This video should come with a warning label for pro-aborts. “This video which shows thousands of young people on fire to end abortion may prove absolutely horrifying to you. It is reccomended that when watching this you have a change of undergarments ready.”
March 28, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Young people come on board because God's call to holiness is and will be addressed to them and everyone. Since the young are idealistic and energetic they respond with powers when they see the truth contrasted with the lie. Yet another sign that our God reigns.
March 28, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Ruh Roh Shaggy….
Yep, turns out my generation is tiny bit upset for being killed off. Who knew?
March 28, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Wow, this video just gave me goosebumps. Just amazing.
March 28, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Simply awesome…need more media productions like this so we can better reach and trump the pro death corner
March 28, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Sent this to my 40 Days for Life list.
March 28, 2011 at 8:48 pm
This generation is SOOO ready to end the mass destruction of life. And they are tired of being fed crap by bitter feminists.
As one of my own twenty-something kids has said to me, "mom, you guys really screwed things up" yeah. I may not have participated-but I let it happen.
So one of my biggest contributions is ten smart kids who are part of the , "I get it' generation.
Yay, pro-life youth.
March 28, 2011 at 9:05 pm
That was awesome! Thank you!
March 28, 2011 at 9:30 pm
"ONE THIRD of their generation has been wiped out by abortion…"
Sobering.
March 28, 2011 at 11:00 pm
These aren't student's for "life," these are students for the union of church and state.
Give me a pro-life movement based on non-religious principles that everyone in our nation can relate to, and I'll listen wholeheartedly. Give me one like this where protesters carry crosses, refer to themselves as "saviors," and view their actions as a divine calling, and I will hope to God that they don't get their way.
When religion and government mix, you get monarchy and the "divine right of kings." I don't want to go back to the days when people were decapitated for going against majority Christian beliefs. That's not right, and that's not what Christianity's God of mercy is about.
Keep religion out of government, and keep our people free!
March 29, 2011 at 12:39 am
Give me a pro-life movement based on non-religious principles that everyone in our nation can relate to, and I'll listen wholeheartedly.
No you won't. You'll find some other excuse to rationalize the murder of the unborn. Because if you think that the ultimate point of this whole thing is to establish some kind of theocracy, you're not the type of person to listen to any argument, no matter how rational.
Keep religion out of government, and keep our people free!
How does it feel to distill an entire political philosophy down to a bumper sticker slogan?
March 29, 2011 at 2:15 am
You mean the same kind of bumper sticker slogan as "ONE THIRD of their generation has been wiped out by abortion…"?
And by assuming that I won't listen and will instead "find some other excuse to rationalize the murder of the unborn," aren't you just perpetuating the kind of deadlock that has crippled Congress for the past however many years? I can honestly say that I don't know if there is any "right" or "just" truth about the practice of abortion. But I don't think it is wrong to ask people to come to the table with non-religious reasoning behind their policy decisions.
When government officials want to wage war, they can't justify it by simply saying, "My religious doctrine supports us going to war." Why should abortion be any different?
March 29, 2011 at 4:56 am
aren't you just perpetuating the kind of deadlock that has crippled Congress for the past however many years?
Yes, my dismissal of an anonymous internet commenter is the very symbol of Congressional deadlock. What incredible insight.
But I don't think it is wrong to ask people to come to the table with non-religious reasoning behind their policy decisions.
If you're not just blowing smoke about being "open minded" (doubtful), I find it hard to believe that you have not encountered non-religious objections to abortion. Opposition to abortion is rooted in the fact that the unborn child is living being deserving of legal protection. One need not be religious at all to value the life of the unborn – see Nat Hentoff as a prime example of an atheist (I believe) who opposes abortion, and he's certainly not the only one.
When government officials want to wage war, they can't justify it by simply saying, "My religious doctrine supports us going to war." Why should abortion be any different?
Again, this is the lazy argument trotted about by pro-aborts, and the kind of thing that forces me to doubt your sincerity as an open-minded person. Even if I were not a Catholic I would like to think that I would stand up for the most innocent among us, namely the unborn child. Or are you saying that valuing human life is a trait only among the religious?
But the fact of the matter is you're not interested in hearing different points of view. You're another anonymous internet troll that wants to steer the debate in another direction. You can't defend abortion, so you have to trot out some tired meme about separation of Church and State. It's quite lame.
March 29, 2011 at 5:24 am
Yeah, it's a little bit of a wake-up call for young people when they realize their life hinged on whether or not their mother decided they were human.
Being a hair's breadth away from death tends to correct one's perspective.
The sooner abortion ends, the better we will all be.
But I don't think it is wrong to ask people to come to the table with non-religious reasoning behind their policy decisions.
Everyone deserves life, which is mentioned in the Constitution as an unalienable right. The FIRST unalienable right, I might add.
