Text Box: Text Box: pretends to represent all sides in such matters, for such representation is impossible. If a politician is willing to kill babies to achieve political position, the electorate can be assured such politicians are willing to engage in any evil to attain their political goals. This includes every evil imaginable; even betrayal of the country they are supposed to represent and govern; even enslavement and killing the people who elected them.

If such statement seems extreme, remember that pro-abortion politicians have already betrayed one class of people whom they represent. They have betrayed babies. They have not only failed to protect babies, but have actively assisted and promoted unrestricted torture and killing of babies.

As an example, one result of the unrestricted warfare against babies is the instability of the Social Security and government sponsored retirement systems. Because there are fewer children there are fewer future adults. Therefore, the number of adults contributors to these systems is not increasing or stabilizing at a level which will maintain stability.

So too is it with politicians who promote homosexual and lesbian so-called marriages. Such unions undermine one of the main foundations of society. Two or more men can not produce a child, nor can two or more women. It is obvious that children were designed to be produced and raised by a man and a woman, and no amount of self-serving noise from advocates of immorality will change that fact.

Therefore, politicians who promote abortion and same sex unions actually undermine society and harm everyone. If you vote for such people and they are elected, you will be harmed by them.

1 Peter 2:11-19; John 16:16-22

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Text Box: accurate would be that Christians do good works, do good things, and contemplate how they might be able to be and do good.

Unfortunately, today, very few people have even a sense of sin. Most people today consider any sins they commit to be insignificant even though those sins include abortion; ridicule of honorable people; lying in a manner harmful to others; overt lewdness; sexual promiscuity and licentious fornication; significant theft through every means possible including but not limited to shoddy workmanship, substandard materials in products, over charging, and waste of public funds; and even murder; just to mention a few of the numerous types of significant sins common today.

Today, not only is there the lack of a sense of sin, but there also is the lack of a sense of shame.

Yet innate within every human being there is a sense of sin, a sense of right and wrong, a sense of good and evil. It exists because we each know that there are certain things which we do not wish to be done to us, and we can easily extrapolate that desire these things not be done to us as being the desire of others as well. None of us wish to be ridiculed, and we therefore know that no one else wishes to be ridiculed. None of us wishes to have stolen from us that for which we have worked very hard to acquire, and we therefore know that no one else desires that happen to them. None of us wishes to be murdered, and we therefore know that no one else wishes to be murdered. None of us wishes to be lied to or to be betrayed, and we therefore know that no one else wishes to be lied to or be betrayed. None of us wishes to be used, and we therefore know that no one else wishes to be used.

Yet these sins and other sins are so common as to be part of the culture of most of humankind. And when these sins become known it is rare that a Text Box: sense of shame is expressed nor is it expected that the one caught would experience shame - other than shame at being caught.

Why is there no sense of sin and no sense of shame in much of today’s culture?

These are lacking partially because they have not been taught. But they are lacking primarily because they have been attacked, battered, ridiculed, and taught, actually taught, to be irrelevant, immaterial, and worthless.

Children observe their parents not parenting. They observe their parents being unfaithful one to another in sexual relations and in even showing respect one to another. They observe their parents cheating on income tax and bragging about it, as well as providing inferior products and workmanship and making financial gain and bragging about it. They observe every kind of sin being committed, if not explicitly then at least implicitly, on virtually every television show and in virtually every movie. And public figures are honored and valued for their physical attributes and the grossness of their sins rather than for their good, positive and moral  accomplishments.

Children are not the only ones who observe these things. Adults observe them as well and are also influenced by them so-as-to lose what ever sense of sin and shame which they may possess.

It is but a simple step from personal sin and shameful behavior, to sin and shameful behavior against others, and thence to violence against others with no sense of sin or shame other than a desire to not be caught and incarcerated. But even incarceration is a badge of honor for many, because it is proof they are bad, evil, and without a sense of sin, a sense of shame, and without remorse.

Those who attempt to reduce crime without re-introducing God into society, without re-establishing a sense Text Box: Today, not only is there the lack of a sense of sin, but there also is the lack of a sense of shame.