ABORTION PREVENTS THE FETUS FROM BECOMING A LIVING, BREATHING, LOVING HUMAN BEING." (Emphasis added) ---J. Robert Kerrey, US Senator, Nebraska, Sept 18, 1998, "An Open Letter to Nebraskans" (on why he sustained a veto of the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act" of 1998.)

GEORGE WILL, LEGAL ABSURDITY: (note: Will is discussing a case where one twin was delivered 88 days early, the other remained in the womb to full term) "....partial-birth abortion, the practice of sucking the brains from the skull of a baby delivered feet first and killed while only the head remains in the mother's uterus. Senators should consider this issue in the light cast by the case of Stephanie and Sandra Bartels of Hull, Iowa.

They are twins born in a South Dakota hospital 88 days apart by what is called "delayed-interval delivery." Stephanie, born Jan. 5 when her mother went into premature labor in the 23rd week of her pregnancy, weighed 1 pound, 2 ounces. Sandra, weighing 7 pounds, 10 ounces, was born April 2, by which time Stephanie weighed 4 pounds, 10 ounces.

For 88 days, while her twin sister's life was protected by the law, Sandra could have been, under the probable terms of the Daschle "compromise," aborted by any abortionist. This is because under any language acceptable to the abortion movement and hence to Clinton and Daschle, a baby does not warrant legal protection merely because she is medically "viable," referring to the point at which she can survive with good medical assistance, a point that now begins at about 23 weeks. Location is the key factor: Unless she is completely outside the mother, she is fair game for the abortionist. (The Abortion Coverup, George F. Will, Thursday, April 24 1997; Page A25, The Washington Post)

ANCIENT EXPOSURE: "Some of the [infant] victims of exposure were brought up by others to meet the demand for slaves, and in the Greek world, there was a continuing argument about the financial rights of people who brought up these exposed "foundlings" and then had them reclaimed: Roman law took a kinder view of their recompense. Exposure is reflected in some, but not all, of the uses of the Greek proper name Kopreus: 'Off the dung heap.'" ("Christians and Pagans," Robin Lane Foxe, pg. 343, Knopf Publishers)

BIBLE: Exodus 21:22-23: "If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life"

BIBLE: Job 10:18-19 'Why then hast Thou brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me! 'I should have been as though I had not been, carried from womb to tomb.'

BIBLE: Jer 20:15-18 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, "A baby boy has been born to you!" {And} made him very happy. But let that man be like the cities which the LORD overthrew without relenting, and let him hear an outcry in the morning and a shout of alarm at noon; because he did not kill me before birth, so that my mother would have been my grave, and her womb ever pregnant. Why did I ever come forth from the womb to look on trouble and sorrow, so that my days have been spent in shame? [Jeremiah says "me" as he would a living, sentient being, not a "blob" of prehuman cells]

BIBLE: Eccl 11:5 Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones {are formed} in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

BIBLE: Ps 139:15-16 My frame was not hidden from Thee, when I was made in secret, {and} skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Thy book they were all written, the days that were ordained {for me} when as yet there was not one of them.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, USA: Presbyterians have struggled with the abortion issue for more than 25 years, beginning in 1970 when a General Assembly statement declared that "the artificial or induced termination of pregnancy is a matter of the careful ethical decision of the patient, . . . and therefore should not be restricted by law . . ."

(1. Minutes of the 182nd General Assembly (1970), Presbyterian Church U.S.A., p 891.) The latest major statement on abortion by a Presbyterian General Assembly came in 1992. Here's an excerpt from that position statement:

. . . There is [both] agreement and disagreement on the basic issue of abortion. The committee [on problem pregnancies and abortion] agreed that there are no biblical texts that speak expressly to the topic of abortion, but that taken in their totality the Holy Scriptures are filled with messages that advocate respect for the woman and child before and after birth. Therefore the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) encourages an atmosphere of open debate and mutual respect for a variety of opinions concerning the issues related to problem pregnancies and abortion. (http://www.pcusa.org/101/101-abortion.htm#N_1_)

CHURCHES FOR ABORTION: "Recently, a number of United Church of Christ executives, including the Rev. Dr. Paul H. Sherry, president of the denomination, joined other religious leaders in sending a letter

to President Clinton supporting his veto of House Resolution 1833, the so-called "Partial Birth Abortion Ban." Other signers included the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Executive Secretary of the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, the President of the Unitarian Universalist Association and the President and President-Elect of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. The letter, sent under the auspices of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, was made public on April 30, 1996. (April 1996, Office of Communication, United Church of Christ)

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, USA:

US PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH VOTES TO ALLOW

"UNRESTRICTED RIGHT" TO ABORTION TILL VIABILITY

WASHINGTON, June 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) - The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted Friday to affirm the "unrestricted right" to abortion prior to the child being able to survive on his/her own outside the womb. After viability, the assembly says, late term abortion is still acceptable but pastoral and medical counsel is advised and it is suggested only in cases of rape, incest, fetal suffering, and to preserve the health and life of the mother.

Judy L. Woods, moderator of the denomination's advisory committee on litigation said "We affirmed the fundamental right to (abortion) prior to viability. But after viability, we have said that although there is still a right to choose, that choice has to be undertaken after prayer and pastoral consultation . . . and only in certain circumstances." The denomination also voted to continue to fund late-term abortions under the church's medical benefits plan. " (
http://www.lifesite.net, Lifesite News, 6-24-02)

MEMBERS OF THE RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE:

(Ohlhoff, Ernest L. Director, National Right to Life http://www.pregnantpause.org/people/wherchur.htm)

MEDICAL CONFESSION: "Abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun" ("A New Ethic for Medicine and Society," California Medicine [editorial]; September 1970)

CONFESSION: "We have reached a point in this particular technology where there is no possibility of denial of an act of destruction by the operator. It is before one's eyes. The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current" [Dr. Warren Hern, Abortionist, at a meeting of the Assoc. of Planned Parenthood Physicians; San Diego, October 26, 1978]

 

CONFESSION: "Paradoxically, I have angry feelings at myself for feeling good about...doing a technically good procedure which destroys a fetus, kills a baby." [New Mexico Abortionist; American Medical News; July 12, 1993]

 

CONFESSION: "Many times" (a clinic nurse said), "women who had just had abortions would lie in the recovery room and cry, 'I've just killed my baby'...I don't know what to say to these women," the nurse told the group. "Part of me thinks, 'Maybe they're right,' "[Abortion Clinic Nurse; American Medical News; July 12, 1993]

 

CONFESSION: "Even if you're pro-choice, no one likes to see a dead fetus." [Vilma Valdez, Education Director, Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami; The Miami Herald, October 24, 1992]

EX-ABORTIONISTS AND WHY THEY QUIT:

1. Abortionist Beverly McMillan on why she stopped doing abortions: "It got to where I couldn't stand to see the little bodies anymore." (Ex-abortionist Mary Meechan, "The Ex-abortionists- They Have Confronted Reality" Washington Post April 1988 A21)

2. Abortion clinic nurse: "We do abortions here. That is all we do. There are weary, grim moments when I think I cannot bear another basin of bloody remains, or utter another kind phrase of reassurance. So I leave the procedure room in the back and reach for a new chart....I prepare myself for another basin, another brief and chafing loss." (Sallie Tisdale "We do Abortions Here" Harper Magazine Oct. 1987 p66)

3. Another worker in the same clinic: "We all wish it [the fetus] were formless, but its not. And its painful. There is a lot of emotional pain." (Sallie Tisdale "We do Abortions Here" Harper Magazine Oct. 1987 p66)

4. "Arms, legs, chests come out in the forceps. It's not a sight for everyone." (Abortionist Dr. William Thompson, quoted in "Is the Fetus Human?" which includes interviews with abortionists and women who have had abortions.

5. "Every woman has these same two questions: First, "Is it a baby?" "No," the counselor assures her, "it is a product of conception (or blood clot or piece of tissue)." Even though these counselors see 6 week babies daily, less than an inch long, with arms, legs, and eyes that are closed like newborn puppies, they lie to the women. How many women would actually have an abortion if they told them the truth?" (Carol Everett, former owner of two abortion clinics and director of four, "A Walk Through an Abortion Clinic" All About Issues Magazine Aug-Sept. 1991, p17)

6. "Is adolescent pregnancy a disease? We have laws regarding other epidemics. We have mandatory immunizations, but we have no law prohibiting motherhood before the age of 14 in our supposedly civilized society. We ought to mandate against continuing pregnancy in the very young, say, those less than 14 years." (Minnesota abortionist Jane Hodgeson, National Abortion Federation Conference at Washington D.C on May 28, 1980)

7. "They [the fetuses] were next to the garbage cans in paper buckets, like the take home chicken kind. I looked inside the bucket in front of me. There was a small, naked person in there, floating in bloody liquid." (Clinic worker Susan Lindstrom, M.S.W., Dr. Magda Denes "Performing Abortions" Commentary, Oct 1976 pp35, 37)

8. "You have to become a bit schizophrenic. In one room you encourage the patient that the slight irregularity of the fetal heart is not important- that she is going to have a fine, healthy baby. Then in the next room, you assure another woman, on whom you just did a saline abortion, that its good that the heart is already irregular....she has nothing to worry about. She is NOT going to have a live baby...... Somebody has to do it. Unfortunately, we are the executioners in this instance." --Abortionist Dr. John Szenes, in Dr. Magda Denes "Performing Abortions" Commentary, Oct 1976 pp35, 37

9. "The first time I felt like a murderer, but I did it again and again, and now, 20 years later, I am facing what happened to me as a doctor and as a human being. Sure, I got hard. Sure, the money was important. And oh, it was an easy thing, once I had taken the step- to see these women as animals and these babies as just tissue...." --abortionist (name withheld), quoted (from radio) by John Rice, D.D. in "Abortion" litt.d., Murfreesboro, TN Sword of the Lord Publishers, p 31

10. "I hate Christians because I know they are forgiven, and I know God will never forgive me for what I do." --abortionist, (name withheld), Women Exploited: the Other Victims of Abortion. Paula Erwin, ed. 1972 New York, p 127

11. "From a strict medical viewpoint, every pregnancy should be aborted." --Abortionist Lisa Fortier, 1980 National Convention of the National Abortion Federation. Quoted in Andrew S Cholberg, "The Abortionists and Planned Parenthood: Familiar Bedfellows" International Review of Family Planning, Winter 1980 p 308

