By: Dale Weckbacher
2 Timothy 3:1-2
But
understand this, that in the last days there will come times of
difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of
self, lovers of money, proud,arrogant, abusive, disobedient to
their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
(ESV)
Children are the future of any nation and is why civilized
nations have laws protecting these innocent children that will grow to be the
nation’s next leaders. However, while
this makes sense to most people, we are beginning to see nations, including the
United States, cheapening the lives of these future leaders by aborting them
before their birth. (1)
Radical Islam justifying the use of their children as suicide bombers convincing
these innocent children that their death will be rewarded. (2)
In other nations, Including the United States, children are sold as sex slaves
for profit. (3)
Children are not the only individuals subjected to abuse in
these last days for women also find themselves abused in much of the
world. In Muslim nations functioning
under Sharia Law, Women are treated as second class citizens. James M. Arlandson has compiled a top 10 list
of rules from the Quran that demonstrate the abuse of women under Islam. His list consists of,
1)
A
husband has sex with his wife, as a plow goes into a dirt field (Sura 2:223)
2)
Husbands
are a degree above their wives (Sura 2:228)
3)
A male
gets a double share of the inheritance over that of a female (Sura 4:11)
4)
A
woman’s testimony counts half of a man’s testimony (Sura 2:282)
5)
A wife
may remarry her ex-husband if and only if she marries another man, they have
sex, and then this second man divorces her (Sura 2:230)
6)
Slave-girls
are sexual property for their male owners (Sura 4:24)
7)
A man
may be polygamous with up to four wives (Sura 4:3)
8)
A Muslim
polygamist may simply get rid of one of his undesirable wives (Sura
4:129)
9)
Husbands
may hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their
wives (quite apart from whether they actually are highhanded—as if domestic
violence in any form is acceptable) (Sura 4:34)
This list is hardly something one would promote to some
feminist organization in the civilized world but we currently have a
presidential candidate who has received contributions form nations supporting
this treatment of women. That candidate
is Hillary Clinton, causing us to question her commitment to women’s issues in
the United States. (5)
Granted the contributions are to the Clinton Foundation and
not directly to the Clinton campaign but the very fact that the foundation
accepted this money brings Mrs. Clintons commitment to women’s issues into
question. The main reason that outsider
candidates, like her GOP opponent Donald Trump, are resonating with voters is
the disgust of these voters with the hypocrisy they see in Washington D.C.
Jesus was at odds with the religious leaders of his
time. His main complaint was their
hypocrisy (Matthew 23:13). One
definition of hypocrisy is “a person who feigns some desirable or publicly
approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements
belie his or her public statements.” (6) In other words, hypocrisy is saying one thing
and doing another.
If Hillary Clinton wants to stop being a hypocrite when it
comes to women’s issues, she must cease accepting money into the Clinton
foundation from nations supporting abusive behavior of women through the
practice of Sharia law. She also must
pay women the same as men (7)
another demonstration of the hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton also has to answer to the
hypocrisy of throwing women abused by her husband under the bus in order to
protect her political interests. (8)
Abuse is a serious issue and something we must as a
civilized society take a stand against.
However, when we have leaders supporting the abuse of killing the
unborn, religions that abuse children by encouraging them to commit suicide in
the name of their God, and those selling young girls into sex slavery for
profit. We also must stand against
hypocrisy in our leadership that claims to be against abuse but whose actions
support it by either taking money from abusive nations or covering up for abuse
in the interest of protecting their political positions.
1. Severino, Jamie Bryan Hall and Roger.
Disentangling the Data on Planned Parenthood Affiliates’ Abortion Services and
Receipt of Taxpayer Funding. www.heritage.org. [Online] The Heritage
Foundation, September 30, 2015. [Cited: August 13, 2016.]
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/09/disentangling-the-data-on-planned-parenthood-affiliates-abortion-services-and-receipt-of-taxpayer-funding.
2. Kemble, Harry.
Inside the 'Caliphate Cubs': ISIS grooming kid suicide bombers to wreak havoc
in Europe. www.dailystar.co.uk. [Online] Daily Star, August 27, 2016.
[Cited: August 31, 2016.] http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/540450/ISIS-child-suicide-bombers-Turkey-Syria.
3. Thorn. CHILD
SEX TRAFFICKING STATISTICS. www.wearethorn.com. [Online] Thorn. [Cited:
August 31, 2016.] https://www.wearethorn.org/child-trafficking-statistics/.
4. Arlandson, James
M. Top ten rules in the Quran that oppress and insult women. www.answering-islam.org.
[Online] Answering Islam. [Cited: August 31, 2016.]
http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_top_ten.htm.
5. Chozick, Amy.
Hilary Clinton Faces Test of Record as Womsn's Advocate. www.nytimes.com. [Online]
The New York Times, March 8, 2015. [Cited: August 31, 2016.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-faces-test-of-record-aiding-women.html?_r=0.
6. Dictionary.com.
hypocrite. www.dictionary.com. [Online] [Cited: August 31, 2016.]
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hypocrite.
7. Kelleher, Seamus.
Hillary Clinton Demands Equal Pay But Doesn’t Put Her Money Where Her Mouth Is.
ijr.com. [Online] Independent Journal. [Cited: August 31, 2016.]
http://ijr.com/2015/02/257200-hillary-clinton-paid-female-staff-28-percent-less-men/.
8. Giuliani, Rudy.
Giuliani: Clinton Headed ‘Bimbo Squad’ to Attack Women for Bill. www.bloomberg.com.
[Online] Bloomberg, July 21, 2016. [Cited: August 31, 2016.]
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/trackers/2016-07-21/giuliani-clinton-headed-bimbo-squad-to-attack-women-for-bill.
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