This past week we posted on our social media accounts a story about comedian Sarah Silverman, who was quoted at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser saying, "Pro-Life Laws Make Me Want To Eat An Aborted Fetus." The original story is here.
The comments we received from the post reflected the disgust, shame and embarrassment of our followers that a Jewish woman would utter remarks so gut wrenchingly disrespectful and outrageous. Indeed, Ms, Silverman's words had shock value sufficient to garner donations for the event, but nary a concern from Hulu, who has renewed her show I love you, America for a second season.
How is it possible that an unborn child killed in an abortion is reduced to a possible entree selection to elicit donations at an abortion industry fundraiser?
It's possible when human life is considered one dimensional, merely an accidental coincidental group of cells with no inherent value or worth. It's possible when human life has no use save that which is given it through arbitrary circumstances. It's possible when human life is seen as disposable.
The slaughter of human beings in the 20th century resulted in part by this reductionist philosophy. Stripping humans of their humanity, their spiritual essence, their intrinsic value as God's creation, allowed mass starvation, torture, and extermination of millions of innocent people as a justifiable means to a desirable end. Ironically, supporters, co-conspirators, and advocates of these ideologies met their demise as power and control centralized.
Today, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler are still viewed by many as strong leaders, whose reprehensible and criminal actions were necessary for outcomes favorable for national pride and equality. The fundamental belief that human beings are individual creations of God, multi-dimensional, spiritual in nature, and intrinsically valuable further erodes as religious meaning continues to lose ground in our culture.
The abortion slaughter, driven by a profit driven industry and a self-possessed agnosticism, eclipses the atrocities of the past century. A glance at the
abortion clock breaks one's denial of the magnitude of the loss of life, made possible by dehumanizing each of these children by reducing each to an unwanted, disposable, inanimate and inhuman entity. Abortion advocates continue to resist any attempt to validate the unborn child's experience as a living human being, unaware that the price they themselves pay is the loss of their own future and their demise as whole human beings.
Sarah Silverman, beware!
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Eli Wiesel