12. "I have never known a woman who, when her baby was born, was not overjoyed I had not killed it." --British abortionist Aleck Bourne, Quoted by James Wilkerson "A Doctor Speaks" London [England] Express, Jan 25, 1967

13. "A medically necessary abortion is any abortion a woman asks for." --Minnesota abortionist Jane Hodgeson, quoted in "Human Life International Report" No. 83 Aug 1991 p 6-7

14. "Oh no, I've done 13 year olds before. When they're ten, maybe I'll notice." --Abortionist Alen J. Kline, on whether he noticed Dawn Ravenell's age while performing the abortion that killed her. (This one appeared in papers throughout the country). 15. "When discussing a sonogram, you are supposed to tell the client that it is a measurement as far as the pregnancy is concerned but not a measure of the fetal head or anything like that." --Mrs. Rosemary Petruso, recounting her training on how to be an abortion counselor. She was told to withhold information and to give even less information to teenagers than to adults. Her story was in the St. Louis Review, Women Exploited, p 60

16. "The 54% of black children born to unwed mothers are not productive members of society. Teenagers never make good mothers....single mothers have bad children." --Nancy White, representative of NARAL quoted in "The American Feminist", Summer 1994, p 14

17. "There was not one [abortion doctor] who, at some point in the questioning, did not say, "This is murder." --Pro-choice author Magda Denes on her two years of research and interviewing of abortion clinic personnel for her book "In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death Inside an Abortion Clinic," quoted by S. J. Powell "Abortion: the Silent Holocaust"

18. "We know that its killing. But the state permits killing under certain circumstances." --Dr. Neville Sender, abortion clinic founder, quoted by Pro-choice author Magda Denes on her two years of research and interviewing of abortion clinic personnel for her book "In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death Inside an Abortion Clinic," quoted by S. J. Powell "Abortion: the Silent Holocaust"

19. "You know that there is something alive in there that you are killing." --Abortionist quoted by Pro-choice author Magda Denes on her two years of research and interviewing of abortion clinic personnel for her book "In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death Inside an Abortion Clinic," quoted by S. J. Powell "Abortion: the Silent Holocaust"

20. "Abortion is the taking of a life." --Pro-abortionist and former Planned Parenthood president Mary Calderone, American Journal of Public Health vol 50 no. 71960

GANDHI & HINDU POSITION: In modern times, India's greatest apostle of nonviolence, Mohandas Gandhi, has written: "It seems to me clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime."

The international periodical Hinduism Today acknowledges: "Across the board, Hindu religious leaders perceive abortion at any stage of fetal development as killing (some say murder)...and as an act that has serious karmic repercussions." For example, Swami Kamalatmananda of the Ramakrishna Monastery in Madras, India, has said: "No human being has the right to destroy the fetus. If having a baby is economically and socially problematic, one can very well take precautions to avoid such unwanted birth rather than killing the baby. Precaution is better than destruction." (http://abortionismurder.org)

*ABORTION, EARLY CHRISTIAN STATEMENTS

74 AD The Letter of Barnabas "The way of light, then, is as follows. If any one desires to travel to the appointed place, he must be zealous in his works. The knowledge, therefore, which is given to us for the purpose of walking in this way, is the following. . . . Thou shalt not slay the child by procuring abortion; nor, again, shalt thou destroy it after it is born" (Letter of Barnabas 19).

137 AD The Apocalypse of Peter: "And near that place I saw another strait place . . . and there sat women . . . And over against them many children who were born to them out of due time sat crying. And there came forth from them rays of fire and smote the women in the eyes. And these were the accursed who conceived and caused abortion" (The Apocalypse of Peter 25).

150 AD DIDACHE: "The second commandment of the teaching: You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure [an] abortion, nor destroy a newborn child" (Didache 2:1)

170 AD MARK FELIX: "There are some women among you who by drinking special potions extinguish the life of the future human in their very bowels, thus committing murder before they even give birth." (Mark Felix, Christian Lawyer, Octavius chap. 30)

177 AD Athenagoras: "What man of sound mind, therefore, will affirm, while such is our character, that we are murderers? . . . [W]hen we say that those women who use drugs to bring on abortion commit murder, and will have to give an account to God for the abortion, on what principle should we commit murder? For it does not belong to the same person to regard the very fetus in the womb as a created being, and therefore an object of God's care, and when it has passed into life, to kill it; and not to expose an infant, because those who expose them are chargeable with child-murder, and on the other hand, when it has been reared to destroy it" (A Plea for the Christians 35, Embassy chap. 5).

177 AD Athenagoras: "What reason would we have to commit murder when we say that women who induce abortions are murderers, and will have to give account of it to God? For the same person would not regard the fetus in the womb as a living thing and therefore an object of God's care, and at the same time slay it, once it had come to life." (Athenagoras Plea, ch.35)

210 AD TERTULLIAN: "Among surgeons' tools there is a certain instrument, which is formed with a nicely-adjusted flexible frame for opening the uterus first of all and keeping it open; it is further furnished with an annular blade, by means of which the limbs [of the child] within the womb are dissected with anxious but unfaltering care; its last appendage being a blunted or covered hook, wherewith the entire fetus is extracted by a violent delivery. "There is also [another instrument in the shape of] a copper needle or spike, by which the actual death is managed in this furtive robbery of life: They give it, from its infanticide function, the name of embruosphaktes, [meaning] "the slayer of the infant," which of course was alive. . . ." [The doctors who performed abortions] all knew well enough that a living being had been conceived, and [they] pitied this most luckless infant state, which had first to be put to death, to escape being tortured alive" (The Soul 25).

210 AD TERTULLIAN: "In our case, a murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from the other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier man-killing; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in its seed" (Apology 9:8).

210 AD TERTULLIAN: "Now we allow that life begins with conception because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does" (Apology 27).

210 AD TERTULLIAN: "The law of Moses, indeed, punishes with due penalties the man who shall cause abortion [Ex. 21:22]

226 AD Minucius Felix: "There are some [pagan] women who, by drinking medical preparations, extinguish the source of the future man in their very bowels and thus commit a parricide before they bring forth. And these things assuredly come down from the teaching of your [false] gods. . . . To us [Christians] it is not lawful either to see or hear of homicide" (Octavius 30).

228 AD HIPPOLYTUS: "Women who were reputed to be believers began to take drugs to render themselves sterile, and to bind themselves tightly so as to expel what was being conceived, since they would not, on account of relatives and excess wealth, want to have a child by a slave or by any insignificant person. See, then, into what great impiety that lawless one has proceeded, by teaching adultery and murder at the same time!" (Refutation of All Heresies).

250 AD DIOGNETUS: (a likely reference to both exposure of infants to die and abortion): "(Christians) marry, like everyone else, and they beget children, but they do not cast out their offspring." (Letter of Diognetus (late 2nd or 3rd century; ch.5, vs.6)

*ABORTION, NAZI / MODERN STATEMENTS

(ALL QUOTES BELOW ARE FROM MCCL, MINN. CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR LIFE, 4803 NICOLLET AV., MINN., MINN. 55409)

LAWS:

"A doctor may interrupt a pregnancy when it "threatens the life or health of the mother" and "an unborn child that is likely to present hereditary and transmissible defects may be destroyed." (German Penal Code and Hamburg Eugenics Court, 1933)

"A licensed physician is justified in terminating a pregnancy if he believes that pregnancy would gravely impair the physical or mental health of the mother or that of the child would be born with grave physical or mental defect." (American Law Institute Model Penal Code, 1962)

"Only persons of "German or related blood can be citizens; this does not include Jews." (Reich Citizenship Law, 1935)

"The word 'person' as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn." (US Supreme court, Roe v. Wade, 1973)

"The authority of physicians is enlarged to include the responsibility for according a "mercy death" to "incurables." (Hitler's Euthanasia Order, September, 1939)

"The abortion decision in all its aspects is inherently and primarily a medical decision and basic responsibility for it must rest with the physician." (US Supreme court, Roe v. Wade, 1973)

OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY:

"The accused did not act wrongly because they were covered by law" [and they] "were carrying out the laws of the land." (Hadamar Euthanasia Hospital Trial, 1945)

"I did nothing which was illegal, immoral or bad medicine. Everything I did was in accordance with law." (Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin, 1975)

"The physician is merely an instrument as in the case of an officer who receives an order." (Dr. Karl Brandt, doctors' Trial, 1947)

"The physician is only the instrument of her [the mother] decision." (Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, 1974)

SUBHUMANITY OF THE VICTIMS:

"The Jewish-Bolshevik commissars personify a repulsive yet characteristic subhumanity." (Dr. August Hirt, 1942)

"For the first four and one-half months the fetus is subhuman and relatively close to a piece of tissue." (Amital Etzioni, Ph.D., 1976)

"It had nothing to do with humanity - it was a mass. I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass." (Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka death camp, 1971)

"What is aborted is a protoplasmic mass and not a real, live grownup individual." (Drs. Walter Char and John McDermott, 1972.)

