It is just too bad that babies in the womb cannot be polled about abortion. All too soon, it looks like, the ones who are born will be fined if they do not participate in the government health care mandates that permit elective abortions. We should be ashamed. Freedom is diminished. God is watching.

Hey davel,

If “God is watching”, what do you think he will do about it? NOTHING!!

Personally, I wish we had a society where people took their reproductive potential more seriously, and a society where pregnant women felt much more comfortable about carrying embryos and fetuses to term. I am unclear how threatening people with “God is Watching” does any of that.

Mydog, what ARE you going on about?

God does NOT know all in the past and future: He is eternal - outside of time. Everything is “right now” to God.
And since time is merely the measure by which we know change in the created physical universe, and since even as spiritual beings our existence in involved in that measure, in eternity, you yourself are “right now” praising God in Heaven for bringing you to share in His own supernatural life by sanctifying grace (or so is my sincere prayer).

But you see, “in time”, YOU must freely participate in that reality yourself of your own will (if you shall indeed attain to it).
“For God, Who created us without ourselves, will likewise not save us without ourselves.” - St. Augustine

Give fictional characters any power we want?
I think rather YOU need to stop claiming omnipotence for yourself - which is, in the long run, a far more silly proposition.

Hey Lee,

You had better take up that “not omniscient” property with the poster known as “hs”. I’ll join you, evidently you and I agree that “God doesn’t know everything”. In fact, I said so. And I proved it, though perhaps you disagree. I think maybe you are waffling. That, or you don’t know what you’re going on about.

According to The Source, i.e. the very Bible itself, God most certainly DOES have a time-awareness, if not his own, then certainly ours! Often God says “do this, then I will do that”… the word “then” indicates time awareness. Not to mention “On the FIRST DAY…, then the SECOND DAY…, etc.” You might be right about God, but’s not just all “in the moment”, as you postulate. How do you presume to know so much about God, anyway? I think you are just guessing.

Here, read The Word of God, Psalms 139:16, “your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” See, God knows about every birth, and by extension, every aborted fetus long BEFORE they came to be. Even if God doesn’t know everything, here is the clear claim to know some stuff before it happens, and precisely the stuff about births and deaths which is relevant both to the article and to davel’s and my own first comment.

I don’t have to be “omnipotent” to read and understand the plain language of the Holy Bible. Neither do you.

I do have some ideas about improving society in order reduce abortions. You didn’t seem to have any objection. Do you agree with me there, or did you overlook them in your haste to thrust an ad hominem into the conversation?

Sorry, mydog, but I don’t quibble with non-Catholics concerning Divine Revelation, the proper context of natural morality, metaphysical reality or any other matter about which they simply have not the infused entitative habits to apprehend rightly.

For one who has received the Divine Virtues of Faith and Charity to attempt to describe any matter of the Faith with one who is without that Virtue, as well as currently oppossed (apparently) to it, is like trying to describe tonal qualities of varying instruments to one born deaf, or varying shades of color to one born blind. You simply do not possess the faculties.

All I can do is witness; yours is merely to seek, beg, and cooperate with the actual graces which God may give you.

And here’s the good news! If you are truly and sincerely seeking the Truth, and are a person of good will, God will respond to this aspiration which He Himself has initiated, and you will receive and hold the Catholic Faith before you die, and be saved.

But first you will have to be shorn of your obvious ill-will and arrogance.

It is unfortunate that in Mrs. Donald A. Tyree, we have a ‘journalist’ who is a cut and paste writer, that is, when she is not having the president of the National Right to Life, write her columns for her.
(In truth, Mr.Douglas Johnson, should be listed as the co ‘author’ of her columns, for many is the time, when he has written more of it, than she has.)

If she finds the assignment of writing this column too taxing ,then I submit that she do the honourable thing, and step aside for one, who can provide more than mere partisan regurgitation.

Mrs. Tyree has made an attempt to portray Dr. Carhart, as nothing less than the - spawn of Satan.
And perhaps,yes perhaps, there are those who accept her views, without doing their homework.
But - With just a few quick clicks of your mouse, one is lead back into the world of reality, and away from Mrs. Tyree’s morality play.

