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ESSAY 37
THE "VIOLENCE" MYTH
The ego defense mechanism of PROJECTION provides a very
intriguing study. Projection is "the unconscious mechanism
whereby one's own faults [immoral desires or acts] are seen
in other. . . [people] rather than in one's own personality."
[Philip L. Harriman, HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS.
(Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams and Co., 1969), p. 151]. In
other words, those who have a particulay moral weakness tend
to blame that weakness on others rather than on themselves!
The pro-abortion movement commonly accuses the pro-life
movement of being violent. Only a negligible number of pro-
lifers are actually guilty of violence. On the other hand,
torturing to death 31,000,000 preborn children is an un-
thinkable atrocity of enormous proportions. Cutting a live
preborn into pieces is unconscionable. Burning a live pre-
born to death with a saline solution is inhuman. Preborn
children experience pain at least by thirteen weeks of age.
[Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop, M.D., WHATEVER
HAPPENED TO THE HUMAN RACE?, pp. 40).
Accepting responsibility for such barbarism is too great
a threat to the egos of the pro-abortionists. Their minds
must go through torturous convulsions.
One way to stay sane from the guilt is to project their
irresponsibility on the innocent. In this case, the pro-
lifers are accused of irresponsibility. In one television
interview, an abortionist had the audacity to call a pro-life
minister a sociopath! (A sociopath is someone who can commit
some evil act like murder and not feel remorse). Now who is
the sociopath? Is he the abortionist or the one who is try-
ing to keep the abortionist from taking a life?
Another ego defense mechanism is COMPENSATION. Compen-
sation, according to Jung, is "the procedure in which one
system within the personality may make up for weakness in
another." (Harriman, HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS, p. 37).
Moral compensation is the mechanism used to atone for moral
failure or weakness in some area. In an attempt to try to
counterbalance moral failure in one area, extreme measures
may be taken in other areas. For instance, a Supreme Court
Justice may change from believing in capital punishment to
not believing in capital punishment. Pro-abortionists may
become fanatically driven into relatively unimportant
crusades such as championing "children's rights" (of child-
ren who survive abortion!). Other crusades may include pro-
moting animal rights, rescuing puppies from puppy mills,
saving whales, or preserving the environment:
Be a hero
Save a whale.
Save a baby
Go to jail.
Animals are important, but human beings are of much more
worth. Jesus said,
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not,
neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet
your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much
better than they? (Matthew 6:26).
And he said unto them, What man shall there be
among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it
fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay
hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a
man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to
do well on the sabbath days. (Matthew 12:11-12).
Likewise, the environment is important, but human beings
are infinitely more important. In fact, the earth is but the
temporary home of humanity. Peter prophesies that the world
as we know it will be destroyed and replaced by a better one:
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the
night; in the which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat, the earth also and the works
that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then
that all these things shall be dissolved, what
manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy con-
versation and godliness, Looking for and hasting
unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the
heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat? Neverthe-
less we, according to his promise, look for new
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth right-
eousness. (2 Peter 3:10-13).
At that time, violence and evil will be removed from mankind.
Until then, we must work for a better world!
END