"Whenever Jews are left to themselves they bring brutal misery and depravity. They are pure parasites." (Adolf Hitler, 1943)

"A parasite can commit murder. What attention has Catholic thinking or the law given to the fetus's capacity to murder its mother?" (Dr. Natalie Shalness, 1968)

"If it is now pointed out that the Jew is human, I then reject that totally." (Anti-Semitic speech, Reichstag, 1895)

"It is a wild contention that newborn babies are persons." (Dr. Michael Tooley, 1972)

THE LANGUAGE OF KILLING:

"Fifty-nine thousand persons were evacuated by July 31." (Warsaw, Poland, 1942)

"The uterus was evacuated." (Dr. David Edelman and colleagues, 1974)

"The Baron de Hirsch ghetto would have to be emptied." (Max Merten, 1943)

"The uterine cavity was emptied." (Dr. AK Mukerjee, 1973)

"The removal of the Jewish element." (Hans Frank, 1943)

"Remove the products of conception." (Dr. Thomas Dillon and colleagues, 1974)

"The treatment was administered to the children of the Haar-Eglfing Institution." (Dr. Pfannmuller, 1945)

"Abortion as treatment for the sexually transmitted diseasse of unwanted pregnancy." (Dr. Willard Cates and colleagues, 1976)

"The method of injection is a completely painless method." (Dr. Adolf Wahlmann, 1945)

"Evacuate the conceptus painlessly within 45 seconds." (Dr. Harvey Karman, 1972)

EXPERIMENTAL EXPLOITATION:

"If you are going to kill all these people, at least take the brains out so that the material could be utilized." (Testimony of Dr. Julius Hallervorden, 1947)

"With changes in the abortion laws fetuses as valuable research material is on the increase." (Dr. Leroy Jackson, 1975)

"The victims of this Buchenwald typus test did not suffer in vain and did not die in vain...people were saved by these experiments." (Dr. Gebhard Rose, Doctors' Trial, 1947)

"In the case of abortion the fetus cannot be 'helped' by being experimented upon since it is doomed to death anyhow, but perhaps its death can be ennobled...when the research has as its objective the saving of th lives (or the reduction of defects) of other wanted fetuses." (Drs. Willard Gaylin and Mark Lappe, 1975)

HUMANE KILLING:

"What good does it do to humanity to maintain artificially and rear the thousands of cripples, deaf mutes, and idiots? Is it not better and more rational to cut off from the first this unavoidable misery which their poor lives will bring to themselves and their families?" (Dr. Ernst Haeckel, medical and biological scientist and father of National Socialism, 1904)

"Most birth defects are not discovered until birth. If a child were not declared alive until three days after birth, the doctor could allow the child to die if the parents so choose and save a lot of misery and suffering. I believe this view is the only rational, compassionate attitude to have." (Dr. James D. Watson, Nobel Prize winning scientist, 1973)

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS:

"The enormous costs imposed on our society by congenital defectives is calculated to be 1.2 million marks annually." (Dr. Gerhard Wagner, 1935)

"Institutional care for Downs syndrome alone represents an expense of $250-$300 million per year." (Institute of Medicine, Naitonal Academy of Sciences, 1975)

"By exterminating these useless eaters it would be possible to relieve doctors, nurses, hospital beds and other facilities." (Viktor Brack, Doctors' Trial, 1946)

"Five billion dollars would be saved in the next half century if the state of Florida's mongoloids were permitted merely to succumb to penumonia." (Dr. Walter W. Sackett, 1973)

(ALL QUOTES ABOVE ARE FROM MCCL, MINN. CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR LIFE, 4803 NICOLLET AV., MINN., MINN. 55409)

*ACADEMIA

(The honesty of academia and why we should always strongly question their statements).

Excerpts from "Against the Tide: An Interview with Maverick Scholar Cyrus Gordon," from Biblical Archaeology Review, Nov/Dec 2000

Cyrus Gordon is a scholar of enormous range. His bibliography of more than 35 books and 350 articles is divided into over 20 categories, focusing largely on linguistics and social history. Among them are Aramaic-Syriac-Mandaic studies, art and archaeology of the Near East, Assyriology, Biblical studies, Egypto-Semitic studies, Minoan, and Phoenician and Hebrew inscriptions. [He reads 20 ancient languages fluently and speaks English, French, German as well as being able to pass sight-reading exams in six other modern languages -- PM].

... he has had important mentors and approximately 60 devoted, sometimes adoring, Ph.D. students (many of whom are now senior scholars in their own right) but few colleague friends. "Academia," he has written, "is full of litigious and ill-willed people." Famous scholars like Ephraim A. Speiser tried to "destroy" him. William F. Albright treated him "misanthropically" and kept him on "unilateral respiration." One college president where he taught was "dictatorial"; another was "vindictive and ruthless." His academic colleagues were some-times "jealous" and "vicious," resorting to "shameless 'dirty tricks.'"

Cyrus Gordon occupies his own unique scholarly niche, however. Throughout his long career, he has been, as he describes himself, "a disturber of the pax academical Although his career "has been fraught with pain," he has also had the "satisfactions that scholars who live by conformity and compromise can never know."

Q:What was your impression of Albright? [A famed archaeologist and his mentor]

He was revered. Albright was looked upon as a genius. But he built himself up.

Q:In what way?

I'll give you one example. It's how I got into Egyptology. Albright was giving a course in Egyptian-I think in Jerusalem. And only one student had signed up. I felt he'd be happy that I joined; it's nicer to have two students than one. He kicked me out of the class. I asked him why. "You know too many languages already." He kicked me out because I knew too much already. Did you ever hear of anything like that? Coming from a man of that position and stature?

Later, I got a job teaching Assyriology at Dropsie [a college for Hebrew studies in Philadelphia]. When I arrived I was told I was to teach Assyriology and Egyptology. I didn't know Egyptian. But whenever people did this to me, I never disillusioned them. I tried to live up to their illusions. So I taught a course in Egyptian. I taught semester after semester. And I never read the same literary text. I always changed things; I either read Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian or Coptic. At the end of the ten and a half years I was there, I was known as the most distinguished of the Coptologists outside of the University of Chicago and a man at the University of Michigan.

This, by the way, is characteristic of me. When I was to write my doctoral thesis, Montgomery said to me, "It takes a Jewish scholar to read rabbinic texts- the Babylonian Talmud, the Jerusalem Talmud. You're a Jewish scholar. You can do this. I want you to write on the rabbinic exegesis of the Vulgate of Proverbs." Now, I could have said, "Look, I may be Jewish, but I wasn't born with a knowledge of the Jerusalem Talmud." I mean, this isn't something that is part of the baggage of being Jewish. But I didn't say that. My first instinct was to live up to his illusions.

Q:Where did. you excavate in Iraq?

In two places near Nineveh-Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra. Fred [Ephraim A.] Speiser was the director of both of these digs. But after a year he went back to Amer-ica to run things from headquarters [at the University of Pennsylvania]. Speiser wanted to undo me completely, ruin me.

Q:Why?

I'm not a psychiatrist. The best I can figure, I think he sensed in me a person who could not be trusted to abide by the consensus. I mean, how can you trust a guy who says that you have to look at original sources and if the consensus doesn't fit in and your new facts are right, then you don't accept the consensus? That's the best I can make of it.

Speiser was bright, Albright was certainly bright. And the two of them hated each other, which was fortunate for me, because my business until I got tenure was simply survival. Speiser wanted Albright to fire me. So Albright made a deal with Speiser. He [Albright] would take me as his assistant at Johns Hopkins, and I'd stay there for three years. And Speiser could keep a nobody as his stooge at the dig while he remained in Philadelphia.

You know, academia is not a pretty place. I guess you've discovered that, haven't you?

Qh So you were fired?

No, they did something else. They gave me a great honor. They named me the first Albert T. Clay Fellow without a salary. So here I was going back to America, and I was given this very great honor. But I never acknowledged it. I felt that what they considered an honor was simply a first-class burial."

*ADULTERY

(Excellent statement showing why easy divorce is unfair and destructive to the innocent party today): "Someone who is going to work for many years to have his own home wants some fairly rigid assurance that the house will in fact belong to him -- that he cannot be dispossessed by someone who is physically stronger, better armed, or more ruthless, or who is deemed more 'worthy' by political authorities. Rigid assurances are needed that changing fashions, mores, and power relationships will not suddenly deprive him of his property, his children, or his life. Informal relationships which flourish in a society do so within the protection of formal laws on property, ownership, kidnapping, murder, and other basic matters on which people want rigidity rather than continuously negotiable or modifiable relationships." (Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, NY: Collier, 1978, p. 39)

*ADVENTIST, 7TH DAY

SDA CREED: "The gift of Prophecy: One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is prophecy. This gift is an identifying mark of the remnant church and was manifested in the ministry of Ellen G. White. As the Lord's messenger, her writings are a continuing and authoritative source of truth which provide for the church comfort, guidance, instruction, and correction. They also make clear that the Bible is the standard by which all teaching and experience must be tested. Support is found in these Bible passages: Joel 2:28,29: Acts 2:14-21: Hebrews 1:1-3: Revelation 12:17: Revelation 19:10" --Official SDA Creed, item #17

SDA PROPHECIES

"ELLEN G. WHITE (1827-1915) was the author of 55 volumes translated internationally into 100 languages with close to 20,000,000 copies in circulation. She is considered to have been inspired by God. Many of her prophecies about world events and the modern-day condition of man have already been dramatically fulfilled. Her insights into the fields of medicine and nutrition are being progressively substantiated by scientific research. Her words have lifted mankind and have helped bring the truths of Christianity to uncounted millions the world over." (The Great Controversy, back cover, 1975)

"At this time (20th century) the special endowment of the divine grace and power is not less needful to the church than in the apostolic day. Through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, the scenes of the long-continued conflict between good and evil have been opened to the writer of these pages. From time to time I have been permitted to behold the working, in different ages, of the great controversy between Christ ... and Satan." (The Great Controversy, 1975, p. 13)

"As the Spirit of God has opened my mind the great truths of His word, and the scenes of the past and the future, I have been bidden to make known to others that which has thus been revealed. " (The Great Controversy, 1975, p. 14)

ELLEN G WHITE, 1867: "Although I am as dependent upon the Spirit of the Lord in writing my views as I am in receiving them, yet the words I employ in describing what I have seen are my own." (EGW, Selected Messages, 3 bks. (Washington: RHPA, 19585880), bk. l, p. 37)

In 1876 she was to say:

ELLEN G WHITE, 1876: "In ancient times God spoke to men by the mouth of prophets and apostles. In these days He speaks to them by the Testimonies of His Spirit." (EGW, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4, pp. 14748. Testimony 27; 1876.)

Placing herself and her writings on an increasingly elevated level, she said in 1882:

ELLEN G WHITE, 1882: "If you lessen the confidence of God's people in the testimonies He has sent them, you are rebelling against God as certainly as were Korah, Dathan, and Abiram." (EGW, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p. 66. Testimony 31; 1882.)

