In the news about plans to blow up planes, are mentioned mothers who are perfectly willing to blow their children with them.  To quote from CBS News, "Authorities said Thursday the plot would have caused "mass murder on an unimaginable scale." At least one of the 24 people arrested was reportedly a woman with a small child..."  But if you believe what Islam teaches, then what better way to die than to blow up the non-Muslims?  And what's wrong with taking your child with you?

Unfortunately, it's not only these women who will kill their babies.  It's done all the time in America, and it's socially acceptable, not to mention perfectly legal.  And while those who oppose this legal procedure are called "pro-life", those who support it aren't called "pro-death", oh no; they're called, "pro-choice". 

In China it's not even pro-choice:  it's pro-whatever-the-government-makes-you-do. 

As Mom and I were discussing the wrongness of all this... mothers willing to kill their children, we began talking about how the war on terror isn't really a war on the terrorists -- it's a war of worldviews.  Then again, this isn't (or shouldn't be) a surprise.  Paul told us in Ephesians 6:12, "For we do not struggle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces in the heavenly places."

I was reminded of a few things. 

One, Michael Card's song 

The Spirit of the Age

I thought that I heard crying coming through my door.
Was it Rachel weeping for her sons who were no more?
Could it have been the babies crying for themselves,
Never understanding why they died for someone else?

The voices head of weeping and of wailing,
History speaks of it on every page.
Of innocent and helpless little babies,
Offerings to the spirit of the age.

No way of understanding this sad and painful sign.
Whenever Satan rears his head there comes a tragic time.
If he could crush the cradle, then that would stop the cross.
He knew that once the Light was born his every hope was lost!

Now every age had heard it, the voice that speaks from hell.
"Sacrifice your children and for you it will be well."
The subtle serpent's lying, his dark and ruthless rage.
Behold it is revealed to be the spirit of the age!

Soon all the ones who seemed to die for nothing
Will stand beside the Ancient of Days,
With joy we'll see that Infant from a manger
Come and crush the spirit of the age

*edit -- I'm not saying that I agree with all the theology in the song, Spirit of the Age.  But it does have some good points, and it did come to mind. 

And also of a section of the book Whirled Views, by Marvin Olasky and Joel Belz, which I shall just quote: " 'Can a mother forget the baby at her breast,' Isaiah asked, 'and have no compassion on the child she has borne?'  (Isaiah 49:15)  The prophet knew how unthinkable the thought was in the minds of his readers -- or in our minds three millennia and a hundrend human generations later. 

"But we flatter ourselves.  Isaiah's point was actually very different.  We tend to truncate the quote from the prophet because we like to think better of ourselves than we ought.  It may be comfortable to distance ourselves from [a lady who caused the death of her sons]'s of the world, but it's ultimately dishonest to do so. 

"For Isaiah didn't stop where I stopped.  He went on with the sober reminder that even mother-love is not constant.  'Though she may forget,' Isaiah reminds us, "I will not forget you.'  Only God is faithful."

That is the good news in a world which finds murdering children acceptable.  God says to His people, "I will not forget you.  Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands... I am the LORD your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Israel."  (from Isaiah 49:15, 16, and 26)

AMEN!