(Author’s note: Nothing written below will make any sense unless you currently accept the premise that an abortion kills a human being.  If you do not think abortion is killing a human being, don’t read this post.  Go do research on abortion.)

Do you wonder why there is so much turmoil over the Health care bill?  I did. 

And then I realized something: this bill is at war with itself.

The exterior war that I see being played out is due to the inherent nature of this bill.  This bill is a polemical and philosophical civil war.  It comes to bring division, not unity.   

This inherent civil war within the bill is due to the fact that it achieves two completely contradictory goals.  On one hand, it seeks to promote health care, to promote the sustenance of living beings, to propagate life.  And yet, within its very laws and statutes, it allows for the destruction of life.  Within the depths of its fibers, it brings federal funding for abortion, and this is such a radical disconnect from its proposed mission, which is to promote health care and to promote the welfare of living beings.

But Life and Death can’t coexist in the same organism for very long.  Cancer either kills you or you kill the cancer.  They are at war with one another.  It is a fight to the Death.  This bill is an organism born with cancer, pulled by the strings of both Life and Death.  We can’t have both.  This bill cannot attain its vision of promoting life while also promoting death. 

All the hype, all of the media, all of the discussion, all the anger, all the division, and all of the bloodshed is merely a manifestation of the inherent civil war that occurs in the depths of the Bill itself.  And if you don’t think there is bloodshed because of this bill, ask Representative Cantor whose offices were fired at yesterday.  Go to the abortion clinics where babies will have their skulls crushed in order to be scraped from the walls of the mother’s uterus.  There has been and will continue to be bloodshed.  This is just the opening round.  It’s not as if giving many Americans health insurance can balance out the increase in Death that has Planned Parenthood giggling under their breath and Margaret Sanger rejoicing.  This is not about striking a balance.   There is no “balance” in a civil war. 

So when you read another news article that looks like hype, or when you read another blog post that looks like people are at war, realize that this is because the bill itself is pulsing with an internal conflict, an internal division, an internal war, containing irreconcilable and infinitely divergent pulls toward both Life and Death. 

May the Warriors of Light fight valiantly in this war.

And lest you think I am calling you to arms, remember the words of St. Paul: “Fight evil with good.”  And again, “For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.  Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground.  So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate, and your feet shod in readiness for the gospel of peace.  In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all (the) flaming arrows of the evil one.  And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.  With all prayer and supplication, pray at every opportunity in the Spirit.”