ELLEN G WHITE, 1882: "When I went to Colorado I was so burdened for you that, in my weakness, I wrote many pages to be read at your camp meeting. Weak and trembling, I arose at three o'clock in the morning to write you. God was speaking through clay. You might say that this communication was only a letter. Yes, It was a letter, but prompted by the Spirit of God, to bring before your minds things that had been shown me. In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper, expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision-the precious rays of light shining from the throne." "What voice will you acknowledge as the voice of God? What power has the Lord in reserve to correct your errors and show you your course as it is? ... If you refuse to believe until every shadow of uncertainty and every possibility of doubt is removed, you will never believe. The doubt that demands perfect knowledge will never yield to faith. Faith rests upon evidence, not demonstration. The Lord requires us to obey the voice of duty, when there are other voices all around us urging us to pursue an opposite course. It requires earnest attention from us to distinguish the voice which speaks from God." (EGW, Selected Messages, bk. l, p. 27.)

EG WHITE’S "vision" of the Sabbath day: "Elder Bates was resting upon Saturday, the seventh day of the week, and he urged it upon our attention as the true Sabbath. I did not feel its importance, and thought that he erred in dwelling upon the fourth commandment more than upon the other nine. But the Lord gave me a view of the heavenly sanctuary. The temple of God was opened in heaven, and I was shown the ark of God covered with the mercy seat. Two angels stood one at either end of the ark with their wings spread over the mercy seat and their faces turned toward it. This, my accompanying angel informed me, represented all the heavenly hosts looking with reverential awe toward the law of God ;which had been written by the finger of God. Jesus raised the cover of the ark, and I beheld the tables of stone on which the Ten Commandments were written. I was amazed as I saw the fourth commandment in the very center of the ten precepts with a soft halo of light encircling it. Said the angel, 'It is the only one of the ten which defines the living God who created the heavens and the earth and all things that are therein."' ("Life Sketches of Ellen G. White," pg 95-96.)

EG WHITE: "In the ark was the golden pot of manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of stone, which folded together like a book. Jesus opened them, and I saw the Ten Commandments written on them with the finger of God. On one table were Four and on the other six. The four on the first table shone brighter than the other six. But the fourth, the Sabbath commandment, shone above them all; for the Sabbath was set apart to be kept in honor of God's holy name. The holy Sabbath looked gloriousa halo of glory was all around it. I saw that the Sabbath commandment was not nailed to the cross. If it was, the other nine commandments were; and we are at liberty to break them all as well as to break the fourth. I saw that God had not changed the Sabbath, for he never changes. But the pope had changed it from the seventh day to the first day of the week; for he was to change times and laws." ("Early Writings of Ellen G. White," page 33.) EG White, pg 65: "The pope has changed the day of rest from the seventy to the first day."

SDA LEADERS ACCEPT EG WHITE’S "INSPIRED" WRITINGS

  1. E. E. CLEVELAND: "I believe in the Testimonies. MRS. WHITE'S WRITINGS ARE THE WORLD'S Only Inspired Bible Commentary. They Constitute the most serious challenge to Christian Living That Has Come To The Church Since John's Patmos Revelation..." E. E. Cleveland, At One Time Assoc. Sec., Ministerial Assoc., Gen. Conf. SDA’s. As Quoted In "Facts And Com Meets About The Spirit Of Prophecy", P. 14
  2. STANLEY HARRIS: "...and yet, my dear friends, SHE DID ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS THAT I HAVE EVER KNOWN SINCE JOHN THE REVELATOR. SHE'S TO ME ONE OF THE GREATEST PROPHETS THAT HAVE EVER Lived. Why.? Because SHE HAD THE SAME GIFT THAT Daniel HAD..." -- Stanley Harris, cassette tape "Greatest Prophet Since John", from God's Last Call, tape #811, SDA pastor.
  3. RAYMOND COTTRELL: "ELLEN WHITE REINTERPRETS DANIEL for our time. And because I fully believe and am convinced that God spoke to and through Ellen White, I accept her writings 100%. I accept Ellen White's reinterpretation, her approval of the Adventist interpretation of the heavenly sanctuary, the Investigative Judgment and 1844, because I accept her as an inspired writer..." -- Raymond F. Cottrell, in talk given for Association of Adventist Forums, Loma Linda, CA shortly after the Glacier View meetings. I can provide the cassette tape for documentation if you need it, and the exact date.
  4. SDA SABBATH SCHOOL QUARTERLY: "THE BIBLE AND THE WRITINGS OF ELLEN WHITE ARE INERRANT..." -- Feb. 11, 1978, Sabbath School-Quarterly; teacher's Edition, p. 112
  5. OFFICIAL SDA POSITION, 1928: "As Samuel was a prophet of Israel for his day, as JEREMIAH WAS A PROPHET OF ISRAEL in the days of captivity, as JOHN THE BAPTIST came as a special messenger of the Lord to prepare the way for Christ's coming, so WE BELIEVE THAT MRS. WHITE WAS A PROPHET TO THE CHURCH OF CHRIST TODAY." -- Official position of the SDA Church taken in 1928.
  6. LOUIS VENDEN: "I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT HERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DEGREE AND QUALITY DIMENSION OF THE INSPIRATION OF ANY BIBLICAL WRITER AND ELLEN WHITE...I believe that the Desire of Ages, for example, is just as high in quality or degree of inspiration as the Gospel according to Luke...What is the best way to keep it all in perspective and end up with ELLEN WHITE BEING FOR THIS CHURCH WHAT LUKE WAS for his generation and not one whit less in contribution and AUTHORITY." -- Louis Venden, as quoted on cassette tape "The Wilson Committee-Rea On Ellen G. White"
  7. GLACIER VIEW DOCUMENT: "...HER AUTHORITY TRANSCENDS THAT OF ALL NON-INSPIRED INTERPRETER' OF THE SCRIPTURES..." -- Cassette tape 8/23/80, Pacific Union College, in a discussion o Glacier View with Charles Bradford and Philip Follett. Follett was quoting from official Glacier View document: "The Relation of Ellen White's Writings in Doctrinal Studies"
  8. SDA BOOK: "Elder I. H. Evans, the General Conference representative at the conference declared: 'When the statement from Sister White is read, I am sure that the majority of our brethren will feel as we feel tonight - that THE LORD HAS SPOKEN, AND WE WILL OBEY."'-Quoted in "The Invisible Irishman", p. 484, by Merlin Neff
  9. ALDEN THOMPSON: "Second, I began to realize how creative ELLEN WHITE HAD BEEN IN INTERPRETING THE OLD TESTAMENT. AS I COMPARED HER INTERPRETATIONS in Patriarchs and Prophets with Scripture, I FOUND THEM MUCH MORE UNDERSTANDABLE THAN THE BARE OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVES...I liked what Ellen White did, but upon reflection I decided that I had probably been slighting the Bible in favor of Patriarchs and Prophets..." -- Alden Thom son, SDA pastor and professor at Walla Walla College, as quoted in "Adventist Review" 12/17/81, article entitled "The story of a pilgrimage", p. 7
  10. QUESTION: Do Seventh-day Adventists regard the writings of Ellen G. White as on an equal plane with the writings of the Bible? Do you place her in the prophetic class with such men as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel?
  11. ANSWER: That we do not regard them in the same sense as the Holy Scriptures...We have never considered Ellen G. White to be in the same category as the writers of the canon of Scripture.
  12. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST LEADERS Claim THAT ELLEN G. WHITE "HAS EQUAL AUTHORITY WITH THE BIBLE" AND BIBLE WRITERS AND PLACE HER IN THE SAME PROPHETIC CLASS WITH "JOHN THE REVELATOR, JEREMIAH AND DANIEL"
  13. MORRIS VENDEN: "I'd like to take this position, that if you do not believe in the gift of prophecy, based on what the Bible has to say on it, that you don't believe in the Bible ...The primary purpose of the gift of prophecy in relationship to scripture is to confirm Scripture truth. WE TOOK THE POSITION LAST TIME THAT THE GIFT OF PROPHECY HAS EQUAL AUTHORITY WITH THE BIBLE AND EQUAL INSPIRATION WITH THE BIBLE." -- Morris L. Venden, Cassette tape #MY-312 "Church Body Building". Venden was specifically referring to Ellen G. White and the gift of prophecy in the Seventh-day Adventist church.
  14. RAYMOND COTTRELL: "The Bible speaks to all the world; the writings of Ellen White were addressed primarily to the remnant church. Herein lies the only significant difference between them. THE PERSON WHO LISTENS TO BOTH with an open mind WILL HEAR THE SAME VOICE SPEAKING THROUGH BOTH, WITH EQUAL AUTHORITY." -- Raymond F. Cottrell, as quoted in "What Ellen White Has Meant to Me," p. 60
  15. RON GRAYBILL: "THE QUALITY OF INSPIRATION OF ELLEN WHITE IS EQUAL TO THAT OF THE BIBLE WRITERS..." -- Ron Graybill, at that time Assoc. Sec. EGW Estate, in talk given at Southern Missionary College 9/27/80
  16. KENNETH WOOD: "ELLEN G. WHITE WAS INSPIRED IN THE SAME SENSE AS WERE THE BIBLE PROPHETS.'' -- Kenneth H. Wood, Editor "Review" as quoted in RH 9/4/80, p. 15
  17. DON NEUFELD: "SHE WAS INSPIRED BY GOD AS WERE THE BIBLICAL WRITERS..." -- The late Don
  18. Neufeld, Assoc. Editor "Review" as quoted in "What Ellen White Has Meant to Me,", p. 157
  19. ROBERT OLSON: "I believe that BOTH ELLEN G. WHITE AND THE APOSTLE PAUL WERE TRUE PROPHETS WHO WROTE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. MY REASON FOR BELIEVING IN THE INSPIRATION OF ONE IS IDENTICAL WITH MY REASON FOR BELIEVING IN THE INSPIRATION OF THE OTHER."- Robert Olson, Sec. EGW Estate, as quoted in "What Ellen White Has Meant to Me," p. 165
  20. D.A. DELAFIELD: "INSOFAR AS ELLEN WHITE'S ROLE IN THE CHURCH IS CONCERNED-- WHETHER PASTORAL OR CANONICAL- I think we must here give pause and rethink the acceptance with ease of Ford" proposition. In his forum talk at P.U.C. HE INDICATED THAT ELLEN WHITE'S ROLE WAS PASTORAL NOT CANONICAL. This is a gross perversion of the truth...The real conflict and issue today is this: ARE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS BEING CONDITIONED TO VIEW ELLEN WHITE AS PASTORAL AND NOT CANONICAL? Shall we accept the view that a Seventh-day Adventist theologian is more dependable than a Seventh-day Adventist prophet? I highly respect many of our Seventh-day Adventist theologians. I have sat at their feet and been taught by them. I admire and respect them highly. I would like to remind you, however, that you can search the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you will not find a single text marking out theologians as having the gift of the Holy Sprit. The Scriptures indicate however, that prophets have a gift of the Holy Spirit. ELLEN WHITE HAD THAT GIFT AND SHE WAS CANONICAL INSOFAR AS DOCTRINAL INTERPRETATION AUTHORITY IS CONCERNED..." -- Letter from D. A. Delafiel trustee of the EGW Estate, to P. C. Drewer, June 24, 1981. Note: Delafield's letter was tampered with and the phrase that EGW was "canonical insofar as doctrinal interpretation" was deleted. See attached.
  21. ROBERT PIERSON: "No excuses are made for her contributions...I speak these words after nearly forty years of denominational service...HER WRITINGS HELP US UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE ..." -- Robert Pierson, former President, General Conference of SDA’s, as quoted in "What Sister White Has Meant To Me" and quoted in "Christianity Today" 8/29/75
  22. PHILIP FOLLETT: "...THE WRITINGS OF ELLEN WHITE ARE INSPIRED IN THE SAME SENSE AS THE BIBLE IS INSPIRED..." -- Taken from cassette tape "What Happened At Glacier View", PUC, August 23, 1 980
  23. ROBERT OLSON: "Thank you for your letter of February 6, in which you made reference to Elder Walter Rea's meeting in Glendale, California,. I think you have somehow gotten the wrong impression of that meeting, because it took no particular courage on my part to vote the way I did. All of the votes of the committee were unanimous. There was no problem with any of the actions that were taken. When we acknowledged that Ellen White had engaged in a certain amount of literary borrowing, WE WERE NOT DIMINISHING HER AUTHORITY AS A PROPHET in the least. The brethren here in the General Conference do recognize that most of our people do not understand how inspired writings were developed, NOT ONLY IN THE CASE OF ELLEN WHITE, BUT ALSO IN THE CASE OF THE BIBLE Authors..." -- Letter from Robert Olson, Secretary, EGW Estate, to Eryl A. Cummings, February 21, 1980
  24. THE ADVENT REVIEW & HERALD, Supplement, August 14, 1883: "Our position on the Testimonies (Mrs. White's writings) is like the keystone to the arch. Take that out and there is no logical stopping place till all the special truths of the message are gone. Nothing is surer than this, that this message and the visions (of Mrs. White ) belong together."
  25. THE ADVENT REVIEW & HERALD Oct 4, 1928: They state further that her writings should "be received, the same as were the messages of the prophets of old. As Samuel was a prophet to Israel in his day, as Jeremiah was a prophet to Israel in the days of captivity, as John the Baptist came as a special messenger of the Lord to prepare the way for Christ's appearing, so we believe that Mrs. White was a prophet to the church of Christ today. And the same as the messages of the prophets were received in old days, so her message should be received at present times."
  26. THE ADVENT REVIEW & HERALD 10/4/1928: "Seventh-Day Adventists hold that Ellen G. White performed the work of a true prophet during the seventy years of her public ministry. As Samuel was a prophet, as Jeremiah was a prophet, as John the Baptist, so we believe that Mrs. White was a prophet to the church of Christ today."
  27. EG WHITE: "In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own views. They are what God had opened to me in vision-the precious ray of light shining from the throne" (Testimonies Vol.5, p. 67)."If you lessen the confidence of God's people in the testimonies (Mrs. White's visions and dreams)He has sent them, you are rebelling against God" (Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 66)"In ancient times God spake to men by the mouth of prophets and apostles. In these days He speaks to them by the Testimonies of His Spirit...The Lord has seen fit to give me a view of the need and errors of His people" (EGW, Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 661).
  28. EG WHITE: "God was speaking through clay. In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision the precious rays of light shining from the throne." VISIONS OF MRS. E. G. WHITE TESTIMONY 31 p. 63
  29. THE GREAT CONTROVERSY: "We believe she has been empowered by divine illumination to speak of past events which have been brought to her attention with a greater minuteness than is set forth in any existing records, and to read the future with more than human foresight." (by inference, this means the Bible, though Adventists will deny this). (Publisher's preface, The Great Controversy)
  30. Erwin, the President of the General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, affirmed the proposition in an actual debate that "the visions of Mrs. E. G. White are the revelations of God."
  31. "When I send you a testimony of warning and reproof, many of you declare it to be merely the opinion of Sister White. You have thereby insulted the Spirit of God." E. G. WHITE, TESTIMONIES Vol 5 p. 661
  32. "Those who are reproved by the Spirit of God should not rise up against the humble instrument. It is God, and not an erring mortal, who has spoken to save them from ruin." TESTIMONY FOR THE CHURCH Vol 3 p. 257
  33. "A week after her first happy vision Ellen received a second vision in which God called her formally to work for Him as a prophet." MOVING OUT, Unit 4 p. 115
  34. "In ancient times God spoke to men by mouth of prophets and apostles. In these days He speaks to them by the testimonies of His Spirit...The Lord has seen fit to give me a view of the needs and errors of His People." (E. G. WHITE, TESTIMONIES, Volume 5, p 661)
  35. "God was speaking through clay. In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision the precious rays of light shining from the throne." VISIONS OF MRS. E. G. WHITE TESTIMONY 31 p. 63
  36. "When I send you a testimony of warning and reproof, many of you declare it to be merely the opinion of Sister White. You have thereby insulted the Spirit of God." E. G. WHITE TESTIMONIES Vol 5 p. 661
  37. "Those who are reproved by the Spirit of God should not rise up against the humble instrument. It is God, and not an erring mortal, who has spoken to save them from ruin." TESTIMONY FOR THE CHURCH Vol 3 p. 257
  38. THE ADVENT REVIEW & HERALD 10/4/1928: "Seventhday Adventists hold that Ellen G. White performed the work of a true prophet during the seventy years of her public ministry. As Samuel was a prophet, as Jeremiah was a prophet, as John the Baptist, so we believe that Mrs. White was a prophet to the church of Christ today."
  39. "A week after her first happy vision Ellen received a second vision in which God called her formally to work for Him as a prophet." MOVING OUT Unit 4 p. 115

