{"id":6943,"date":"2024-10-16T18:51:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T23:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6943"},"modified":"2024-10-16T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T23:51:58","slug":"half-slave-half-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6943","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;HALF SLAVE &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; HALF FREE&#8221; ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is inconceivable that anyone in America today could live with slavery legal in some states and illegal in other states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the absolute conclusion of Abraham Lincoln for the country, that &#8220;the union cannot survive half slave and half free.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was absolutely right&#8212;slavery or its abolition had to be decided one way or another, at all cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it was decided, at all cost ! ! !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black people are humans equal to all other people, with equal rights&#8212;and our Constitution was amended to guarantee all rights to all Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, this same union of The United States of America cannot survive half death and half life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abortion* or its abolition has to be decided one way or another, at all cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it will be decided, at all cost ! ! !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That cost will not be postponed or ignored, by talking about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is inconceivable that anyone in America today could live with death to babies legal in some states and illegal in other states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Abortion<br>Killing fellow human beings&#8212;babies, helpless, innocent, babies&#8212;infinitely more horrific in God&#8217;s sight than enslaving fellow human beings.<br>The Bible calls for capital punishment for murder.<br>But for crimes against children, the Bible adds graphically to the execution:<br>&#8220;a millstone hanged about his neck and he be drowned in the depth of the sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is inconceivable that anyone in America today could live with slavery legal in some states and illegal in other states. It was the absolute conclusion of Abraham Lincoln for the country, that &#8220;the union cannot survive half slave and half free.&#8221; He was absolutely right&#8212;slavery or its abolition had to be decided one way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943"}],"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=6943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6944,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}