Reverence for Life or Culture for Death?

Every time I try to watch Chris Matthews on Hard Ball I get frustrated. His shoot from the hip arrogance on issues he obviously knows little about is irritating. He is the poster boy for "Often wrong but never in doubt."

Tonight, Sunday, October 10, one of the panel members noted that Kerry's response at the last debate about abortion was "wishy washy" or something similar. Chris interrupted, of course, and proceeded to correct the guy. He then lectured us on how social issues about the sanctity of life should be kept out of politics. He went on to quote the Bible, "Give unto Caesar..."

The right to life is protected by the Constitution and the Constitution was founded on the Bible. However, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not only for Jews and Christians.

Why do we say Hitler was wrong for killing millions? He had no reverence for life.

Does Chris mean that any politician that reverences life is crossing the church-state barrier? Almost all our laws come from our Judeo-Christian heritage. Civil rights come from scripture certainly not evolution. We Christians protect the weak and vulnerable while evolution promotes survival only of the fittest. That legal protection comes straight from scripture not from science.

Why did John Kerry think killing in Viet Nam was wrong? Was it based on evolution or Catholic moral reasoning? Roman Catholic teaching found in scripture.

Perhaps Chris is better at knowing scripture than Howard Dean. Dean placed his favorite book of the Bible, Jonah, in the New Testament and written by two different people. That is amazing scholarship! I just got out an old, dusty Bible and, voila, Jonah is still in the Old Testament.

Chris, why not follow the moral teachings of your church and admit that taking innocent life is wrong? All current Protestants who support the protection of innocent life do so as the result of reading Roman Catholic scholars. Are we Protestants more consistent with the Catholic teachings than you and Kerry?

The Lord says, "I set before you death or life. Therefore, choose life."

How should this nation be remembered? As a place where the lonely, sick and weakest of our citizens could find refuge or where the strong can take the lives of the weak for any reason whatsoever? The two candidates make the choice very clear.