Is the day of righteous indignation a thing of the past?

I am angry, very angry! Don’t be alarmed. The Bible allows Christians to be angry. In Ephesians 4:26 the Apostle Paul wrote, “Be angry, and sin not.”

Jesus got angry. He could hardly be described as the “meek and lowly Nazarene” when he turned the tables of the moneychangers upside down and drove them out of the temple. He demonstrated righteous indignation when he saw the temple of God defiled, saying, “My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves” (Matt. 21:13).

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Dan Becker, left, newly-elected president of Georgia Right to Life, and Mike Griffin, pastor of Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell and legislative director for GRTL, discuss the Paramount Human Life Amendment.

Of course, one must have some deep convictions and heart-felt passion in order to become righteously indignant. I wonder if we have enough of those qualities to demonstrate a “holy anger” anymore.

The English poet Alexander Pope once wrote: “Vice is a monster of so frightful face, as to be hated needs but to be seen; but seen too often, familiar with her face, we first endure, then tolerate, then embrace.”

I deeply fear that the vast multitude of Christians are at the endurance and tolerance stages when it comes to some of the evils of our society, but there are times when we need to get our “dander up,” when we need to move into action.

In Isa. 59:19 the Bible declares, “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” That standard of truth and righteousness is often lifted up best by the people of God.

The greatest atrocity of our time is abortion. There are approximately four thousand babies aborted in the United States every day and 126,000 abortions performed daily worldwide. Since the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 there have been more than 48 million abortions in the U.S. alone.

Our Declaration of Independence states: “… all men are created equal.” In all rightness those words apply to every human embryo and fetus as well. And because they are human at the earliest of conception, they are as equally human as everyone else who is rightly regarded as human.

These are “truths” which are indeed “self evident.” However, for selfish and unloving reasons, they are rejected by blind and coldhearted liberals, moderates, rationalizing conservatives, and people gullible enough to agree with such heinous insanity.

We all rejoice in Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation that declared, “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.” Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave and although it was limited in many ways, it confirmed that the Civil War was a war for freedom.

It is time to engage in a war to set free the last group of people in our society who needs emancipation – the unborn child.

In the Roe v. Wade decision Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the court and stated, “If the personhood of the fetus is established, (the case for abortion), of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [Fourteenth] Amendment.”

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GBC Executive Director J. Robert White, left, and Caryl Swift, recent past president of GRTL, listen as Dan Becker shares his commitment to sanctity of life issues.

State Representative Martin Scott has introduced “The Paramount Human Life Amendment” into the Georgia Legislature as HR 536. The bill is now in the Judicial Civil Committee of the Georgia House of Representatives. It is a bill that establishes the personhood for every individual in Georgia from conception to natural death.

However, the PHLA is more than just another pro-life bill. It is a pro-human bill. Let me explain. Scientific advancements in the specific fields of nanotechnology and human enhancement are forcing us to rethink what it means to be human.

Do you remember watching Lee Majors on television playing the part of The Six Million Dollar Man? That fantasy-like television program of the 1970s is quickly becoming a reality. Many believe that within the decade it will be possible for scientific technology to increase human strength and capabilities and imbed nano-computers into our bodies in order to help process more information.

Nigel Cameron, a bioethicist and Dean at the Wilberforce Institute, says, “The 21st Century will be dominated by two words, ‘transhuman’ and ‘eugenics.’” Eugenics is the manipulation of genetic structures to create more perfect human beings. Transhumanists will implant technology within the human body to enhance the brain and body functions.

For example, they could plug a chip into a student’s brain to help him or her pass their SAT or GRE. Cameron says this possibility is not far from becoming a reality.

Through inheritable genetic modification, science is becoming amazingly close to taking human evolution into its own hands and directing it toward the development of a new species, sometimes termed “the posthuman.”

Atlanta attorney and member of the UN Committee on Health and Science Jim Kelly emphasized the development of cyborgs through the use of nanotechnology combined with artificial intelligence. Through this developing process they are confident they will be able to enhance the brain and allow humans to evolve to the next level.

It all sounds so futuristic, but The Brave New World of Aldous Huxley, published in 1932 to depict what London would be like in 2540, is already beginning to materialize in the United States.

To me, it all boils down to some kind of a “frankenscience.”

As a people that believe in Imageo Dei, that man is created in the image of God, this whole idea of taking innocent life through abortion and now this genetic engineering called trans-humanism and it’s sub-category, cyborgism, is nothing more than man trying to be God. The whole thing is science embracing the great lie of Gen. 3:5, “You shall be like God.”

So, we are no longer confronted with just a pro-life issue, it is a pro-human issue. And the “Paramount Human Life Amendment” is not meant to be a statute. A statute can be changed. It is intended to be an amendment to our state Constitution, which can have a lasting effect on our state.

Mike Griffin, pastor of Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell and newly-selected legislative director for Georgia Right to Life, says that he believes that “Georgia can be the neck that turns the head.”

If we can get this amendment to our Constitution on the ballot in November of 2008 and our people to vote for the PHLA it could impact the Roe v. Wade decision and influence the whole nation.

Georgia Right to Life is calling on all of us to fast and pray for “40 Days for Life,” from Sept. 26 to Nov. 4. They are urging us to contact our state representatives and state senators to ask them to support the “Paramount Human Life Amendment.” Do you have enough righteous indignation to do it?