FAILED PROPHECIES OF ELLEN G WHITE

ENDORSED WM MILLER’S FAILED PROPHECY: "I have seen that the 1843 chart (Wm. Miller's) was directed by the hand of the Lord and that it should not be altered that the figures were as he wanted them." EARLY WRITINGS p. 64 edition 1882

FIRST VISION 12/1844: "It was just as impossible for them (those that gave up their faith in the 1844 movement) to get on the path again and go to the city, as all the wicked world which God had rejected. They fell all the way along the path one after another," (Foregoing now deleted) "until we heard the voice of God like many waters, WHICH GAVE US THE DAY AND HOUR OF JESUS' COMING. The living saints, 144,000 in number, knew and understood the voice, while the wicked thought it was thunder and an earthquake. When God spake the time, he poured on us the Holy Ghost, and our faces began to light up and shine with the glory of God as Moses' did when he came down from Mount Sinai." A WORD TO THE LITTLE FLOCK (1847 edition) p. 14

WHITE FORGETS HOUR PROCLAIMED: "I have not the slightest knowledge as to the time spoken by the voice of God. I heard the hour proclaimed, but had no remembrance of that hour after I came out of vision." SELECTED MESSAGES 1 p. 298 (1889)

WHITE LOST HER VISIONS: "In our frequent change of location in the earlier history of the publishing work, and I have crossed the plains no less than 17 times I lost all trace of the first published works." . . . "And here I pause to state that any of our people having in their possession a copy of any or all of my first views, as published prior to 1851, will do me a great favor if they will send them to me without delay." SELECTED MESSAGES 1 p. 60

DATE REVISED: "It is well known that many were expecting the Lord to come at the 7th month, 1845. That Christ would then come we firmly believed. A few days before the time passed, I was at Fairhaven, and Dartsmouth, Mass, with a message on this point of time. At this time, Ellen was with the band at Carver, Mass, where she saw in vision, that we should be disappointed." A WORD TO THE LITTLE FLOCK p. 22 by James White 1847

DATE REVISED: E. G. White prophesied the world would end in 1843, 1844, 1845 & 1851: "Now time is almost finished, (1851) and what we have been 6 years in learning they will have to learn in months." EARLY WRITINGS p. 57

SALVATION CLOSED DOWN IN 1844: "For a time after the disappointment in 1844, I did hold, in common with the advent body, that the door of mercy was then forever closed to the world . . . I was shown in vision, and I still believe, that there was a shut door in 1844." SELECTED MESSAGES 1 p. 63

"IT’S YOUR FAULT, NOT MINE!": "Thus the work was hindered, and the world was left in darkness. Had the whole Adventist body united upon the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, how widely different would have been our history." SELECTED MESSAGES, Book 1, p. 299

STYLISH REVELATION: "In one of her visions her accompanying angels told her that the time of salvation for all sinners ended in 1844. She now claims the door of mercy is still open...In another vision she discovered that women should wear short dresses with pants and she and her sister followers dressed this way for eight years. But the ridiculous custom has now been abandoned....'' --Biederwolf, Seventh-Day Adventism, p. 8f

NONSENSE: She also affirms that her "visits'' to heaven were easily made because after having left there during one of her visits an angel "handed me a green cord coiled up closely. This he directed me to place next to my heart, and when I wished to see Jesus, take from my bosom and stretch it to the utmost. He cautioned me not to let it remain coiled for any length of time lest it should become knotted and difficult to straighten."

1856: "I was shown the company present at the Conference. Said the angel: Some food for worms, some subject to the last plagues, some will be alive and remain upon the earth to be translated at the coming of Jesus.'" (Vol. 1, p. 131).

SLAVERY: "Thousands have been induced to enlist with the understanding that this war to exterminate slavery, but now that they are fixed, they find that they have been deceived, that the object of this war is not to abolish slavery, but to preserve it." (Vol. 1, pp. 254, 258). NOTE: This is refuted by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

ENGLAND TO DECLARE WAR: "This nation will yet be humbled into the dust. England is studying whether it is best to take advantage of the present weak condition of our nation and venture to make war on her...When England does declare war, all nations will have one interest of their own to serve, and there will be general war, general confusion." (Vol.1 p.259). NOTE: This was a failed prophecy. England never declared war on the U.S.A.

