You’re Killing Me

I was recently working on a message where Jesus speaks out against murder. In my research, I came across this fascinating page on Abortion Statistics — You should check it out.

Let me pose these questions to the devoted Christian, “should not the fundamental issue of the sanctity of life be the starting and primary plank of any political candidacy? If not, what should be primary and priority when speaking of the government and how it governs its people?”

Then, another interesting quote came from a Mr. R.J. Rummel who compiled statistics for the Center on National Security Law. His analysis was directly related to Democide and Genocide. I’m going to quote him here below because I found his reaction remarkable as he seems to be challenged in his own spirit about the God-given conscience of the sanctity of life.

“As of 1986 what remained to be tested was an often asserted negative relationship between democracy and murderous government violence against citizens or foreigners. Moreover, it also made good theoretical sense that the less liberally democratic and more totalitarian a regime, the more people it murders. Unfortunately, good comparative data on democide for testing this did not then exist.
Accordingly, after a preliminary pilot study,[6] I applied for a grant from the Unites States Institute of Peace to pursue the data collection and testing of the relationship between democide and democracy. This I was granted for two years, subsequently renewed for another three.
Collecting data on democide was an horrendous task. I soon was overwhelmed by the unbelievable repetitiveness of regime after regime, ruler after ruler, murdering people under their control or rule by shooting, burial alive, burning, hanging, knifing, starvation, flaying, beating, torture, and so on and on. Year after year. Not hundreds, not thousands, not tens of thousands of these people, but millions and millions. Almost 170,000,000 of them, and this is only what appears a reasonable middle estimate. The awful toll may even reach above 300,000,000, the equivalent in dead of a nuclear war stretched out over decades.
I found that so much of this killing was unknown or ignored…”

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