{"id":4896,"date":"2022-06-25T14:07:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:11:02","slug":"half-slave-half-free-half-death-half-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4896","title":{"rendered":"“HALF SLAVE, HALF FREE” – – – HALF DEATH, HALF LIFE ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave<\/em> and half free<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved<\/em> — I do not expect the house to fall<\/em> — but I do<\/em> expect it will cease to be divided.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will become all<\/em> one thing or all<\/em> the other.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—–Abraham Lincoln, June 16,1858 after the Illinois Republicans chose him as their candidate for U. S. Senator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, how telling is that quote for our country today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have quickly become unsustainably divided in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The emphasis on race has been used beyond reality to whip up division, because it is an old, convenient means to weaken a country for takeover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is far more significant in our current division and the very survival of our divided America, is what God says about our killing babies—for fifty years across the country, and now dividing us state by state for life or death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A day after Roe has been overturned, WE THANK GOD ! ! !<\/strong>, and we thank Donald Trump for his three Supreme Court appointees that made yesterday possible ! ! !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know how much more work is required to abolish abortion across America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judgment has already started falling for the blood of sixty million babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the question, “How long can this country stand, half ‘death’ and half ‘life’?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rephrasing from Lincoln’s speech:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.<\/strong>‘<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half death<\/strong> and half life<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,3,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-family","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}