FOODS: "Eggs should not be placed upon your table. They are an injury to your children" (Vol. 2, p. 400). "We bare positive testimony against tobacco, rich cakes, spirituous liquors, snuff, tea, coffee, flesh meats, butter, spice, mince pies..." (Vol. 3, p. 21).

"Children are allowed to eat flesh meats, spices, butter, cheese, pork, rich pastry...These things do their work of deranging the stomach" (Vol. 3, p. 136). Mrs. White places "meat, butter and cheese" in the same category as tobacco, liquor, etc.

Compare: Jesus ate fish (Luke 24:41-43). John 21:9-12 Jesus prepared flesh meat and said to His disciples, "Come and eat." Jesus ate butter (Isaiah 7:15). Mrs. White said, "Do not eat" but Jesus said, "Come and dine." Paul said, "In the latter times some shall depart from the faith...commanding to abstain from meats which God had created to be received" (1 Timothy 4:3).

JESUS’ RETURN: "Soon we heard the voice of God like many waters which gave us the day and hour of Jesus coming...When God spoke the time, He poured upon us the Holy Spirit" (Vol. 1 p. 59).

Compare: Matt 24:36 Jesus said, "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels in heaven, but my Father only." This, and Jesus did not come when she predicted.

When Jesus did not come in 1844 as Mrs. White believed, she than said that "the 1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord and that it should not be altered, that the figures were as He wanted them, that his hand was over and hid a mistake in some of the figures so that none could see it, until His hand was removed" (Early Writings, p.74).

POST -1844 -- "LET’S TRY THIS AGAIN":

"Time is almost finished." (Early Writings, p. 64).

"Said the angel 'Deny self, ye must step fast.' Some of us have had the time to get the truth and to advance step by step...But now time is almost finished, and what we have been years learning they will have to learn in a few months." (Early Writings, p.67).

"Some are looking too far off for the coming of the Lord. Time has continued a few years longer than they expected therefore they think it may continue a few years more. And in this way their minds have been led from present truth...I saw the time for Jesus to be in the most holy place was nearly finished and that time can last but very little longer. The sealing time is very short and will soon be over." (Early Writings, p. 58)

JESUS IN 1844: "In 1844, attended by heavenly angels, our great High Priest entered the holy of holies, and there appears in the presence of God, to engage in the last acts of His ministration in behalf of man-to perform the work of investigative judgment, and to MAKE ATONEMENT for all who are shown to be entitled to its benefits." (Great Controversy, p. 546, 1927)

Note the past tense of:

Heb 9:26-28: "(Christ) put away sin, once, by the sacrifice of Himself" and "Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many".

Hebrews 10:10: "By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ ONCE FOR ALL."

Hebrews 10:14: "For by ONE offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified."

NO SIN BLOTTED OUT UNTIL 1844: "at the close of the 2300 days, in 1844, BEGAN the work of investigation AND THE BLOTTING OUT OF SINS" (Great Controversy, p.552).

MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY: "It is those who by faith follow Jesus in the great work of atonement, who receive the benefits of His mediation in their behalf, while those who REJECT THE LIGHT (as given by EGW) which brings to view this work of ministration, are not benefited thereby." -- Great Controversy, p. 492

SABBATH: In TESTIMONIES, (Volume 8, p. 117), Mrs White says, "The seal of God is revealed in the observance of the Seventh Day Sabbath."

PORK IS OK: "They who labor with their hands must nourish their strength to perform this labor, and those also who labor in the Word and doctrine must nourish their strength. They should eat of nourishing and strengthening food to build up their strength... I saw that your [an SDA brother] views concerning swine's flesh would prove no injury to you if you have them to yourself; but in your judgment and opinion you have made this question a test. If God requires his people to abstain from swine’s flesh, He will convict them on the matter. If it is the duty of the church to abstain from swine's flesh God will discover it to more than two or three." --TESTIMONIES, Volume 1, pp. 206, 207

E G WHITE’S EXPLANATION OF WHY HER PROPHECY FAILED

"Thus the work was hindered, and the world was left in darkness. Had the whole Adventist body united upon the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, how widely different would have been our history." SELECTED MESSAGES, Book 1, p. 299

*ADVERSITY

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa

*AGNOSTICISM

CORDUAN: "Agnosticism is the view that we cannot know if there is a God or not. The term was coined by TH Huxley, the celebrated defender of Darwin's theories. Huxley referred to an ancient belief system called 'gnosticism,' from the Greek word 'gnosis,' which means 'knowledge.' Its adherents prided themselves on their great spiritual knowledge. Huxley added the negative prefix 'a' making 'agnosticism.' He intended thereby to show that he did not know." (Winfried Corduan, No Doubt About It, Broadman & Holman, 1997, p88)

SPURGEON: One walking with me observed with some emphasis, "I do not believe as you do. I am an agnostic."

"Oh," I said to him, "that is a Greek word, is it not? The Latin word, I think, is Ignoramus."

He did not like it at all. Yet I only translated his language from Greek to Latin. These are queer waters to get into, when all your philosophy brings you is the confession that you know nothing, and the stupidity which enables you to glory in your ignorance. -----C. H. Spurgeon, as quoted in Bible Illustrator for Windows, Version 1.0c, Parsons Technology, P.O. Box 100, Hiawatha, Iowa 52233-0100

*AIDS

"The first nationwide survey of HIV infection shows that between 300,000 and 1,000,000 Americans are HIV positive - considerably lower than previous government estimates. The Survey by the National Center for Health Statistics found that only 29 of 7,992 (0.36%) Americans sampled were HIV positive. In addition, statistics from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 90% of all full-blown AIDS cases are people who practiced intravenous drug use and/or homosexual behavior. (Lambda Report, Dec-Jan, 1993-94 Surveillance Report, 10/93, as quoted in American Family Association Journal, pg 4)

*APOSTASY

(Early beginnings)

IGNATIUS: "It is fitting, therefore, that in every way you glorify Jesus Christ who has glorified you. Be firmly joined together in unanimous obedience, obeying the overseer and the body of elders, and be made holy in all things. Your deserving body of elders, worthy of God, is attuned to the overseer as the strings are to a lyre!" (emph. added) (Letter to the Ephesians, before 120 AD; cited by (Eberhard Arnold, "The Early Christians," Plough Publishing, 1997, pg 212)

IGNATIUS: "Flee from divisions as the beginning of all evil! Follow the overseer, all of you, as Jesus Christ follows the Father, and follow the council of elders as you would follow the apostles." (emph. added) (Letter to the Smyrnaeans, before 120 AD; cited by Eberhard Arnold, "The Early Christians," Plough Publishing, 1997, pg 217-8)

 

*ARMAGEDDON

“Following the Second Battle of Adrianople in a.d. 378, Saint Ambrose, identifying the Goths with the hosts of Gog and Magog, declared that ‘the end of the world is upon us.’

Saint Jerome, hearing of the fall of Rome, also wrote of the end of the world, wondering, ‘Quid salvum est si Roma perit?’ (‘What is safe if Rome perishes?’) Indeed, so close was early Christianity's association with Rome that in the fourth century Lactantius Firmianus wrote: ‘The fall and ruin of the world will soon take place, but it seems that nothing is to be feared as long as the City of Rome stands intact.’ Later, Saint Augustine was moved to write The City of God to combat the fear that the fall of temporal Rome was to be equated with the opening battles that would culminate in Armageddon. He portrayed the events of Revelation as strictly allegorical.” (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“The masses of the People's Crusade, whipped to a frenzy by Peter the Hermit, believed that their assault on unbelievers was the first stage of Armageddon. They believed that the Antichrist-the cruel, god-hating false prophet of the Last Days, whose appearance would herald the end of the world-had already been born in Jerusalem and that they them­selves had been summoned there by God to precipitate the final battle and triumph. European literature and dra­ma mirrored these beliefs. In Germany, for example, a particular favorite around 1160 was the Play of Antichrist, in which the process and terrors of Armageddon were luridly depicted.” (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“In the thirteenth century the Mon­gols swept out of Central Asia. … The Domini­can Ricoldo of Monte Croce reported the name Mongol to be derived from Magogli, the followers of Magog. (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“Every new ruler was seen by his subjects as potentially either that Last Emperor to preside over the final Gold­en Age or, if of a despotic nature, the Antichrist. When such a leader died without fulfilling the prophecies, he was immediately demoted to the role of ‘precursor,’ and the watch began again. In Italy expectations reached hysterical proportions. Even such a lit­tle-known event as the Battle of Montaperto in 1260 was invested with the trappings of Armageddon. Chroniclers in Siena and elsewhere declared, ‘This is the end of the world.’" (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“Again, as the [13th] century's end approached, expectations grew. A professional class of speculatores (scouts) watched for portents of the Last Times, and the people of western Europe awaited Ar­mageddon with dread and hope for the reign of Christ and a new age.” (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“In the sixteenth century, Armaged­don had its last gasp of popularity for nearly 400 years in a veritable orgy of anticipation. To some, the imminence of the final battle was seen in the cap­ture of Belgrade by Suleyman the Mag­nificent in 1521. To the west, the bloodthirsty millenarian Thomas Munzer predicted Turkish conquest of the world, followed by a slaughter of the godless by the elect in preparation for the Second Coming. The basis for his predictions was Revelation. In 1533 Melchior Hofmann and the Anabaptists equated the Turks with Gog and Magog and imminent apocalypse. They set up Munster as the New Jerusalem for the post-Armageddon world-and perished there in a bloody cataclysm of their own making. Antichrists were seen in every secular conflict. Popes in general were easy targets. While Gregory VII accused Frederick II of being a forerun­ner of the Antichrist, Frederick coun-terattacked by calling Gregory the gen­uine article. Theologians such as Ber­nard of Clairvaux declared that ‘the Beast of the Apocalypse’ had ‘seized the Throne of Peter.’” (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Tudor and Stuart England grasped at the idea of the Antichrist. Edward VI justified his invasion of Scotland in 1548 in part as a blow against the Antichrist. In the second half of the century, Sir Francis Drake proposed resistance to Spain as a stand against the same.” (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“John Napier, writing in Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1594), predicted Armageddon within the next fifty to sixty years, with Judgment Day scheduled for either 1688 or 1700. In Sermons Upon the Whole Book of Rev­elation (1599), George Giffard urged the second earl of Essex, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, to garb himself in white linen, mount a white horse, and take the field against the Beast (the king of Spain). In the next century, convinced that the pope was the Anti­christ, Isaac Newton spent much time calculating the timetable of the apoca­lypse. Of course, England, too, was subject to accusation: In 1586, Ralph Durden identified the kingdom of En­gland as the Beast of Revelation and predicted its downfall in 1589.” (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“With the outbreak of the English Civil War, both Roundheads and Cava­liers perceived the Antichrist in one another. Contemporary views of the battles of Naseby and Edgehill saw them as part of the geography of Arma­geddon. The son of the earl of Essex came in for his own share of the mil­lennial expectations. When, in 1642, he took up arms against King Charles I, some saw him as John the Baptist and expected Christ to follow shortly. Ed­ward Haughton wrote in The Rise, Growth, and Fall of Antichrist (1652) that the civil war was ‘part of the battle you read of in the sixteenth and nine­teenth chapter of the Revelations.’ Ad­ditional pamphlets, such as John Tillinghast's Generation-Work in 1654 and R. Hayter's A Meaning of the Reve­lation in 1676, also saw Revelation as the pattern for recent events. In 1647 William Sedgwick predicted that the world would end fourteen days hence. He lived another fifteen years, known as ‘Doomsday’ Sedgwick.” (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“The French Rev­olution was perceived by many to usher in the Last Times. The overthrow of the Papal States in 1798 and Napoleon's Egyptian campaign led to predictions of the destruction of the Turks and the return of Jesus. Pamphlets like Joseph Priestley's The Present State of Europe Compared with Ancient Prophecies in 1794 and the anonymous Antichrist in the French Convention in 1795 welded temporal events to biblical prophecy. …Early in the following century, Napoleon was often identified as the Antichrist.” (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“On June 30, 1908, a titanic explosion in Siberia, apparently caused by a comet, uprooted and charred trees for twenty-five miles, lit the skies as far away as London, and sent shock waves clear around the world. This great ex­plosion was seen in the midst of wide­spread Russian unrest as a portent of the world's approaching end. In his War, Progress and the End of History (1900), the theologian Vladimir Solovyov predicted that Armageddon would begin with a war between Russia and Japan-which Japan would win. …The sense of pessimism was not unique to Russia; in August 1914 the British secretary of state for foreign affairs, Sir Edward Grey, observed to a friend, ‘The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.’ (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“Winston Churchill echoed his senti­ments. In a discussion with Henry L. Stimson, he said: ‘Stimson, what was gunpowder? Trivial. What was electric­ity? Meaningless. This atomic bomb is the Second Coming in wrath!’” (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“Ronald Reagan, in a 1987 interview, said, ‘I turn back to your ancient prophets in the Old Testament and the signs fore­telling Armageddon, and I find myself wondering if-if we're the generation that's going to see that come about. . . . There have been times in the past when we thought the world was coming to an end, but never any­thing like this.’” (Ira Meistrich, The View Toward Armageddon Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

