THOUGHTS FROM THE STATE DIRECTOR
THE SLIPPERY SLOPE GETS STEEPER
Many years ago I watched a video series by Francis
Schaeffer and former Surgeon General C. Everett
Koop in which they warned of a dangerous "slippery
slope" associated with abortion and euthanasia and
other medical bioethical issues. I remember thinking
that I didn't even know anyone who would advocate
the end of that slippery slope ... infanticide, eugenics,
coercive population control, the "duty to die" and many
other tragic results of starting down that slope. I could
not imagine that our country could ever espouse such
ideology, especially when many of us lived through the
stories of the atrocities of World War II. We saw first-
hand the results of Hitler's evil ideas of developing a
master race via the killing of millions of people he
deemed undesirable or unfit to remain in the human
gene pool. I was shocked by these men's warnings; it
wasn't as if I didn't believe them - human nature is
after all what it is - I just couldn't imagine the country I
loved being deceived by such evil philosophies. The
Americans I knew were truly compassionate toward
others; most of us understood that every human life
has intrinsic value from birth to natural death and
most Americans would defend that unalienable right
to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
An insidious internal take-over
Little did I know that a quiet revolution was going on
behind the scenes - an insidious permeation of every
institution; every purveyor of information and even our
churches, particularly the mainline denominations. I
didn't realize, nor did most of us, that this
silent "takeover" of the gatekeepers of ideas would
produce such a bitter harvest. Complacency, apathy,
and indifference to what the intelligentsia was
promoting were a catalyst to the burning fire that
swept over our country. The tongues of flame
shouted "A woman's right to choose"; "Death with
dignity"; "Every child a wanted child"; "The right to die"
and other high-sounding and appealing mantras that
drew Americans and have ultimately consumed our
society's ability to reason. The philosophies of
Malthus, Kinsey, Nietzsche, Sanger, Huxley, Marx, and
others lit the fires, and their pamphleteers, the media,
fanned the flames until our whole nation is beginning
to look like scorched earth instead of the land of the
brave and the free.
Ideas have consequences
Ideas do have consequences. The consequences of
a nation embracing these philosophies from hell are
staggering. Forty-five million children aborted;
skyrocketing sexually-transmitted diseases;
unbelievable atrocities committed against innocent
children by those fulfilling their own lusts; patients
being euthanized without their consent, and humans
being demoted to mere animals with no intrinsic value
unless they can contribute to society. We are hurtling
down the slope like a car that has lost its brakes while
going down a steep grade. Unlike the truck ramps
designed to slow a truck with failing brakes, we have
little recourse other than flying off into space and
crashing below and being consumed by the flames of
anarchy, self-interest and rebellion against
God.
The hope
Our only hope is to slow the inevitable descent into
oblivion. We must learn how to apply the brakes by
speaking out logically, reasonably and in love to our
friends and neighbors about these evil philosophies.
People are mesmerized by words; words designed to
appeal to our baser impulses ... selfishness and a
desire to be master of our own fate and captain of our
soul. It is no wonder that people have been deceived.
Americans are thinking with their emotions or not
thinking at all, and it is our job to sound the alarm. We
are watchmen on the wall; we have been called to
warn fellow Americans to apply the brakes before it is
too late to stop. Our GPS is the Bible; why are we
listening to the insidious whispers of an enemy that
seeks to destroy? We have the Truth, the Way and the
Life. Our path has been marked out for us before the
foundation of the earth; why are we listening to those
who would send us down the precipice of no return?
Wake up, American Christians, before it is too late!
In Him,
Judy Smith
State Director
Concerned Women for America of Kansas
P. O. Box 11233
Shawnee Mission, KS 66207
Phone/Fax: 913-491-1380
Email: director@kansas.cwfa.org
Web site: kansas.cwfa.org |