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Saturday, December 2, 2017

I Have Set Before You Vita (Life) and Cide (Death)

Good planets are really hard to find.
Which of the following do you think the compassionate Creator of the universe and of all of its inhabitants would consider the most unthinkably heinous of all evils?

Note: Not all of the terms below can be found in your dictionary.

Spermicide: using a substance to kill sperm to avoid pregnancy

Ovicide: preventing implantation of a fertilized ovum to avoid pregnancy

Embrycide: aborting an embryo in the early stages of pregnancy

Feticide: aborting a fetus in a later stage of pregnancy

Infanticide: killing a newborn, or not giving a baby the means to live, at the end of a pregnancy

Suicide: taking ones own life

Homicide: taking another person's life

Militiacide: training and arming young men and women to become warriors capable of killing whoever their nation considers its enemies, and if necessary sacrificing their own lives in the process

Genocide: systematically bombing, starving or otherwise destroying whole populations of people

Atomicide: creating and using nuclear weapons capable of destroying all civilization as we know it

Terracide: contributing to the destruction of all life systems on earth through the exploitation of its resources and the pollution of its land, atmosphere and oceans

P.S. Here's a link to one of my pro-life blogs:
https://harvyoder.blogspot.com/2015/04/all-life-is-precious-conversation-with.html

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