#6thcommandment

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BCC Sermon Oct 7, 2018 Great sermon on the 6th Commandment. Are you a murderer? You just might be. Find out the details here. 

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Abortion rates are going down. Pro-life people like me see this as a sign of progress.

It could be indicative of shifting attitudes towards abortion.

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The ultimate fear and horror in most modern lives is to be raped or beaten, to be physically degraded in front of our loved ones, to have our family harmed and the sanctity of our homes invaded by aggressive and hateful intruders. Death or debilitation by disease and accident are statistically far more likely to occur than death or debilitation by malicious action, but the statistics do not calm our basically irrational fears. It is not fear of death and injury from disease or accident but rather acts of personal depredation and domination by our fellow human beings that strike terror and loathing in our hearts.

Dave Grossman, On Killing, 76.

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Professor Arthur Nock at Harvard was fond of saying that wars between the Greek city-states 'were only slightly more dangerous than American football.' And Ardant du Picq points out that in all his years of conquest, Alexander the Great lost only seven hundred men to the sword. . . . Indeed, the history of warfare can be seen as a history of increasingly more effective mechanisms for enabling and conditioning men to overcome their innate resistance to killing their fellow human beings.

Dave Grossman, On Killing, 13.

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Murder is the number-one cause of death among black male teens, and 25 percent of all black males in their twenties are in jail, on probation, or on parole. If this isn't genocide, then it is close.

Dave Grossman, On Killing, xxiv.

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How to Have an Abortion

Don’t think about the freckles he, or she, Might have, or how much hair, how big a grin, Or whether swimming would come naturally, Or whether–it?–might play the violin.

Don’t think of prom, don’t think of puppy love Or calculus, or snow, or spring in bloom, Or anything that might remind you of The future now contained within a womb.

Don’t feel anxiety, don’t feel regret, Don’t fret about some otherworldly guilt. Don’t feel the bond of parenthood, don’t let Insane outmoded Don Quixotes tilt

At private windmills–don’t spill any ink Examining yourself. Don’t feel. Don’t think.

—Bryce A. Taylor

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Justice and Family

Story of homicide detective whose brother murdered someone while high and confessed to him. The detective turned him in himself.  “At that point [when you’ve murdered someone], you’re no longer my brother, you’re someone who’s killed somebody”(source)