*ATHEISM, HOPE OF

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed Him. How shall we, the murderers of all murderers, comfort ourselves?" (cited by Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 62).

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. --Voltaire

LARRY CRABB: "If we had never sinned, we would live with a wonderful realization of our part in God's world rather than a desperate desire to find meaning." (Larry Crabb, Inside Out, pg 69.)

BIBLE: Eccl 1:1-2 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher, "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity."

BIBLE: Eccl 6:3-5 If a man fathers a hundred {children} and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things, and he does not even have a {proper} burial, {then} I say, "Better the miscarriage than he, for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity. It never sees the sun and it never knows {anything;} it is better off than he.

George Bernard Shaw: "I am ready to admit after contemplating the world and human nature for sixty years that I see no way out of the world's misery but by the way which would be found by Christ's will." (as quoted in Introduction, University Edition of the Bible, International Bible Society, POB 62970, Colorado Springs, CO 80962)

Jean Paul Sartre: "If God does not exist...man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon, either within or outside himself." (as quoted in Introduction, University Edition of the Bible, International Bible Society, POB 62970, Colorado Springs, CO 80962)

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, just before he died in 1950: "The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt. Its counsels, which should have established the millennium, have led directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them once. In their name I helped to destroy the faith of millions. And now they look at me and witness the great tragedy of an atheist who has lost his faith." (as quoted in Bible Illustrator for Windows, Version 1.0c, Parsons Technology, P.O. Box 100, Hiawatha, Iowa 52233-0100)

BERTRAND RUSSELL: "Only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair can the soul's habitation be safely built."

BERTRAND RUSSELL: "Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for man, condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow fall, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day; disdaining the coward terrors of the slave of Fate, to worship at the shrine that his own hands have built; undismayed by the empire of chance, to preserve a mind free from the wanton tyranny that rules his outward life; proudly defiant of the irresistible forces that tolerate, for a moment, his knowledge and his condemnation, to sustain alone, a weary but unyielding Atlas, the world that his own ideals have fashioned despite the trampling march of unconscious power." -- Bertrand Russell, "A Free Man's Worship" in "Why I Am Not A Christian"

VOLTAIRE: "I am abandoned by God and man: I shall go to hell!" (Knight's Master Book of New Illustrations, p. 158)

ACKERMAN: "But can we KNOW anything about the good? Sure, all of us have beliefs; but isn't it merely pretentious to proclaim one's KNOWLEDGE on this subject? Worse than pretentious -- isn't some loud fool typically the first to impose his self-righteous certainties on others? Rather than welcoming such certainties, they should be taken as a sign that your intellectual arteries are hardening, that you are beginning to mistake your own personal musings for the unheard music of the spheres. The hard truth is this: There is no moral meaning hidden in the bowels of the universe. All there is is you and I struggling in a world that neither we, nor any other thing, created.

"Yet there is no need to be overwhelmed by the void. We may create our own meanings, you and I; however transient or superficial, these are the only meanings we will ever know. And the first meaningful reality we must create -- one presupposed by all other acts of meaningful communication -- is the idea that you and I are persons capable of giving meanings to the world."

-- Bruce A. Ackerman, "Social Justice in the Liberal State," 1980, p. 368

ATHEISM, MILITANT

WILLIAM MURRAY (son of Madaly Murray O'Hair): "I was not yet willing to believe, though, that all atheists were like Mother [totally unscrupulous]. Perhaps to prove this to myself, I decided to give the nonbelievers of the world one last chance. From personal correspondence I had the names and addresses of about 400 of my mother's 1200 members. I wrote to them asking for support of positive rather than negative atheism. I suggested we use funds to establish atheist chairs at universities rather than to sue to have religious chairs removed. I recommmended the construction of monuments and hospital wings.

A handful of people sent contributions out of habit. But the overwhelming majority of those who answered my letter pelted me with such abuse that I was stunned. Over and over I read that the principal goal of atheism was the destruction of religion and that this was no time to build." ("My Life Without God," Harvest House Publ, Eugene, OR, 97402, p.279-280)

*ATHEISM, ARGUMENTS AGAINST

CORDUAN: "The atheist is after an obligatory moral code without anything that makes it obligatory. To have commandments, they must be commanded in some way, but the atheist's system does not allow for such a possibility.

Of course atheists, like all human beings, live according to certain fixed values, but then they are plying their existence on the basis of borrowed capital -- borrowed from the theist whose system can spawn such values. For the atheist any affirmation of objective values can be no more than an irrational escape. Francis Schaeffer [The God Who is There, Intervarsity Press, p61] described the atheist's problem in the following way. On the level of rational thought, atheists are stuck with the inescapable conclusions of their philosophy. These conclusions can only lead to meaninglessness, and, consequently, despair. Thus they escape their predicament by an irrational leap into asserting values to which they are not entitled. ...In short, the atheist as a human being is compelled to live by truth, meaning, and values. Yet the worldview of atheism cannot provide compelling truth, meaning, or values; atheists can have these things only from outside of the [atheistic] worldview. Thus atheism is intrinsically enviable. It cannot be lived out." (Winfried Corduan, No Doubt About It, Broadman & Holman, 1997, p87-88)

*ATHEISM, GENERAL

WILLIAM J. MURRAY (Son of Madalyn Murray O'Hair): "But something began to happen which convinced Mother to march forward. It was more than the attention she was receiving from the media. It was MONEY. The story of my mother's fight against God and country had been reported all over America. The mail at 1526 Winford Road had increased tenfold. Every misfit in America was sending my mother letters of praise with a check enclosed. The phone rang constantly. The whole thing was too gratifying for Mother to give up." ("My Life Without God," Harvest House Publ, Eugene, OR, 97402, p.75)

WILLIAM J. MURRAY (Son of Madalyn Murray O'Hair): "She [Madalyn] was convinced that the worse the situation sounded to her [atheist newsletter] readers, the more money they were likely to send. Consequently, according to her, I was beaten severely at least twice a month [by Christians - ed.] and suffered several nervous breakdowns. She probably was right about what motivates people to give: After mailing out the first newsletter, the contributions came in even faster." ("My Life Without God," Harvest House Publ, Eugene, OR, 97402, p.90)

WILLIAM J. MURRAY (Son of Madalyn Murray O'Hair): "Mother had decided that Grandfather [her own father - ed.] was the root of all the problems of the family and that without him there would be peace and harmony in a home under her unquestioned rule. To this end she instructed me to murder my grandfather. '...If you love me, you'll do it,' she whispered to me." ("My Life Without God," Harvest House Publ, Eugene, OR, 97402, p.80)

WILLIAM J. MURRAY (Son of Madalyn Murray O'Hair) related how his mother hated and argued with her father daily. She wished him dead one morning to his face, and he died that day. Her mother met her at the door.

"You wished your father dead this morning and dead he is. He had a heart attack at the A&P."

