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God is waiting for us . . . to act!

Even as the extermination camps stole our people

and brought forth their death, we were as helpless sheep

without a shepherd. Are we still helpless? 

We stand and we recite our prayers and give our opinions

on the crisis of today, but there must be more . . .


Rabbi Shlomo Riskin writes in his article,

"God is Waiting For Us"

"And finally, God seems to be expressing a sharp correction - even rebuke - to Moses. The Israelites wail (in prayer) to God and in complaint to Moses for having taken them out of Egypt only to die at the hands of the pursuing Egyptians (14:10, 11). Moses comforts them, telling them to remain standing where they are (hityatzvu) and they shall see a miraculous salvation (14:13). "The Lord will do battle for you and you remain silent" (14:14). In the very next verse, God seems to be chiding Moses, "And the Lord said to Moses, 'Why are you crying out [in prayer] to Me? Speak to the children of Israel and let them begin to move [into the sea].' They dare not merely stand silently and wait for Me. They must act first!" (14:15 - see Rashi, ad loc)."

Are we bringing God's Vision to our world?

Are we acting to bring about freedom, justice and truth?


There is a new holocaust blazing in the world

and are we sitting idly by as a whole group of people

are brought to their death?


It's not propaganda

It's not rumors

It's not lies


One out of every three lives is exterminated 

in the United States of those who have been 

lovingly formed in the womb of an American woman


Why are they killing their own and why is it any business

of the nation of Israel to interfere with this holocaust?


During the holocaust against the Jews, 

our own flesh and blood, abortion was made legal

and promoted for Jews only

The Germans were not allowed, by law, to abort their own

We were tricked into exterminating our own people


"The Abortion and Eugenics Policies of Nazi Germany":

“We now turn to Nazi abortion policy. As we have seen, there had been agitation throughout the Weimar period to liberalize/legalize abortion. This resulted in a compromise: Liberalization. Abortion remained illegal but was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor, making the punishment essentially a fine and not a prison sentence.


Hence, in 1933, in their first year of power, the Nazis passed a law forbidding abortion to Germans, increasing the penalties as they had been before Weimar liberalization.(24) The Nazis wanted to increase the birthrate so as to have soldiers for their military. In March 1934, however, the Hereditary Health Court in Hamburg rendered a judgment which stated that abortion on grounds of racial health was not an offense. In its decision, it referred to a Supreme Court decision during the Weimar democracy seven years earlier, allowing the procedure for "medical necessities."(25) In June 1935 the sterilization law was also amended to allow abortions on eugenic grounds and these abortions had to be followed by sterilizations, dependent -- technically -- on the woman's consent.(26) Thus, sterilization, eugenics and abortion all come together.


For the first time in German history, abortion was legal. But one cannot ignore the roots reaching back almost fifteen years to the beginning of the Weimar democracy, during which time arguments had been made that unborn life was not that important so was therefore expendable. Despite the racial theories behind this decision there were some non-Nazis who approved because of the allowing of choice.(27) In 1938 the government announced that Jews could have abortions at any time, since this could only benefit the German people.(28) The Jews, as well as "unfit" Germans, had a "choice" most Germans did not. This meant that the Nazis saw abortion as a very useful weapon against undesirables; e.g. as an act of elimination.


During World War II the Nazis used sterilizations and abortions (also birth control and even the promotion of homosexuality) extensively in eastern Europe to carry out their eugenics policies. The specific aim was to keep eastern females available for slave labor while at the same time weakening eastern nations by hampering the reproduction of Slavic peoples.(29) Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, a chief architect of the Holocaust, and personal friend of Adolf Hitler, once stated that the tragedy of abortion for German women was that afterwards women often could not have children. Not in the loss of an "individual life," as he put it.(30) The Nazis used the word "parent" to describe pregnant women and the fathers of the unborn(31) and the word "child" to describe the unborn themselves.(32) Nazis forbade abortion in order to preserve German unborn but allowed, even encouraged, the destruction of non-German unborn.(33)”


The United States stands ignorant, as well

We may not be our brother's keeper, 

for we have many problems on our own soil,

but how can we not act when the God of the Heavens

calls us to be His Image, His Voice,

His Sovereign and Loving Hand in this world?


As the United States kills their own

as they sink into moral decay

as they raise up questionable leaders of deceit

do we sit idly by and laud their blasphemy of freedom

or do we speak and write to call attention

to the holocaust against a group of innocent people?


The United States may not be able to save their nation

from the Justice of God's Hand due to their murder

but have we not learned from past example

that if we do not speak up for the innocent

we are also guilty of their extermination?


The United States will continue their grievous route

to extinction, as we look on

They will continue to raise up government as the answer

to their people's problems

They will consume their people's time with work and pleasure

They will exploit their sensuality and dispose of those who

are caught in the web of their wombs

They will use up the military forces through immoral

and unjust decisions.  Even now, there are more suicides

than death from the enemy (January 2009)

They will back down when we need them most

They will harbor terrorists and grant them government jobs

They will cause the God of the Heavens to bring forth

Justice through foreigners

and yet, before their extermination

before the death scene is final

Will we, a nation, who believes in God

and knows the value of life

now stand and speak the Heart the God

which calls for life to be granted to the children?


Don't let this holocaust leave your thoughts

until you have prayed before the Father

and been given Commissioning to stand and act

to save the lives of the innocent


Don't let this holocaust be upon your hands

and the blood of the children upon your children


STAND AND ACT NOW!

God is Waiting for Us to ACT

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

 
 

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