The New Untermenschen: The Pre-Born Children of Amerika  [Back to the Homepage]
By Joe Pavone

May 29, 2005 -- The Nazi’s had a particularly odious but descriptive word to express their assessment of the Jewish people-"untermenschen", that is, subhumans. The Jewish children shown below are awaiting a proper burial after their mass grave was discovered by an American soldier after WWII. Not considered to be human beings and people worthy of life, these children were murdered and thrown into pits like so much garbage solely for the crime of being Jewish. http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blchildren3.htm

But today in Amerika, we are not like the Nazi’s. We are a democratic society and we give women the choice of whether or not to kill their womb children. Should they be unwanted or an inconvenience in the eyes of their mothers, we simply allow the "fetus" to be aborted. Note the same end result in either case-the murder of a child created in the image of God. What is incredible is the difference in response given by the Christian church in Amerika to these two genocidal situations.

Most Christians today would eagerly embrace the idea of using force to rescue the children of the Holocaust were we back in that time period and reject pacifism. They would tell you they would not hesitate to defend their wives and children against intruders, even to the point of using deadly force if necessary. But let a Christian today endorse the same use of force to defend an unborn child and instantly the sniveling, cowardly excuses appear-all cloaked in pious sounding phrases and Scripture taken out of context. There are many examples of these excuses, but underneath all of them lie one simple unstated premise:

UNBORN CHILDREN ARE NOT WORTHY OF THE SAME PROTECTION AS CHILDREN WHO ARE ALREADY BORN.

Thus, my title-"The New Untermenschen"-the subhuman infants who do not have a right to be defended by force, according to an effeminate, apostate Amerikan church.

However, thank God for Christians who think differently! Here is an excerpt from the martyr Paul Hill’s book: "It is certain that we should use the means necessary to defend the innocent, and since the unborn are innocent, it is equally certain that we should use the means necessary to defend them. If we knew that we, or our loved ones were about to be killed, as thousands of unborn children are each day, we would defend one another with the means necessary. We would not limit ourselves to legal and educational remedies that might possibly stop the bloodshed in the future; rather, we would take the immediate action necessary to save one another. If questioned, we would assert the moral necessity of taking this action. The law of love requires us to similarly defend the unborn, and uphold the duty to do so." http://www.armyofgod.com/PHillBookForward.html

There are those wolves in sheep’s clothing who spout Scripture to state the unborn are not really infants until after their birth, like Ron McRae of the so-called "Street Preachers Fellowship". http://www.armyofgod.com/danholman.html You would think that a so-called Christian would pause to think why he was lining up with Hitler in denying the humanity of these infants-but such men are the spiritual equivalent of Stevie Wonder. That is in a word, blind.

Most Christians in Amerika today however, simply do not want their comfort zone disturbed. They are too busy seeking "purpose-driven" lives, going to pot-luck suppers, church movies, and just generally playing church for a couple of hours on a Sunday. Bring up the courage of a Paul Hill or Jim Kopp and the pious sounding indignation spews forth:

"You can’t take the law into your own hands"

"Jesus would not have used violence"

"Vengeance is mine saith the Lord" and so on , ad-nauseam.

It takes courage to state today in Amerika that Christ is King-not the black-robed tyrants of the Supreme Court. It takes courage to state that the right to life of unborn children is not dependent on ANY government’s definition of when life begins, but on what the Scripture teaches us. It takes courage to state, the use of force to defend unborn children is not an outrageous idea if we truly consider them human and not untermenschen. The back-slidden and Laodicean church of Amerika has closed its eyes to the 45 million (as of this writing) infants slain since Roe v. Wade. This church condemns men like Paul Hill and Jim Kopp who have counted "The Cost of Discipleship" and gladly sacrificed their lives to defend the unborn. The use of force in self-defense as a Christian principle cannot only apply to those already born, but all life without exception. The cords of pacifism and materialism bind the Amerikan church today. But those cords can surely be broken by the conviction of the Holy Spirit and the righteous anger of a repentant church.

May our great God- the only true God and our Savior Jesus Christ grant it, Amen.

For Further Reading:

"Mix My Blood With the Blood of the Unborn" by Paul J. Hill http://www.armyofgod.com/PHillBookForward.html

"The Justifiable Use of Force" by Dan Holman http://www.armyofgod.com/danholman.html

Please address your comments and questions to Joe Pavone at: joe@calvinistcontender.org