Aborting the “Damned”

On my way to work last week I was scanning the AM dial …

“I do not believe that non-Christians should have babies.

And I want you to hear what I’m saying tonight …

I believe it would be better for that baby to die in the womb than to be born to a couple who are not Saved.

Did you hear me? I want you to pay attention.

It would be better for a child to die in the womb than be born to a mother or a couple who aren’t Saved.

A child in a home without Jesus … is destined for Hell.

I pray that if a child is born to parents who aren’t Saved — that he or she dies before the age of accountability.

It would be better to have never lived than to live without Jesus.”

It was dark. I was alone. It was late. I was aghast! At that moment, my own face would have scared me. I quickly hit Scan. I was ashamed I’d even heard the words. In hindsight I wish I knew the name of the Pastor, the Congregation, the Station. Then again, why? What would I, an Orthodox Christian, do?

This was a Country Preacher; obviously a hateful man. He was saying these words to a congregation; instilling his ideas in the minds and hearts of his faithful.

If I’d not heard it with my own ears — on the radio at that! — I’d have not believed there was such a sermon. Such a Minister. Such a thing. Such.

In the Culture Wars we often arm ourselves for the big dragons: Mainstream Media, Liberal Politicians, Hollywood. Possibly, there in our own back hollers, there’s smaller snakes wrapped in the Cloth, spewing the “Gospel” to our neighbors (the folks who really do live next door).

“I’ve got the Good News! And the Good News is … you’re going to Hell!”

I’m fairly certain the radio preacher wouldn’t view my children, all Cradle Orthodox, as Saved.

Lord have mercy.