Mrs. Tyree’s co-hearts, in the anti-abortion community of ‘Life’, have:
burned his house down / burned his barn down/ destroyed his car,truck / killed his domestic pets and, more than a doz.horses/ threatened death to his entire family/ sued him Unsuccessfully - on multiple occasions, in hopes of financially destroying him/ and too much more to list.

ALL In The Name of - drum roll please - Mrs. Tyree’s brand of Christianity and Morality !

And now - A few small tidbits to munch on, if you have not already been sickened, by this merry band of outlaws.
The women, who have charged that drugs were missing from the clinic - All have felony drug convictions. Now where or where could those little drugs have gone to ?
A, Jennifer McCoy, who has been a major player with these so-called right to ‘life’ groups who are trying to take down Dr. Carhart, spent 30 months in prison for arson,having set fires to abortion clinics in Virginia.
When she got out - that angel of mercy, has been making prison visits to Scott Roeder,the accused murderer of one Dr. Tillis ( who was gunned down, on a Sunday, in his Church).

Let us not forget that Dr. Carhart is not being investigated for infractions. The police are investigating, the charges, brought by three convicted drug felons, who are being financially sustained by Operation Rescue and Army of God (their spelling not mine).
This is while Operation Rescue,Army of God, etc. are all being investigated for horrific crimes.

To be against reproductive rights, is Mrs Tyree’s right.
To be morally aligned with groups that support the actions, visited upon Dr. Carhart - well, how to put this nicely, that is more than objectionable.

Mrs.Tyree should be more careful with the company she, intellectually, keeps company with.
One is known by the company one keeps - and Randall Terry should be on No One’s dance card.

Hey Lee,

In other words, you have nothing to say, and surrender any attempt to defend your earlier claims.

Good for you!

Sure, Mydog, if that idea comforts you.

Perhaps you are a person with much insight!
And then again, maybe not.
Only Almighty God and you yourself know for certain.
I’ll leave it there with the both of You.

Carry on, seek on, challenge Heaven to take you!
You seem to possess all the potential to become a Saint!
And if you should indeed attain to and enter that company of the blessed before me, please remember me.

Cynthia,

Actually, there is only one thing that I need to know about the abortionist Carhart: he has utterly destroyed human persons.

Whatever damage he has incurred from this fact - albeit quite unjustly as ‘vengenge is mine’ says Our Lord - pales in comparison to the heinous iniquities by which he has first gravely offended Almighty God, and by extension trespassed so violently and with such moral insouciance against his fellow human creatures.

His actions are worthy of all contempt, and I sincerely pray that he may yet be given the grace to turn and receive eternal life as Dr. Nathanson has so received.

Of course I perceive by your responses that you probably havn’t the least understanding to grasp the magnitude of that moral atrocity which is the deliberate destruction of a human person in the womb, but there it is.

mydogshakespeare,

The Greek word translated as “Omnipotent” is pantokrator, meaning “All-ruling” or (as it is more frequently translated) “Almighty.” When we say God is “Almighty,” we are stating our belief in His authority and rulership over all creation, and the Bible is firm in declaring this fact. However it is man who has made a mess of this term omnipresent, to mean something that it was never intended to mean. “Pantokrator” the Greek term has nothing at all to do with God knowing the choices that people will make before hand, it only means being present everywhere at the same time.

God does know and can read what is in people’s hearts and thoughts at any time or given moment. This is a big difference from knowing the choices people will make before hand. This is why God extended His grace to ALL mankind giving each of us the equal opportunity to make a decision to love Him and turn away from sin.

If God knew beforehand the choices people would make, He would not have been so disturbed by the wickedness of mankind as shown to us in Genesis 6:5, 6 and, so many other places shown to us in Scripture,

“When the Lord saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, and how no desire that his heart conceived was ever anything but evil, he regretted that he had made man on earth, and his heart was grieved. [Gen. 6:5,6]

Lastly, I apologize for the arrogant way in which Lee responded to you earlier, I found him to have responded in an extremely unchristian fashion.

Never allow anyone to keep you from asking questions that don’t make sense (somehow I don’t think that you ever will),(lol). Frankly, the way inwhich many Christians incorrectly apply the term Omnipotent to God is very disturbing and does great harm in people learning what is true about God as written in Scripture.