It's wrong to kill an unborn child simply because the child is "unwanted", unplanned, etc. It's wrong to kill off millions of future citizens to benefit the irresponsibility of present-day citizens.
Abortion has no place in a culture that wants to continue. Period. It's not a religious argument, it's for the common good of the culture.
March 29, 2011 at 6:47 am
"Abortion has no place in a culture that wants to continue. Period. It's not a religious argument, it's for the common good of the culture."
…Abortion has been around for longer than the Ancient Greeks, who used to induce it by ingesting a plant. They used it so often that historians assume it went extinct.
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If I were a troll, I would post things like, "PrO lIfErS sUcK!" Again, why assume that just because I believe in things like separation of church and state, and because I challenge the opinions this site asserts, I am a troll?
"Yes, my dismissal of an anonymous internet commenter is the very symbol of Congressional deadlock. What incredible insight."
Isn't it? The whole reason why the U.S. is so polarized right now is because people won't talk civilly, don't you think?
I don't think that most people actually contemplating abortion takes it lightly. When you think about the costs that giving birth incur (around $10,000), and the fact that countless women, especially those who might be between jobs, don't have health insurance to pay for it, how can you say that there is absolutely no reasoning behind abortion? There is a reason, it just might not be one you (or I, depending on the situation) agree with, likely because we aren't facing that choice.
No one MAKES women choose abortion (unless you're in an abusive relationship, etc., where your partner threatens you if you don't)… They choose it of their own will. Just like the government can't forcibly sterilize women/men and take away the choice of procreation from them, I don't think it's the right of the government to take away the choice NOT to have children. I especially don't think it's the government's business to get involved in abortion when it's practiced in a wide variety of societies, across the centuries. Why are people so convinced now that they're so right, they have to impose their beliefs on others? Just leave it to the people involved!
P.S. Thanks for the tip on Nat Hentoff. I'll look him up.
March 29, 2011 at 7:14 am
AMERICA!
March 29, 2011 at 9:03 am
Anoynmous 1:47…just a few word changes and here is your argument presented in a different way, showing your logic.
"No one MAKES people choose to go to hell… They choose it of their own will. Just like Satan can't forcibly command people to go to hell and take away the choice of eternal life with Christ from them, I don't think it's the right of God to take away the choice NOT to enjoy the beatific vision. I especially don't think it's God's business to get involved in the decision to commit mortal sin when it's practiced in a wide variety of societies, across the centuries. Why are people so convinced now that they're so right, they have to impose their beliefs on others? Just leave it to the people involved!
March 29, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Dear Anonymous,
The state or government exists to protect its citizens. As you are well aware, laws are what protect citizens. And laws ARE based on morals, even if you have never thought of it that way. That oft-repeated statement used by pro-abortion people that says 'you can't legislate morality' is not correct. Actually, that's precisely what many laws do. They keep the individual's freedoms in check for the common good or the good of another individual. I know it's a different way of seeing the world that you seem to be accustomed to doing. But it's true.
Regarding pro-life "arguments" that don't use "religion," please take a moment to look at these logic-based 1-2 min. videos: http://liveaction.org/pro-life-answers-videos-by-live-action
These demonstrate that one has a great many reasons to be pro-life. Being religious or believing in God is only one of them.
Best to you.
March 29, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Dear Anonymous,
I forgot to say that the very first video mentioned in my above post is about your argument "just leave it to the people involved." http://liveaction.org/pro-life-answers-videos-by-live-action
If we were talking about slavery, for example, instead of abortion and you were to say, "just leave it to the people involved" it would be absurd. The slaves needed other people to protest that slavery had to end. Same with abortion. The children need advocates to protest that abortion must end. People must always speak out when innocent human life (at any stage or social standing) is in harm's way. It unjust to do otherwise, including remaining silent.
March 29, 2011 at 1:26 pm
Isn't it? The whole reason why the U.S. is so polarized right now is because people won't talk civilly, don't you think?
No. We live in this fictitious world where America is more divided than it has ever been, and it's because of meanies who speak their mind. Look up the Adams-Jefferson election of 1800 and tell me we live in more virulent times.
When you think about the costs that giving birth incur (around $10,000), and the fact that countless women, especially those who might be between jobs, don't have health insurance to pay for it, how can you say that there is absolutely no reasoning behind abortion?
This plays to the myth that most women have abortion because of financial reasons. This is not entirely accurate. Most women who seek abortions have adequate enough health insurance to cover the cost of birth – they obviously have adequate enough health insurance to cover the cost of an abortion. Even if financial hardship is a concern (and practically every person who brings forth a child into this world can claim some kind of financial hit because of a child – believe me I know), it certainly doesn't justify killing the child.
The other commenters have adequately addressed your other points.
March 29, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Anonymous,
Check out Feminists for life, http://www.feministsforlife.org/, for a non religious pro life stance.