The Great Outdoors & Abortion
Japan is a pristine country. There are few areas that you can go and find litter rolling about. This is a country extremely conscious of the environment, taking care of it, conserving natural resources, eliminating pollution, etc...And good for Japan. God has commanded that we care for the world He's entrusted us to be stewards of.
Have you ever noticed though, how the Bible is always right? Romans gives clear statements that pagan lands will rob God of His revealed glory in order to pin that glory to the creation and worship it instead.
In this land, Japan, you can find people deeply aged, not contemplating eternity, their soul, their life, or their beliefs, but working endlessly on pruning a garden, or stooped by the roadside picking out every minuscule piece of trash or foam, and doing so until their death. Not a bad thing unless this is done to the total neglect of the Creator God.
I find it so interesting that in a country where they care so much about the environment, energy, green, nature, & they are so recycle-conscious, that it is a land that despises human life so much. A plummeting birth rate is the first indication. But secondly & most despicable is the means of abortion as birth control or a way to save some money that would go to another mouth.
Japan does not have official definition of orphans & as a society is highly against adoption & will even sometimes abuse neighbors who are foster parents or who have adopted, because not having a child that shares your blood is extremely shameful. Don't you know foolish ones, it is less shameful to shed blood that to share a life with one who is not your blood?
And back to the Japanese doing what God commanded by caring for the environment - it has more to do with Shintoism & the animistic belief that all mountains, trees, rivers, animals, are mini-divinities anyways, so I think the commendation is a little over & above.
I say to Hell with your pristine water & your clean parks. Would that a dog litter your yard with a pound of dung & a trash can spill & scatter for every baby killed.
Excuse me - I just put my son, made in the image of God, down for a nap after playing in a pretty park. I guess it just makes me a little heated to think that the trees shading us in there would be considered of more worth than he is.
Have you ever noticed though, how the Bible is always right? Romans gives clear statements that pagan lands will rob God of His revealed glory in order to pin that glory to the creation and worship it instead.
In this land, Japan, you can find people deeply aged, not contemplating eternity, their soul, their life, or their beliefs, but working endlessly on pruning a garden, or stooped by the roadside picking out every minuscule piece of trash or foam, and doing so until their death. Not a bad thing unless this is done to the total neglect of the Creator God.
I find it so interesting that in a country where they care so much about the environment, energy, green, nature, & they are so recycle-conscious, that it is a land that despises human life so much. A plummeting birth rate is the first indication. But secondly & most despicable is the means of abortion as birth control or a way to save some money that would go to another mouth.
Japan does not have official definition of orphans & as a society is highly against adoption & will even sometimes abuse neighbors who are foster parents or who have adopted, because not having a child that shares your blood is extremely shameful. Don't you know foolish ones, it is less shameful to shed blood that to share a life with one who is not your blood?
And back to the Japanese doing what God commanded by caring for the environment - it has more to do with Shintoism & the animistic belief that all mountains, trees, rivers, animals, are mini-divinities anyways, so I think the commendation is a little over & above.
I say to Hell with your pristine water & your clean parks. Would that a dog litter your yard with a pound of dung & a trash can spill & scatter for every baby killed.
Excuse me - I just put my son, made in the image of God, down for a nap after playing in a pretty park. I guess it just makes me a little heated to think that the trees shading us in there would be considered of more worth than he is.
