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Murder is legal, as long as we call it 'abortion'.
You can be arrested on suspicion, have your name plastered across newspapers, lose your jobs, friends, and reputation, be harassed and subjected to jail with real criminals, and then let go.
The legal system can rip apart your whole life, body, and soul - then say, "Oops, we made a mistake." In other circles this is called abuse, slander, liable, and such. Though, it's perfectly legal under
disguise of ‘Justice’.
When there's a real criminal whose committed a real crime; they're not prosecuted, legal system gets fumbled, they're arrested before gathering enough evidence to convict, someone feels sorry for them, they're let go in exchange for information, they aren't properly placed for rehabilitation, expensive lawyers get them off, or they're let out early. But, lest we be too hard on system, perhaps it would be just as good to admit that we don't do such a great job of judging ourselves ... that we're just as tempted to condemn anyone we think suspicious, difficult, different, or wrong.
"Man looks on outward appearance, but Lord looks on heart, " I Sa. 16:7. Except God gives us ability to see man's heart, we're way out of our league. "Judge not, that ye be not judged," (Mt. 7:1) is a pretty specific warning for us all.
If we check our heart, attitude, actions, and motives to see how truthful we are and where we've been so ready to condemn others (then, presume innocence in heeding scriptural warning for shedding of innocent blood), we could consider our responsibility to love others as if we were loving Jesus, Himself (Mt. 25:40). Perhaps, then, we could be proud of "THE AMERICAN WAY".
© by Joyce C. Lock http://my.homewithgod.com/blessingsandlessons/ This writing may be used in its entirety, with credits in tact, for non-profit ministering purposes.
In addition to being a published author and poet, Joyce C. Lock created the religion column, "Christianity Made Simple" for Peru Daily Tribune, continues to write inspirational articles for area newspapers, and shares further in online and e-mail ministries.