"Well, I'll be. Where's the stiff? ...Bill, call up some undertakers and find the cheapest one. Then have them pick up the stiff from Memorial." ("My Life Without God," Harvest House Publ, Eugene, OR, 97402, p.98)

GRANT JEFFREY: "It is fascinating to note that the Bible records only one statement made by God to the atheist or agnostic who declares, 'There is no God.' This sole declaration and verdict of God in response to those who deny His existence is, 'The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.' (Ps 14.1) When I attended school I used to engage in debates with atheists and agnostics about the existence of God. However, as I began to analyze the underlying attitude of those I debated I began to realize that debates of this kind were futile. Now when I get into a discussion with an atheist or agnostic I simply respond as follows: "I will not debate you about whether or not God exists for the same reason that I would not debate someone about whether or not the world was round. I believe that those who claim 'There is no God,' in the face of overwhelming evidence of design found throughout nature, are either fools or liars...in either case it is clearly aa waste of time to argue the obvious." (Grant R Jeffrey, "The Signature of God," p16, Frontier Research Publications, 1996)

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. --Goncourt

Robert Ingersoll: "In 25 years the Bible will be a forgotten book." (Ingersoll died in 1899). (as quoted in Introduction, University Edition of the Bible, International Bible Society, POB 62970, Colorado Springs, CO 80962)

One man said of atheists, "You can't find one virgin or three wise men among them." --Anon.

"Nietzsche said 'God is dead.' God says Neitzsche is dead."

STEPHEN HAND: "Atheists beg the question of being. They yawn at the marvel of existence, that anything exists at all, a grain of sand, all the little hearts that appear to come into existence out of nothingness--defying nothingness--beating, beating. They suppress every doubt and, should it kick up, they run back, after the panic, to their Portable Nietzche in the same way the Stalinist ran back to the writings of Lenin if atrocity began to pang conscience or stir up that bourgois feeling for humanity" (The Faith of Christ in and Age of Unbelief. 1994 Lowell, MA)

ACKERMAN: "But can we KNOW anything about the good? Sure, all of us have beliefs; but isn't it merely pretentious to proclaim one's KNOWLEDGE on this subject? Worse than pretentious -- isn't some loud fool typically the first to impose his self-righteous certainties on others? Rather than welcoming such certainties, they should be taken as a sign that your intellectual arteries are hardening, that you are beginning to mistake your own personal musings for the unheard music of the spheres. The hard truth is this: There is no moral meaning hidden in the bowels of the universe. All there is is you and I struggling in a world that neither we, nor any other thing, created.

"Yet there is no need to be overwhelmed by the void. We may create our own meanings, you and I; however transient or superficial, these are the only meanings we will ever know. And the first meaningful reality we must create -- one presupposed by all other acts of meaningful communication -- is the idea that you and I are persons capable of giving meanings to the world."

-- Bruce A. Ackerman, "Social Justice in the Liberal State," 1980, p. 368

JOHN W. WHITEHEAD: "The concept of man's naturally religious orientation is looked upon with some scorn by the secularist who thinks himself beyond such superstition. But this disdain is inappropriate. The person who calls himself a secularist, or even an atheist, may suppose that the secular label affords him an air of objectivity and impartiality. We must note, however, that even an atheist must exercise "faith" in order to assert that there is no God. If we cannot prove that God is there, no one can prove that He isn't. It

is amusing that well-known atheists such as Madalyn Murray O'Hair travel back and forth across America

proclaiming that there is no God. She expends a great deal of effort in fighting something that supposedly doesn't exist. This, too, is an act of 'faith'." (The Second American Revolution, pg. 86, JW Whitehead, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co.)

PAUL BRIANS: "Common sense tells us that atheism is a much more rational stand in the face of the conflicting claims of the world's religions than fleeing to the Bible." (Atheist Paul Brians, WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY)

(Editor's Comment: The fact there are so many religions shows at best that human beings have a weakness for a variety of irrational beliefs,with atheism at the head of the list).

WILLIAM MURRAY (son of militant atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair): "I was raised in an atheistic, Marxist home with no father and a mother who felt rejected by all society [she was rejected by the USSR for citizenship and entry] and took out that rejection on her family. As a result, there was violence in our home." (Dallas Times Herald article, Tacoma [WA] News Tribune, Nov. 6, 1982)

WILLIAM MURRAY (son of militant atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair): "I literally looked for God in innumerable volumes. . .[Murray read for three years on all religions -Ed.] I had read everything except one book. . .and that was the Bible. I had never had one in my home. I turned to the Bible and I read the Gospel and I found the solution." (Dallas Times Herald article, Tacoma [WA] News Tribune, Nov. 6, 1982)

WILLIAM MURRAY (son of militant atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair): "The negative nature of atheism itself is enough to drive someone away from it." (Dallas Times Herald article, Tacoma [WA] News Tribune, Nov. 6, 1982)

"God is not dead - merely unemployed." ("Pogo," a newspaper comic strip)

*ATHEISM, MORALITY OF

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE HARRY BLACKMUN: "We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins." (Roe v Wade, 1973; cited by Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 89) [By this logic we can say a five year old is not alive yet].

GEISLER & TUREK: "Despite his militant atheism, Neitzsche also realized that a world without a belief in God and moral absolutes would lead to unprecendented bloodshed. Neitzsche died in 1900, but before his death he predicted that the twentieth century would be the most murderous in human history. His insights were prophetic. For when man killed belief in God in the 1800s, he also killed moral restraint in the 1900s." (Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 62-63).

(Specifically, 62 million civilians, 43 million soldiers, slaughtered in 20th century wars caused by Darwinian-believing governments who also slaughter their own people en masse. This does not include abortion casualties! ----Figures by L.M. Boyd, "Trivia," a national newspaper column, Morning New Tribune, Tacoma, WA, 8-14-99)

LIONEL DAHMER: "Jeff blamed it on his early years of atheism and Darwin. He said, 'If there is no God, why can't I make my own rules, do what I want?" (Lionel Dahmer, father of cannibal/necrophiliac/serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, in an A&E interview broadcast of 4-16-99) (In this same broadcast, Dahmer said the same thing himself, and accorded religion as an early impediment to his compulsions. Once he abandoned religion, he went literally out of control).

BERTRAND RUSSELL: "We are ourselves the ultimate and irrefutable arbiters of value, and in the world of value nature is only a part. Thus in this world we are greater than nature. In the world of values, nature in itself is neutral, neither good nor bad, deserving of neither admiration nor censure. It is we who create values and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings, and we debase our kingship if we bow down to nature. It is for us to determine the good life, not for nature -- not even for nature personified as God." -- Bertrand Russell, "What I Believe" in "Why I Am Not A Christian," 1957

*ATHEISM; POLITICALLY ACTIVE

"It is a common view that theism, and its opposite atheism also, are concerned with philosophical questions, personal discipline and social conduct have little to do with political and economic affairs. That was the case in primitive times when political and economic systems had not developed significantly and religious faith dominated the life of the people. In the modern age, things have changed considerably. Emphasis has shifted to economic and political affairs. The old view is outmoded. To be a real way of life, atheism should concern itself with all aspects of life and especially with economic and political systems because political authority and state law control and regulate social relations more than religious faith does in the modern age. From care of children and mode of education to family planning and rate of immigration, from irrigation facilities and land distribution to food rationing and property rights, state law rules in the modern age. Therefore we atheists wanted to bring political and economic affairs into the purview of atheism." (Gora, "We Become Atheists," 1975, Chapter VIII)

*ASTROLOGY, EARLY CHRISTIAN STATEMENTS

170 AD Tatian the Syrian: "[Under the influence of demons] men form the material of their apostasy. For, having shown them a plan of the position of the stars, like dice-players, they introduce Fate, a flagrant injustice. For the judge and the judged are made so by Fate, the murderers and the murdered, the wealthy and the needy--[all are] the offspring of the same Fate" (Address to the Greeks 8)

170 AD Tatian the Syrian: "Such are the demons; these are they who laid down the doctrine of Fate. Their fundamental principle was the placing of animals in the heavens [as constellations] . . . these they dignified with celestial honor, in order that they might themselves be thought to remain in heaven and, by placing the constellations there, might make to appear rational the irrational course of life on earth. Thus the high-spirited and he who is crushed with toil, the temperate and the intemperate, the indigent and the wealthy, are what they are simply from the controllers of their nativity. For the delineation of the zodiacal circle is the work of the 'gods' . . . . But we are superior to Fate, and instead of wandering demons, we have learned to know one Lord, who wanders not" (Address to the Greeks 9).

211 AD TERTULLIAN: "We observe among the arts also some professions liable to the charge of idolatry. Of astrologers, there should be no speaking even; but since one in these days has challenged us, defending on his own behalf perseverance in that profession, I will use a few words. I allege not that he honors idols, whose names he has inscribed on the heaven, to whom he has attributed all God's power. . . . One proposition I lay down: that those angels, the deserters of God [demons] . . . were likewise the discoverers of this curious art [astrology], on that account also condemned by God" (Idolatry 9).

221 AD The Recognitions of Clement: "Therefore the astrologers, being ignorant of such mysteries, think that these things [the disasters brought about by when demons inspire human sin] happen by the courses of the heavenly bodies; hence also, in their answers to those who go to them and consult them as to future things, they are deceived in very many instances. Nor is it to be wondered at, for they are not prophets; but, by long practice, the authors of errors find a sort of refuge in those things by which they were deceived, and introduce certain 'climacteric periods,' that they may pretend a knowledge of uncertain things. For they represent these 'climacterics' as times of danger, in which one sometimes is destroyed, sometimes is not destroyed, not knowing that it is not the course of the stars but the operation of demons that regulates these things; and those demons, being anxious to confirm the error of astrology, deceive men to sin by mathematical calculations, so that when they suffer the punishment of sin, either by the permission of God or by legal sentence, the astrologer may seem to have spoken the truth" (Recognitions of Clement 9:12).

 

*AUTHORITY, BIBLICAL

MARTIN LUTHER: "Since we are all priests and all have one faith, one gospel, and one sacrament, why then should we not have the authority to test and determine what is right in the faith? Abraham had to listen to Sarah who was more subject than we are to anyone on earth, and Balaam's ass was wiser than the prophet himself. If then God could speak through an ass against a prophet, then can he not speak through a godly man against the pope?...Therefore it behooves every Christian to espouse the cause of the faith, to understand and defend it, and to rebuke all errors." (The Second American Revolution, pg. 202, JW Whitehead, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co.

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